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Cardinal Health bids for new Lymphoseek sales rights
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Cardinal Health has signed a letter of intent with Navidea Biopharmaceuticals to acquire the right to sell Navidea's Lymphoseek radiopharmaceutical in the North American market.
September 5, 2016
Merry X-Ray buys New England distributor
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging equipment distributor Merry X-Ray has purchased Schiring Radiographic Imaging, a Vermont-based distributor of imaging services, supplies, and support.
September 5, 2016
Blue Earth reports milestone for Axumin PET tracer
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiopharmaceutical developer Blue Earth Diagnostics said that Northside Hospital in Atlanta is the first institution to perform a commercial administration of its Axumin PET radiopharmaceutical.
September 5, 2016
Canon, Virtual Imaging eye grid-free x-rays
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Canon USA and its Virtual Imaging subsidiary have unveiled Scatter Correction, a new software option designed to obviate the need for an antiscatter grid during certain types of x-ray examinations.
September 5, 2016
Laurel Bridge teams up with Strategic Radiology
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging software developer Laurel Bridge Software has formed a partnership with radiology consortium Strategic Radiology.
September 5, 2016
New bucky protector to be launched at RSNA
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Specialty x-ray and ultrasound equipment vendor Clear Image Devices has released a bucky faceplate protector that it will showcase at RSNA 2016 in Chicago.
September 5, 2016
FDA clears 2 clot retrieval devices for stroke
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it has allowed the marketing of two catheter-based clot retrieval devices from medical device company Concentric Medical as an initial therapy to reduce paralysis, speech difficulties, and other symptoms of ischemic stroke.
September 1, 2016
Indian radiologists suspend ultrasound services
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Unable to resolve its dispute with the government over enforcement of a law aimed at reducing gender-specific feticide, the Indian Radiological and Imaging Association said that ultrasound services nationwide are suspended indefinitely, according to an article by the Press Trust of India on India Today.
September 1, 2016
FDA publishes 510(k) guidelines for digital detectors
By Brian Casey
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published new guidelines for companies submitting 510(k) applications to the agency for solid-state digital detectors to be used in digital radiography systems.
September 1, 2016
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MRI finds something fishy in outbreak of brain infections
By Wayne Forrest
When more than 200 people in Singapore were afflicted simultaneously with group B streptococcal bacterium and acute central nervous system infections, Singaporean healthcare professionals had to act quickly. Their first move was to turn to diffusion-weighted MRI for answers.
September 1, 2016
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Spleen stiffness correlates with cirrhosis complication
By Erik L. Ridley
The progression of thrombocytopenia, or blood platelet deficiency, in cirrhotic patients is directly determined by pathophysiologic changes in the spleen that can be assessed on ultrasound elastography, according to research published in the September issue of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.
September 1, 2016
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Exact Imaging scores Chinese investment
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Canadian microultrasound technology developer Exact Imaging has received a $3 million Canadian ($2.3 million U.S.) investment from BioSciKin of China.
August 31, 2016
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