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Saskatchewan cyclotron up and running

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The Saskatchewan Centre for Cyclotron Sciences in Canada is now operational and has begun shipments of the radioisotope fluorine-18 for PET/CT scans being performed at Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon.

June 23, 2016

What Brexit means for imaging

By Steve Holloway

The U.K. has decided to leave the European Union. What does that mean for imaging? Great uncertainty, and nothing in the European imaging sector will be quite the same again, Stephen Holloway writes in a monthly market trends column.

June 23, 2016

SNMMI gets nod from CMS for appropriate use criteria

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) as a provider of appropriate use criteria for advanced diagnostic imaging studies.

June 23, 2016

Median teams with Microsoft for imaging analytics

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

French imaging software developer Median Technologies and Microsoft have formed a joint global initiative to apply big-data analytics for processing and analyzing medical images.

June 22, 2016

Vital Images upgrades Vitrea software

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Advanced visualization firm Vital Images is unveiling version 7 of its Vitrea software at this week's Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography annual meeting in Orlando, FL.

June 22, 2016

IBM launches initiative to advance Watson in imaging

By Erik L. Ridley

Moving closer to commercializing its Watson artificial intelligence technology in imaging applications, IBM announced on Wednesday that it's teaming up with a broad spectrum of partners to help train, test, develop, and deploy Watson in a wide range of organ systems and disease states.

June 21, 2016