OTTAWA – Health Canada has licensed the MOBILETT Elara Max, a mobile, X-ray imaging system from Siemens Healthineers. According to the company, the MOBILETT Elara Max is designed with easy-to-clean surfaces, with an antimicrobial coating, to reduce the risk of hospital acquired infections.
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LONDON, Ont. – New technology developed at Western University is providing an improved way for radiation oncologists to deliver treatment to women with gynaecological cancers, including vaginal, cervical and uterine cancer.
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BOSTON – For the time being, the only way for scientists to detect whether a person has CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, is to examine their brain tissue after death. But to get any closer to being able to treat or even prevent CTE, researchers must first find a way to diagnose it in the living.
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OTTAWA – The Canadian Association of Radiologists has announced the recipients of three awards. The CAR Gold Medal has been given to Dr. Bruce Forster (pictured left). The recipient of the CAR Young Investigator Award is Dr. Faisal Khosa, and the recipient of the CAR Distinguished Career Award is Dr. Giles Stevenson.
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MONTREAL – PENTAX Canada, Inc. has been awarded a contract by the MSSS (Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux) to deploy a clinical software solution for gastrointestinal endoscopy across Quebec. The endoPRO iQ software from Pentax Medical satisfies the mandate for a clinical solution that is proven and supported by a supplier with experience in the field of gastrointestinal endoscopy.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y.– Carestream Health has signed an agreement with Royal Philips to sell its healthcare information systems (HCIS) business to Philips. Carestream’s HCIS business unit provides imaging IT solutions to multi-site hospitals, radiology services providers, imaging centers and specialty medical clinics around the world.
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REGINA – A Saskatchewan radiologist whose work prompted a review of nearly 70,000 exams has lost a bid to have his defamation suit heard in the country’s top court. The Supreme Court of Canada says it won’t hear arguments from Dr. Darius Tsatsi (pictured), who had sued the province’s former health minister Don McMorris, the Sunrise Health Region and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan.
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EDMONTON – Computer scientists at the University of Alberta have developed a neural network that outperforms other state-of-the-art methods of identifying lung tumours from MRI scans.
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TORONTO – The federal government’s FedDev Ontario agency has announced a contribution of over $3.9 million for Conavi Medical Inc., a developer and manufacturer of leading-edge medical technologies, to support the expansion and reconfiguration of its production facility in Toronto.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. – NVIDIA has introduced Clara AI, a toolkit that includes 13 state-of-the-art classification and segmentation AIs, and software tools built for radiologists.
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