The Magnetic Resonance section of the Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA), a division of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), has published its MS 1-2008 determination of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in diagnostic MRI.

A single screening ultrasound examination, added to a screening mammogram, increased detection of breast cancer compared with mammography alone, among women at increased risk of breast cancer, who also had dense breast tissue, according to study results from the American College of Radiology Imaging Network National Breast Ultrasound Trial (ACRIN 6666).

Nearly 28 percent of all visits to the pediatric emergency department (ED) could have been replaced with a more cost-effective internet doctor’s “visit,” according to a community-wide study conducted at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, N.Y., and presented at the 2008 Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in Honolulu.

Cytogen has reported an increase in net losses and total revenue for the first quarter of 2008, which ended March 31, and completed a merger agreement with EUSA Pharma, a Doylestown, Pa.-based pharmaceutical company.

The Nestlé Research Center in Lausanne, Switzerland, and GE Global Research, the General Electric’s centralized research and development organization, have partnered to scientifically assess associations between body composition, metabolic status, diet and lifestyle habits.

Using SPECT imaging, researchers have detected biochemical differences in the brains of individuals with generalized social anxiety disorder (also known as social phobia), providing evidence of a long-suspected biological cause for the dysfunction, according to a report in the May issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

ETIAM has added Open LiteBox Publisher Edition, which uses the Primera DiscPublisher to produce full-fidelity DICOM images on CDs and DVDs, to its CD/DVD portfolio.

Aspyra has contracted with Elite Lab Services, an independent clinical reference laboratory in Tyler, Texas, to provide Aspyra’s CyberLab Laboratory Information System (LIS).

The Rose Breast Center in Houston is now operational with EBM Pangea Mammo PACS, from EBM Technologies, a provider of web-enabled PACS and teleradiology products.

More than 30 radiology practice groups, freestanding imaging centers, hospitals and other medical imaging sites have selected Neurostar’s Virtual Radiology Network (VRN) to provide advanced image management and communications during the first quarter of 2008.

Coffey Family Medical Clinic in Oneida, Tenn. and Speight Family Medical in Atoka, Tenn., have selected NovaRad’s NovaPACS imaging technology, bringing the total number of facilities in the state using NovaRad’s RIS and PACS technologies to 10.

Tufts Medical Center in Boston has chosen Visage Imaging, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mercury Computer Systems, to provide a Visage CS Thin Client/Server system with the fully integrated Visage Cardiac Analysis Package.

iCAD has appointed Anthony F. Ecock to its board of directors, increasing the number of directors to eight.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Electronic Data Systems for approximately $13.9 billion.

Royal Philips Electronics has reached an agreement to acquire Dixtal Biomédica e Tecnologia, a Brazilian manufacturer of in-hospital patient monitoring, anesthesia, ventilation equipment and electrocardiogram (ECG for vital sign measurements.

Siemens Healthcare has developed Optimum Contrast software, a dual-energy application, to be unveiled this week at the annual international symposium on Multidetector-Row CT in Las Vegas.

Michael Binder has been named as the permanent head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, according to the National Post.

Jericho Specialty Imaging (JSI), an imaging facility in New Hyde Park, N.Y., Monday filed an antitrust suit against CareCore National (CCN), in which JSI alleges CCN, an outpatient diagnostic imaging utilization management services provider, attempted to deny the center network participation.

Lantheus Medical Imaging, a provider of diagnostic imaging, has revised the U.S. the boxed warning, warnings and contraindications sections of the prescribing information on the product label for Definity vial for (Perflutren Lipid Microsphere) injectable suspension.

The American Medical Association (AMA) outlined key steps to move forward with broader adoption of e-prescribing at a meeting with stakeholders held May 9 at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.