Chicago, Ill., USA – At the 99th Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago, Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today illustrated its technology leadership in medical imaging with the introduction of two fundamentally new developments: its Vereos PET/CT fully digital positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging system, and its IQon Spectral CT1 spectral detector-based computed tomography (CT) imaging system.

CHICAGO—Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors (RECIST) was designed to improve assessment of tumor response to treatment, but extracting RECIST data accurately can present a challenge to those new to the process.

CHICAGO—Premature birth may trigger developmental processes in the white matter (WM) of the brain that could put children at a higher risk for problems later in life, according to a study to be presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

Seno Medical Instruments, Inc., the company pioneering opto-acoustic imaging as a tool to improve the diagnosis of cancer, announced today that the first 100 patients have been enrolled into its Pivotal Study of Imagio™, a new opto-acoustic imaging system that may help women with benign breast masses avoid negative, invasive biopsies.

Today, Chinese government officials, key Elekta radiotherapy customers in China and members of Elekta's senior management inaugurated Elekta's Learning and Innovation Center (LINC) in Beijing. The three-story, 1,800sq m (19,375sq ft) education and training facility is equipped with Elekta radiation therapy systems and classrooms to educate oncology and neuroscience professionals as well as Elekta employees on the use of advanced radiotherapy solutions and workflows.

The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA), a division of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), today announced the publication of an amendment to interventional X-ray standard XR 27, X-ray Equipment for Interventional Procedures User Quality Control Mode.

Some of the earliest brain changes associated with the major genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have been identified in a study published on Nov. 25 in JAMA Neurology.

Pretreatment daily image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT), which can be efficiently performed, was beneficial to all patients at a radiology facility in Australia, according to a study published online Nov. 23 in the Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences.