Philips Healthcare has opened its first diagnostic imaging equipment manufacturing facility in South America, an MR and CT facility located in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

Ashva Technologies has released an upgraded version of its DICOM Workstation, RADiON 2.0.

  Breast MRI is showing double-digit growth in 2008 and is one of the fastest growing procedures in the MR departments, according to a newly released imaging market guide from Arlington Medical Resources, a provider of market research for the pharmaceutical and diagnostic imaging industries.

Canadian researchers have used 3D MRI to accurately detect bleedingwithin the walls of diseased carotid arteries, suggesting the techniquemay prove to be a useful screening tool for patients at high risk forstroke, according to a study published in this months issue of Radiology.

Sentinelle Medical, a manufacturer of MRI coils and interventionalsoftware, has received CE Mark approval to begin marketing theSentinelle Vanguard Breast MR Auxiliary Table in Europe.

Noninvasive imaging of the left atrial wall with MRI is a recentadvancement and a powerful tool to evaluate injury related toradiofrequency energy delivery during atrial fibrillation (AF)ablation, according to a study in the Oct. 7 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Dedicated breast MRI system technology developer Aurora Imaging Technology has placed the second of its 1.5-Tesla breast MRI systems at Breast Care Specialists of Atlanta.

BOSTONFor patients whose breast cancer has spread to their lymphnodes, a MRI scan could replace exploratory surgery as the preferredmethod for determining whether radiation therapy is necessary to treattheir disease, according to a study to be presented Sunday at the 50thannual meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology andOncology (ASTRO).