Provision Healthcare has signed an agreement with Ion Beam Applications (IBA) for the purchase, installation and maintenance of a new proton therapy system at Tennessee’s first proton beam cancer center, located in Knoxville.
Siemens Healthcare debuted an array of imaging and informatics advances at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago Nov. 27 to Dec. 2.
CHICAGO--Though bone metastases in neuroendocrine tumors are usually sclerotic with increased bone volume, CT alone depicts only 43 percent of Ga-68-DOTATOC/DOTANOC-positive bone lesions, according to a retrospective analysis presented Nov. 29 at the Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
CHICAGO – Mechanistic imaging, which leverages imaging to understand the pathophysiology of disease, will project the specialty of radiology another leap forward, said A. Gregory Sorensen, MD, co-director of Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and CEO of Siemens Healthcare USA, during the Pendergrass New Horizons Lecture Nov. 28 at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Written by Douglas Page
The final diagnostic form the evolving hybrid PET/MR tree will take is uncertain, but it has already begun to blossom. Thus, the low-hanging clinical fruit has lured a number of medical centers to early adoption. Experts weigh in on the potential that PET/MR may hold for various neurologic, oncologic and cardiovascular conditions.
Siemens Healthcare has released a low-dose information center on the Internet for continuing education and information about dose reduction. Aimed at doctors and clinical personnel, the platform was designed to help keep professionals up-to-date on important factors in radiation reduction in radiology and nuclear medicine, according to Siemens.
In the era of health IT and meaningful use, many providers are looking for a one-stop shop to house all their cardiovascular reporting needs. However, in terms of the cardiovascular information system (CVIS), most users reported that their system was only 65 percent complete, and most are still looking for an all-in-one solution to meet their needs, according to an October KLAS report titled, “Will the Complete CVIS Please Stand Up?”
PETNET Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens Medical Solutions USA, has entered into a commercial agreement with Eli Lilly that grants Siemens PETNET the right to manufacture and distribute Lilly’s molecular imaging agent that is currently under review by the FDA for PET imaging.
The UK’s first Biograph mMR, a hybrid molecular MR system from Siemens Healthcare, has been delivered to the University College Hospital (UCH) Macmillan Cancer Centre in London.
The Molecular Imaging Biomarker Research Group of Siemens Medical Solutions USA has completed a Phase II multicenter clinical trial of its HX4 positron PET imaging biomarker, which is designed to detect hypoxia—a reduction in tissue oxygen levels—in solid tumors.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center has begun imaging patients on a whole-body simultaneous PET and MRI device (Siemens Healthcare, Biograph mMR) as a new weapon in its arsenal to diagnose and treat traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder among military service members and civilians.
The MRI-based attenuation correction (MRAC) method using atlas registration and pattern recognition (AT&PR) provides better overall PET quantification accuracy than the basic MR image segmentation approach, according to a study in the September issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
Written by Jim Brice
One of the variables with the effects of cancer is hypoxia, and a PET-based imaging technique may be capable of measuring and mapping it. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are focusing on two aspects of the investigational PET probe Cu-62 ATSM for hypoxia imaging.
Siemens Healthcare Molecular Imaging will unveil its Inveon Research Workplace (IRW) 4.0, the newest version of its image visualization and analysis software package for preclinical imaging applications, particularly for small animal imaging, at the World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) 2011, Sept. 7-10 in San Diego.
Bremen Central, a German private radiology practice offering MRI, nuclear medicine and PET/CT, has ordered a Siemens Biograph mMR.
While the developing technology is expensive, KLAS, the Orem, Utah-based research firm, found that providers utilizing PET/CT imaging technology save time and improve image resolution, based on a survey of providers. However, GE Healthcare edged out Philips and Siemens in KLAS’ first report on PET/CT vendors, titled “PET/CT 2011: New Technologies in Focus.”
Siemens Canada Healthcare has received a Health Canada medical device license for the Biograph mMR, a whole-body molecular MR with simultaneous MR and PET data acquisition.
Siemens Healthcare sponsored a series of symposia and showcased its most recent CT scanner and image interpretation software at this year’s meeting of the Society of Cardiovascular CT (SCCT) in Denver, July 14-17.
The Federal Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals rejected a bid by Saint-Gobain, a manufacturer of crystals for nuclear imaging, to overturn a District Court decision which found that Saint-Gobain had infringed on Siemens' patented PET technology.
Siemens Healthcare demonstrated a range of clinical and mobile imaging IT systems as part of its syngo suite at the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), June 2 through 5, in Washington, D.C.
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