Digital X-Ray: Page 240

IDC receives U.S. patent for DR
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Canadian digital radiography developer Imaging Dynamics (IDC) has been awarded a U.S. patent for an invention that balances areas of varying density in a digital radiographic image.
May 21, 2008
Siemens takes U.K. order for Artis zee
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare of Erlangen, Germany, has received an order from Kent and Canterbury Hospital in the U.K. for a ceiling-mounted Artis zee x-ray angiography system.
May 20, 2008
Carestream donates equipment to China earthquake relief
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Carestream Health has donated $500,000 worth of mobile digital imaging systems to the Red Cross Society of China to help provide medical x-ray exams to victims of the earthquake in China's Sichuan province.
May 19, 2008
CAD helps residents identify lung nodules on DR
By Cynthia E. Keen
Computer-aided detection (CAD) software designed to detect lung nodules with chest digital radiography (DR) can help improve the reader performance of radiology residents. Researchers found that using CAD increased the sensitivity of residents by nearly 29 percentage points, while producing fewer than three false positives per image.
May 19, 2008
Viztek signs distribution deal with CMT
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging informatics firm Viztek has made an agreement with digital radiography developer CMT Medical Technologies for the exclusive U.S. distribution of CMT's SmartRad DR products.
May 15, 2008
Konica Minolta debuts ImagePilot CR
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Konica Minolta Medical Imaging USA has debuted a new computed radiography (CR) package called ImagePilot CR at this year's Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) meeting in Seattle, the company said.
May 14, 2008
FDA clears Fuji's portable digital x-ray unit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Fujifilm Medical Systems USA has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its portable digital x-ray system, the company reported.
May 14, 2008
GE, Biosense Webster to collaborate
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., plans to collaborate with partner Biosense Webster to develop a real-time ultrasound device for electrophysiology procedures, the company said.
May 14, 2008
Carestream nets Latvian CR mammography install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Carestream Health's authorized distributor for Latvia, NMS Grupa, has received an order for Carestream's computed radiography (CR) mammography package in the city of Riga, the Rochester, NY-based company said.
May 14, 2008
Del inks distribution contract
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Del Global Technologies, the parent company of Del Medical Systems Group, has signed a three-year distribution agreement with Vision Imaging Partners of Cherry Hill, NJ, the company said.
May 14, 2008
Covidien acquires handheld injector technology
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Covidien has signed an agreement with Pinyons Medical Technology of Park City, UT, to acquire all of Pinyons' assets related to manual injection and inflation devices for contrast media injections during angiography and interventional radiology procedures, the company announced.
May 13, 2008
Siemens expands AcuNav use
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare of Malvern, PA, plans to extend its alliance with Biosense Webster of Diamond Bar, CA, by opening up the Acuson AcuNav ultrasound catheter for use on third-party ultrasound systems, the company announced.
May 13, 2008
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