Diagnostics

THUNDER BAY, Ont. – Radialis Inc., a joint venture of the Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute and Lakehead University, has received approval for marketing its positron tomography imaging device from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The company can now sell its low-dose Radialis PET imager, which focuses on tumours in specific organs, to U.S. organizations. Read More

TORONTO – Lighthouse Medical Imaging (LMI) is one of a growing number of imaging facilities that are adopting a proactive, AI-based screening system for osteoporosis. LMI is using a solution from Toronto-based medical device company 16 Bit, which was founded by two radiologists. Read More

ST. JOHN’S, NL – Sparrow BioAcoustics announced it has received clearance from the State Service of Ukraine for Medicines and Drugs Control for its Stethophone app to be used by patients and their families, as well as by medical professionals. “Sparrow BioAcoustics is proud to receive its first full approval for patients to use Stethophone in Ukraine,” said Mark Opauszky (pictured), CEO of Sparrow. Read More

RED DEER, Alta. – Community lab services will be going back to Alberta’s provincial labs, less than a year after Dynalife Medical Labs expanded its community lab services beyond the Edmonton region. Last week in Red Deer, Health Minister Adriana LaGrange (pictured) announced an agreement in principle had been signed to sell all of Dynalife’s staff, equipment, operations and property in Alberta to AHS and AHS-owned Alberta Precision Labs (APL) by the end of the year. Read More

WINNIPEG – A postdoctoral fellow who began his academic career at The University of Winnipeg is playing an integral role in the development of a next-generation intraoperative MRI (iMRI) system that is more user-friendly for neurosurgeons and more affordable for hospitals. Read More

TORONTO – Synaptive Medical has received $900,000 in support from the Ontario government through the Ontario Together Fund. This funding will support Synaptive Medical’s $2.8 million project to expand manufacturing and research and development activities related to the company’s head-only Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system. Read More

NEW YORK – AWS is excited to announce the general availability of AWS HealthImaging, a purpose-built service that helps builders develop cloud-native applications that store, analyze, and share medical imaging data at petabyte-scale. HealthImaging ingests data in the DICOM P10 format. It provides APIs for low-latency retrieval, and purpose-built storage. Read More

TORONTO – A new imaging suite at Toronto Western Hospital will soon be used to help UHN clinicians and researchers locate and map hard to reach parts of the human brain. The CenteR for Advancing Neurotechnological Innovation to Application (CRANIA) recently unveiled a key component of its research technologies – a state-of-the-art 0.5 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. Read More

OTTAWA – Convergent Imaging Solutions, a leader in workflow optimized medical image fusion and nuclear medicine software, announced that it has won the public tender for nuclear medicine processing software at Hôpital Montfort, in Ottawa. Read More