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Radcal inks deal with Leeds Test Objects
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
X-ray measurement technology developer Radcal has signed a distributor agreement with medical imaging phantom manufacturer Leeds Test Objects.
November 1, 2011
Merge lands iConnect order
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Healthcare IT and advanced visualization developer Merge Healthcare has received a contract from nonprofit healthcare organization HealthPartners.
October 31, 2011
InfiMed gets clearance for i5 DR bundle
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
X-ray technology developer InfiMed has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for its i5 DR digital imaging software integrated with Samsung's SDX-4336CP portable flat-panel digital radiography (DR) detector.
October 31, 2011
Zecotek crystals make the grade
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Nuclear medicine firm Zecotek Photonics said that the newest version of its lutetium fine silicate scintillation crystals has achieved strong results in testing.
October 31, 2011
Software estimates motion effects for proton dose planning
By Jacqueline Hewett
Tumor motion due to respiration is a serious problem when it comes to ensuring that a scanned proton beam delivers the planned dose to a given target volume. Now, software simulating the delivery of a scanning proton beam to a moving lung tumor is resolving this problem.
October 31, 2011
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MRI, PET show cancer drug's effectiveness
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
MRI and PET scans indicate the effectiveness of a cancer drug developed by biopharmaceutical firm Halozyme Therapeutics, according to results presented at the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer, National Cancer Institute, and American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Brussels last week.
October 30, 2011
Kubtec's DigiView 250 gets FDA OK
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Digital x-ray firm Kub Technologies (Kubtec) has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its DigiView 250 digital radiography detector, which features complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology designed for low-dose and high-resolution imaging.
October 30, 2011
AECL's NRU renewed for 5 years
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission on October 27 renewed Atomic Energy of Canada's (AECL) license for its National Research Universal (NRU) nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ontario.
October 30, 2011
FDG-PET/CT helps patients with gram-positive bacteremia
By Wayne Forrest
Routine FDG-PET/CT imaging of patients with high-risk gram-positive bacteremia can reduce morbidity and mortality, and it does so in a cost-effective way, according to a study published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
October 30, 2011
AMIC seeks to buy Russian isotope firm
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical isotope producer Advanced Medical Isotope (AMIC) has hired Global TechInnovations to help in the acquisition of a Russian company that specializes in producing and selling radioactive isotopes for medical diagnostic and therapeutic uses.
October 27, 2011
House bill would stop MPPR imaging cuts
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A bill that would prohibit a looming multiple procedure payment reduction (MPPR) to Medicare payments for the professional component of CT, MRI, and ultrasound exams received by the same patient, on the same day, in the same setting, in 2012 was introduced on Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives.
October 27, 2011
FDA clears 2 Hologic MRI coils
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Women's imaging firm Hologic announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared two of its MRI coils.
October 27, 2011
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