Oct. 24: United Imaging Healthcare debuts whole-body PET/CT scanner developed with the University of California, Davis.

In a letter to providers, the agency recommends Philips clients in the affected product category consider any of three steps to cope with the interruption. 

Two technologies of interest to medical imagers, both imports from across the Atlantic, have become available to U.S. healthcare providers.

An imaging software supplier in Australia has received the FDA’s OK to market a new 3D visualization product in the U.S.

A new scholarship looks to help address shorthanded staffing in facilities that employ mammography technologists. And a fresh acquisition will bring RT e-learning to a widely dispersed student body.

More than four-fifths of healthcare provider organizations are shorthanded of allied health professionals, and the job title with the most unfilled positions in the category is radiologic technologist.

Virtual reality vendors XRHealth (software) and HTC Vive (hardware) introduce glasses-based system for distracting patients undergoing MRI exams and other anxiety-provoking medical procedures (Oct. 19).

The academics turn the tables in median starting salaries, edging out private-practice interventional radiologists $380,000 to $374,000 while also working fewer weekly call days.