Toshiba America Medical Systems has installed its 800th Vantage 1.5T MRI system at Elkview General Hospital in Hobart, Okla.

GE Healthcare has introduced the Optima MR450w, a wide-bore MRI system.

Gene Barnett, MD, of the Brain Tumor and Neuro-Oncology Center at Cleveland Clinic, is conducting research that uses laser and MRI technology to heat and kill brain tumors.

Franklin & Seidelmann, a radiology interpretations provider, has appointed Clayton T. Larsen as senior vice president of marketing for the firm.

The Image Gently campaign has developed online teaching materials and checklists to help interventional radiology providers use the lowest dose necessary to perform interventional procedures on children.

Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius has released more than $25.7 million in grants to increase support services at U.S. health centers.

Although the Health IT Policy Committee adopted a number of recommendations at its meeting last week, some of the recommendations regarding EHR certification and adoption deadlines might be difficult, or impossible, to meet.

The integration of quality control (QC) procedures for image and data integrity in a digital environment not only improves patient care, it reduces both professional and administrative costs to a medical imaging practice.