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DICOM Grid Closes $5M in Expansion Financing for DG Suite

Phoenix, AZ-based DICOM Grid closed a $5 million round of expansion financing today that the company hopes will allow for the expansion of its DG Suite cloud-based imaging platform.

NIH Awards $2.6M to PET/CT Researchers with Prostate Biomarker Technique

Radiologists at Thomas Jefferson University were awarded a five-year, $2.6 million NIH grant to develop a new PET/CT technique that could eliminate the need for confirmation biopsies in the detection of prostate cancer.

Announcing the Top 5 Imaging IT Projects of 2012

Innovation in imaging IT will take center stage at SIIM 2012, when the top five imaging IT projects of 2012 will be presented to convention attendees.

New Software Module Could Shave Seven Weeks off Research Results Reporting

A new QA compliance module could help reduce errors in clinical data submission and accelerate the speed at which imaging data for medical trials is processed.

VirtualScopics Posts Q1 Financials

Quantitative imaging provider VirtualScopics, Inc. announced its financials today.

In WI, NNSA Kickstarts Domestic Isotope Manufacturing with $10M Grant

Since the summer of 2010, when travel disruptions from an ash-spewing Icelandic volcano exposed the fragility of the domestic isotope supply, researchers and policymakers alike have been working on a plan to stabilize global production of technetium-99m.

Gate Stroke Center Study Finds Toshiba’s Aquilion ONE CT Improves Acute Stroke Diagnoses

Kaleida Health’s Gates Stroke Center (GSC) at the Gates Vascular Institute in Buffalo, N.Y. recently completed the second phase of its study analyzing the patient and fiscal benefits of using Toshiba America Medical System, Inc.’s Aquilion ONE CT system in diagnosing acute stroke.

Laxative-Free CT Colonography Shows Promise, but Needs Fine-Tuning

Laxative-free CT colonography might be on its way to greater adoption, say researchers at Harvard Medical School, but the technology still has some holes in its game.

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Health Imaging
Nearly $800,000 settlement offered to family of man who died during MRI exam

The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.

Cardiovascular Business
Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

Cardiovascular Business
‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.