Medical Imaging Business Week

BioAdvance - Biotech greenhouse portfolio companies announce major developments

Elbit Medical Imaging, Ltd. - Israeli company announces dividend of approximately $28 million

eResearchTechnology, Inc. - ECG services company signs $12.4 million in cardiac monitoring contracts since last update

InSight Health Services Corp. - Imaging services company announces exchange offer for $300 million of senior notes

JMAR Technologies, Inc. - Imaging, analysis equipment developer listed on new nanotechnology index

Viking Systems Inc. - Laparoscopic 3-D vision systems maker announces closing of $3 million bridge financing

Biophan Technologies, Inc. - Biomedical technology maker reports on development of MRI related devices

Biophan Technologies, Inc. - Imaging technology developer appoints Darryl L. Canfield to post of chief financial officer

CAS Medical Systems, Inc. - U.S. FDA grants 510(k) marketing clearance for near-infrared spectroscopy brain oximeter

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland - Sympathetic stimulation can reveal congenital long-QT syndrome

Centre d'Exploration et de Recherche Medicales par Emission de Positons, Lyon - Ability of MET-PET to diagnose dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumors assessed

Cleveland Clinic Foundation - Acute preoperative weight loss improved surgical and postsurgical outcomes of LRYGBP

Cleveland Clinic Foundation - Stress and ischemia associated genes are upregulated in nephrectomized kidneys

Consortium for Supercomputing in Research, Rome - Spectroscopic signatures for different forms of topotecan studied

Del Global Technologies Corp. - Imaging company acquires full ownership of its majority-owned Villa Sistemi Medicali subsidiary

Deutsch Herzzentrum Berlin - Modified short-axis view is better for followup of Tetrology of Fallot repair

Digirad Corp. - Imaging company announces successful completion of clinical testing for mobile Cardius-3 Camera

Flinders Medical Center, Bedford Park - Weight loss 3 months after LAGB may be due to continued loss of visceral adipose tissue

Gamma Medica-Ideas - Yale researchers use imaging system in heart disease study, publish results in Circulation

Genmab, A/S - Encouraging responses reported with HuMax-CD4 in noncutaneous T-cell lymphoma

Given Imaging, Ltd. - PillCam SB designated as first-line diagnostic tool under revised Tennessee Medicare policy

Guided Therapy Systems - Miniaturized ultrasound arrays proposed for interstitial ablation and imaging

Harvard University - Conversion of ischemic brain tissue into infarction increases with age

Hospital University of 12 Octubre, Madrid - Helical CT and FDG-PET used to identify lymph node mediastinal metastases

ImageXpres Corporation - Imaging, print corporation acquires PRG, signs intent letter to merge with telecom company

King's College, London - Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging defines hemodynamic function

Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine - Pitfalls of using FDG-PET for the diagnosis of bone metastases identified

Lifeline Biotechnologies, Inc. - Medical technology company reports marketing progress of microendoscope for breast cancer

Mayo Clinic & Mayo Foundation - Ultrasonographic carotid artery screening suggested in long-term head and neck cancer survivors

Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale - Article reviews impact of MDCT on routine thoracic imaging

McMaster University, Hamilton - Studies describe new findings in Surgical Technology research

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York - Magnetic resonance imaging is useful in detecting occult cancer after negative mammograms

Memorial University of Newfoundland - Researchers' data advance imaging research

Mergers & Acquisitions - Magellan Health Services acquires National Imaging Associates

Mid American Heart Institute, Kansas City - Race influences health status outcomes after CV events