Molecular imaging vendor Positron has inked a contract for its dedicated cardiac PET scanner with a New York imaging center.  

GE Healthcare is touting two new clinical studies that offer encouraging results for its AdreView radiopharmaceutical in heart failure patients at risk for cardiac death, disease progression, or cardiac arrhythmias.  

Molecular imaging vendor Positron expects the shift from cardiac SPECT to cardiac PET imaging will accelerate now that the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.  

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $1 million grant to Rice University in Houston and the Texas Heart Institute to research cell-tracking nanotube technology that could make MRI up to 40 times more sensitive and help guide adult stem cells to repair damaged hearts.  

Nuclear medicine society SNM has raised significant concerns about proposed reimbursement rules for imaging procedures, announced by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on October 30.  

Philips Healthcare has announced a contract to replace a siloed legacy PACS at Lakeland Regional Medical Center in central Florida.  

Quantification software provider Medis Medical Imaging Systems has released the 7.2 version of QAngio XA for quantitative analysis of peripheral and coronary vessels in angiograms.  

Ultrasound image management firm Digisonics has announced that its DigiView image management and reporting software now offers evaluation of carotid intima-media thickness.  

Visus USA has introduced a new version of its enterprise PACS offering, JiveX.  

GE Healthcare has expanded the capabilities of its Logiq E9 ultrasound system.  

PACS vendor ScImage has received a medical device license from Health Canada to distribute its PicomEnterprise radiology and cardiology PACS offering.  

Carestream Health has introduced a new Web-based cardiology PACS offering.