'TeraRecon, Inc. (www.terarecon.com),a leader in advanced visualization and decision support solutions for medical imaging and a premier partner of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), and Agfa HealthCare released the first cardiac ...'

'Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world's most powerful soft X-ray laser. 'Transparent aluminium' previously only existed in science fiction, featuring in the movie Star Trek IV, but the real ...'

'The outgoing director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Dr Mohammed ElBaradei, has praised South Africa for making 'the right choice' regarding nuclear power, by scrapping its nuclear weapons and focusing on the peaceful uses of ...'

'Proton therapy -- which uses beams of the subatomic particles to treat cancer -- is a hot topic at this year's American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) meeting, which takes place from July 26 - 30 in Anaheim, CA. Ways to make the ...'

'A study based on computer modeling of radiation risk suggests that widespread screening for the buildup of calcium in the arteries using computed tomography scans would lead to an estimated 42 additional radiation-induced cancer cases per 100,000 men ...'

'iCRco, the Innovative CR Company just completed it's first install of an iCR3600 computed radiography system aboard the Coast Guard Cutter HEALY (WAGB - 20) prior to its voyage on July 7th, 2009. The digital radiography system was installed on the ...'

'The Saskatchewan provincial government alongside the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) have come together to establish a CA$500 million, 10 megawatts research nuclear reactor to produce medical isotopes. In 1949 - cobalt-60 treatment was tried for the ...'

'Using cardiac CT scans on low risk chest pain patients can reduce costs and shorten the length of hospital stays, researchers in Seattle said. A cardiac CT, or computed tomography, is much less expensive and time consuming than the traditional ...'

'Some might say the status quo of orthopedic imaging remained relatively undisturbed for the better part of the 1980s, and perhaps even the '90s, but in a matter of just a few years, a relatively new hybrid of molecular imaging and computed tomography, ...'

'The new StarBurst® XLi-Enhanced Semi-Flex probe from AngioDynamics (NASDAQ: ANGO) is the first radiofrequency ablation (RFA) device specifically designed to deliver a 7cm ablation of a tumor in a single placement during Computed Tomography-aided ...'