Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. has partnered with United Medical Instruments (UMI), a worldwide provider of new and pre-owned ultrasound systems, parts and transducers, to sell Toshiba's ultrasound systems to the private physician office and clinic market in the United States.

Despite a national mandate prohibiting gender-based pregnancy terminations, ultrasound clinics in Dehli, India have found themselves squarely in the middle of an antique cultural practice that poses a very real threat to national population statistics.

Three hospitals using two separate PACS are a recipe for headaches, and Steven C. Horii, MD, is determined to find relief. As clinical director in the Medical Informatics Group at Philadelphia’s University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Horii wants his enterprise imaging platform to boost crucial connectivity, while maintaining most of the

The modern picture archiving and communication system (PACS) has done an amazing job of organizing a massive amount of digital information. However, PACS manufacturers focused so much energy on archiving and communicating that the mechanics of moving that data often fell by the wayside.

Brian M. Barbeito, MBA, MSHA, heads a radiology group that deals primarily with hospitals, but his Memphis-based company, Mid-South Imaging & Therapeutics, also covers numerous outside-read businesses, which offer outpatient imaging services. Getting the right images to the right radiologists has not been easy, but technology has helped. Rob Sumter

The FDA has cleared an MRI-guided radiation therapy system developed by the Cleveland, OH-based ViewRay, Inc. for premarket notification.

A late-afternoon explosion at a Philadelphia imaging center Tuesday may be the result of an electrical or gas overload at one of its strip-mall neighbors, according to the company president.

Through the use of contrast-enhanced MRI, researchers believe they can determine the likelihood of breast conservation in cancer patients with greater accuracy than through conventional clinical examination.