Brainlab will launch its cloud-based image sharing and clinical planning platform at RSNA 2011.

Digital radiography provider IMIX Americas Inc. will introduce three digital detectors in its expanded line at RSNA 2011.

Sectra’s vice president of research and development expects lots of conversations about meaningful use, practice consolidation, and teleradiology.

PACS image management solutions provider Mach 7 will release at RSNA 11 the latest version of its enterprise imaging platform.

vRad's cloud-based teleradiology alliance model helps radiologists stay put, perform faster services, access subspecialists more easily.

Image analysis solutions provider iCAD Inc. will highlight several new features of their mammography CAD, MRI image analysis and colon CAD products.

Billing and practice management provider Medical Management Professionals Inc. will highlight at RSNA 2011 two new technologies aimed at improving the way practices communicate and exchange data.

Radiation dose monitoring provider Radimetrics has partnered with Montage, a data mining software provider, to provide tools for hospitals and imaging centers to analyze medical imaging data. The technology will be highlighted at RSNA 2011.

Hologic, Inc. will feature several imaging, sampling and diagnosis technologies at RSNA this year, including the recently approved Selenia Dimensions breast tomosynthesis system.

Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. will feature several imaging technologies at RSNA this year.

Digital X-ray provider Kubtec will highlight its recently FDA approved Digiview 250 digital radiography detector at RSNA 2011.

Image processing software developer Claron Technology will debut a cloud-based viewer and the latest release of its software development platform at RSNA 2011.

RIS/PACS vendor Intelerad Medical Systems will highlight new RIS soluion and other product enhancements at RSNA 2011.

Philips’ Ingenia 1.5 T and 3.0 T MR will get a spotlight in the Philips booth at RSNA 2011. Touted as the first ever digital broadband MR, the devices received FDA clearance in April 2011 and started shipping commercially in July.

Vizua will debut their cloud-based 3-D scan visualization platform at RSNA 2011.

Scott Smith, director of project management, CT, Philips Healthcare, describes low-dose CT as nearly a given in the marketplace now. What’s more important is maintaining the speed and quality of the image while using iterative reconstruction to keep the dose low.

Philips will highlight its newly released MicroDose Mammography System at RSNA 2011. The Philips unit will go head to head with other new entries in the mammography space including Hologic’s 3-D breast tomosynthesis product, Selenia® Dimensions, whole breast ultrasound from U-Systems, Dilon’s 6800 MBI scanner, and GE’s Discovery MB750b, a molecular breast imaging system.

Kjaya Medical will introduce a cloud-based sharing solution at RSNA 2011 called iShareScan.com.

Carestream will introduce at RSNA 2011 a new portal service that allows facilities to share images and information with authorized physicians, as well as its DRX-Revolultion Mobile X-Ray system as a works in progress.

In this podcast, Tom Gentile, president and CEO at GE Healthcare Systems, explains that “the whole focus of imaging is moving beyond the quality of the image.” Patient care, physician productivity and reimbursement take on a renewed focus in light of healthcare reform efforts internationally, he says.