Product News: Page 550

Dedicated brain market opens new door for SPECT scanner
By Robert Bruce
A Massachusetts company is hoping that renewed interest in functional brain imaging could help it find a market for a novel SPECT technology it developed decades ago, before the arrival of CT and MRI decimated the nuclear medicine brain imaging market.
March 12, 2001
Hitachi adds Missouri Baptist as customer
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Hitachi Medical Systems America has sold an Airis II open MRI system to Missouri Baptist Medical Center, a 494-bed hospital in St. Louis. Installation of Airis II -- the first open MR system for Missouri Baptist-- has been completed, according to Twinsburg, OH-based Hitachi.
March 11, 2001
Italian film company Ferrania announces rebirth at ECR show
By Brian Casey
VIENNA - An old face with a new look returned to the European radiology scene at this week’s European Congress of Radiology. Italian vendor Ferrania Imaging Technologies is relaunching its corporate brand with a line of x-ray film, printers, and PACS software.
March 4, 2001
Siemens emphasizes workflow at ECR
By Brian Casey
VIENNA - Big iron might have made medical imaging what it is today, but software is its future. The trend was clear in Siemens Medical Solutions' European Congress of Radiology booth, where the German company highlighted the ability of its Syngo workstation software to improve efficiency in radiology departments.
March 4, 2001
RamSoft integrates with medQ
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PACS developer RamSoft has integrated its Ultrapro PACS software with information management technology from medQ to create an integrated RIS and PACS offering, according to Toronto-based RamSoft.
February 26, 2001
ISS sells 10 image-guided surgery robots in Japan
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Surgical robotics manufacturer Integrated Surgical Systems (ISS) has sold 10 of its Robodoc surgical assistant systems to Japan's Tokushukai Medical.
February 25, 2001
Vital Images releases new Vitrea 2 software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Three-dimensional software developer Vital Images has released version 2.2 of its Vitrea 2 3-D software, as well as Vscore with AutoGate coronary artery calcium screening software.
February 21, 2001
Supersmall MR contrast agents could be a huge success
By Shalmali Pal
Hunting for the ideal contrast agent to use during intraoperative MR imaging, German neuroradiologists from the University of Heidelberg Medical School have reported encouraging results with MIONs, or monocrystalline iron oxide nanoparticles.
February 21, 2001
Wireless MD teams with Fujitsu
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
February 19, 2001
Amicas broadens PACS focus with new archive, workstation
By Erik L. Ridley
Amicas has traditionally focused on the ancillary PACS technology of image distribution. But the latest release of Amicas.net is also geared toward the radiology department, with a new archive and radiology-focused viewer.
February 14, 2001
Ultrasound bubbles over into therapy
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
Conventional wisdom holds that when you hit the jackpot, you take your winnings and leave. Dr. Evan Unger, president and CEO of ImaRx Therapeutics in Tucson, AZ, doesn't seem to pay much heed to that type of thinking, especially when it comes to developing his line of cutting-edge therapeutic agents.
February 11, 2001
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Siemens to bundle StorageTek archiving with its PACS
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Storage Technology representatives said they have signed an image and data archive service and support agreement with Siemens Medical Solutions.
February 6, 2001
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