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Carestream reports DRX sales in SC
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Carestream Health said it has installed 15 of its DRX imaging systems at AnMed Health in Anderson, SC, over the past five years.
July 7, 2014
Brainlab debuts Right Brain Foundation
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Brainlab has launched the Right Brain Foundation, which aims to provide medical technology and education to selected hospitals and public institutions in Southeast Asia, Africa, Central America, and South America.
July 7, 2014
Biotronik reports DX milestone
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Biotronik said that the first U.S. patients have received full-body MRI scans while implanted with its DX implantable cardioverter-defibrillator system.
July 7, 2014
GE teams with Tesla for 7T MRI
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare is collaborating with Tesla Engineering of West Sussex, U.K., on the production of 7-tesla MRI magnets.
July 7, 2014
USPSTF still against US carotid artery stenosis screening
By Erik L. Ridley
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has finalized its draft recommendation advising against the use of widespread ultrasound screening for asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis as a tool for stroke prevention.
July 7, 2014
New CMS payment cuts skip imaging to focus on radiation therapy
By Kate Madden Yee
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released proposed payment rates for 2015. The agency's all-powerful gaze skipped over medical imaging to land once again on radiation oncology, which is being targeted for additional payment cuts.
July 7, 2014
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DIIG installs CT, x-ray systems
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Diagnostic Imaging International (DIIG) has completed the purchase of a CT scanner and an x-ray system for its Schuylkill Medical Imaging location.
July 6, 2014
Toshiba rolls out new angio system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Toshiba America Medical Systems has launched a new x-ray angiography system for interventional cardiology.
July 6, 2014
CMS proposes x-ray, rad therapy policy changes
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has included changes to some radiation therapy and x-ray services policies as part of its July 3 proposed rule for the 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.
July 6, 2014
Study: Proton beam therapy tops IMRT
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Proton beam therapy can provide significantly better disease-free survival and tumor control for patients with head and neck cancer than intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), according to a literature review published online June 27 in Lancet Oncology.
July 6, 2014
Automated algorithms help spot change in serial CT exams
By Erik L. Ridley
Most PACS vendors don't include automatic deformable image registration algorithms in their workstation software. But they should, as these can sharply reduce the time it takes for radiologists to match lung nodule locations on serial lung CT scans, according to researchers from Stony Brook Medicine.
July 6, 2014
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US embolism screening; new PET tracer for brain tumors; telerad in Turkey
By Brian Casey
July 2, 2014
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