July 18, 2018
TORONTO – St. Joseph’s Hospital announced that a transformative $10 million donation by Myron and Berna Garron (pictured) will be used to purchase two new MRI machines. The investment will be used to replace an existing MRI machine that has been running 24/7, and with two scanners, will double the hospital’s capacity to 30,000 MRI tests a year.
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July 3, 2018
TORONTO – A PET/MR scanner, installed in the basement of the Toronto General Hospital, is a rare imaging commodity in Canada – there are only three other machines of this sort that are operational across the country. Even though the system in Toronto is for experimental purposes, it has already started to provide astounding clinical benefits. In trials with patients, the PET/MR scanner has been able to find very small tumours, which flash on the display screen like hotspots. Read More
July 3, 2018
LONDON, ONT. – The latest wave in breast imaging technology has arrived at St. Joseph’s Health Care London and is making a significant difference in precision and confidence in diagnosing or ruling out breast cancer. Contrast-enhanced mammography and tomosynthesis (three-dimensional mammography), are both now in use by St. Joseph’s Breast Care Program. Read More
June 20, 2018
OAKVILLE, Ont. – Siemens Healthineers has introduced the new Atellica 1500 Automated Urinalysis System – an automated microscopy device that can analyze 106 - 240 samples per hour, and saves results and images directly to a computer database.
Atellica 1500 combines two distinct systems – the CLINITEK Novus Automated Urine Chemistry Analyzer and the UAS800 Urine Sediment Analyzer into one completely-automated unit.
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June 7, 2018
EDMONTON – The Cross Cancer Clinic’s new PET-MR scanner – the first in Western Canada – will give physicians and scientists a better picture of how diseases and treatments are working in the human body.
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June 7, 2018
MONTREAL – Intelerad Medical Systems, a leader in enterprise workflow solutions, has announced the launch of its Artificial Intelligence initiative, along with the expansion of its partnership with Blackford to offer Blackford Platform, a single platform to access and manage multiple medical image analysis applications.
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May 9, 2018
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Carestream Health has received a Health Canada Class III License for its CARESTREAM OnSight 3D Extremity System (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvd-1WxVzKs). The OnSight 3D Extremity System is now available in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and other countries.
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May 9, 2018
CALGARY – Mayfair Diagnostics, a group of diagnostic imaging clinics in Western Canada, has introduced a state-of-the-art mammography technology that gives patients the option to adjust their own level of breast compression during their mammogram.
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April 25, 2018
HALIFAX – New data released by CADTH shows a rise in the number of diagnostic imaging machines that are available across Canada, with the sharpest increases in Ontario and Quebec.
Information on six types of medical imaging modalities was provided voluntarily by public and private healthcare administrators through CADTH’s second biennial Canadian survey.
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March 29, 2018
Interior Health may be the only major jurisdiction in Canada that has created a region-wide PACS that consolidates the medical images of both hospitals and community imaging clinics. Read More