Imaging News

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif – Skin conditions are among the most common kind of ailment globally, just behind colds, fatigue, and headaches. The enormous case workload and a global shortage of dermatologists have forced sufferers to seek out general practitioners, who tend to be less accurate than specialists when it comes to identifying conditions. Read More

OTTAWA – Health Canada has licensed the SOMATOM go.All and SOMATOM go.Top computed tomography (CT) systems from Siemens Healthineers. These additions to the company’s go. CT platform expand its concept of patient-centric mobile workflow, which is controlled via tablet and remote, into advanced clinical fields and applications such as cardiology, CT-guided intervention, and dual energy CT. Read More

MONTREAL – The research project titled Tête première (head first), led by the team of neurologist Louis De Beaumont (pictured), who is also a researcher at the CIUSSS du Nord-de-l’Île-de-Montréal research centre and a professor in the Department of Surgery at Université de Montréal, will assess the brain’s capacities to sustain blows to the head during a full university football season. Read More

BURLINGTON, Ont. – FedDev Ontario has contributed $2.1 million to Harmonic Medical Inc. to accelerate commercialization of its innovative, non-invasive ultrasound therapy equipment used to treat uterine fibroids. Using focused ultrasound technology, Harmonic Medical Inc. has developed a safe and effective system to treat uterine fibroids without surgery. Read More

EDMONTON – A University of Alberta spinoff company is hoping its new technology to analyze ultrasound images will make diagnosing health problems possible even from remote locations. Read More

TORONTO – The first-ever patient radiation therapy treatments generated with machine learning in the RayStation treatment planning system (TPS) have been conducted. Patients with localized prostate cancer are being treated with this unique technology at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, as part of a comprehensive evaluation study. Read More

HALIFAX – Densitas Inc., a leading provider of AI solutions for digital mammography, announced that it has won a procurement of its densitas densityai software for deployment in up to 24 breast cancer screening clinics across Germany that will provide breast density measurements at point of care to identify women for supplemental breast cancer screening as part of the DIMASOS 2 Trial. Read More

VICTORIA – The B.C. government has announced the new Gordon Heys Family PET/CT (positron emission tomography/computed tomography) scanner suite is open at the B.C. Cancer Centre in Victoria. In a news release, the province said the project cost $6.5 million and is the first publicly funded scanner outside of the Lower Mainland. Read More

SURREY, B.C. – As the SFU ImageTech Lab rounds its first year of operations, Professor Ryan D’Arcy, who played a pivotal role in establishing the world-class medical imaging facility, is stepping down as the lab’s founder to focus on recent breakthroughs in his brain imaging and neurotechnology research. Read More

TORONTO – The Vector Institute, an independent, not-for-profit research institute focused on machine learning, has announced a partnership with the University Health Network (UHN) and the University of Waterloo (UWaterloo) to enhance radiology diagnoses with AI. Read More