Aspect Imaging, the world leading developer of compact high-performance magnets, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Company's M2™ compact MRI system for diagnostic imaging of the wrist.

Elekta (NSE: EKTAb) and Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) announced today that The Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital (NKI-AVL, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) has signed an agreement to join a research group to advance the development of ground-breaking image-guided treatment technology for cancer care.

Nearly 2,000 U.S. troops have had to undergo an amputation due to injuries sustained in Iraq or Afghanistan since the respective starts of those conflicts. While each of those injuries is gruesome and tragic, the advances in medicine brought about by their treatment are making their way back home and stand to help victims of the bombings at the Boston Marathon, according to an AP report.

HealthTrust Purchasing Group (HealthTrust), one of the largest health care supply contracting companies in the United States, has awarded IRadimed Corporation a contract for its MRidium™ MRI Infusion Pump Systems.

The Royal Liverpool University Hospital’s interventional radiology department has recently invested in two SonoSite EDGE® hand-carried ultrasound systems to assist diagnosis and treatment of disease.

To help reduce complications and improve the accuracy and safety of interventional procedures, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. extends AplioTM 500’s Smart Fusion ultrasound technology to MR.

Older women with an extended period of time between their last mammogram and breast cancer diagnosis were at an increased risk for breast cancer mortality, suggesting a role for continued mammography screening among women aged 75 years and older, according to data presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2013, held in Washington, D.C., April 6-10.

As radiation exposure continues to grab headlines and patients ply physicians with questions, more providers are transitioning to low-dose imaging. However, the road to low-dose CT is riddled with potholes.