Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR) of Palo Alto. Calif. yesterday announced that its ARIA® software for electronic medical records (EMR) and clinical practice management in radiation oncology has been certified for clinics that can now use it to qualify for federal funding under the U.S.HITECH Act.

Breast MRI has emerged as a powerful new tool in the fight against breast cancer. It has found wide acceptance in the past 10 years, and it appears to be one of the most rapidly growing medical studies. When breast MRI is combined with mammography and breast ultrasound, we are now able to find breast cancer at its earliest stages, when the disease

Marking the debut of the first equipment to enable simultaneous whole-body acquisition of data from magnnetic resonance (MR) and positron emission tomography (PET), Siemens Healthcare has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Biograph mMR hybrid PET/MRI scanner.

Optison ™ (Perflutren Protein-Type A Microspheres Injectable Suspension, USP), a diagnostic ultrasound contrast agent designed by GE Healthcare to improve suboptimal echocardiograms, may be used without concern about its affects on pulmonary arterial systolic pressure (PASP) or pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR), according to results of a study

Health IT professionals have had their hands full in recent months, scrambling to understand how best to meet the provisions of meaningful use in order to capitalize on American Recovery and Reinvestment Act incentives—and, eventually, to avoid CMS payment penalties. One area affected by meaningful use that often goes unconsidered, however, is

With 26 radiologists on staff and 11 locations in the San Diego, California, area, Imaging Healthcare Specialists (IHS) is the largest provider of outpatient imaging services in San Diego county; its reach extends into neighboring Riverside County as well. Like any busy radiology practice, IHS has a strong focus on MRI services, with 13 MRI systems

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) may serve as an early and objective indicator of autism, according to a study slated for publication in the August issue of Radiology. Already posted online, the study was conducted by researchers at Columbia University in New York City, who used the technique to document language impairment in autistic

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared for use Toshiba America Medical Systems’ extra-large knee array coil for the Vantage TitanTM MR system. Toshiba claims to be the first diagnostic imaging vendor to offer an extra-large knee coil with a 22-cm interior diameter for MR imaging.