Medical imaging vendors ramp up for radiology's big show: RSNA 2022

Well, we’re in the final stretch before RSNA 2022 begins on November 27. The last full work week before the Thanksgiving holiday was a busy one, as medical imaging vendors scrambled to finalize partnerships, put the finishing touches on new product launches, and get their marketing materials in order before the big show begins.

RSNA said it expects some 600 vendors to be exhibiting at #RSNA22 . And while traffic at RSNA 2021 was suppressed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, expectations are that this year's meeting will be closer to the prepandemic norm.

Some of this week’s top highlights in the world of medical imaging include the launch of two new MRI scanners from 西门子医疗 as part of the company’s Shape 23 online event on November 15. The scanners included what the company called its most powerful 3-tesla MRI system yet, and a 7-tesla scanner that Siemens said would push the boundaries of what MRI can do in both research and clinical use.

Another major multimodality OEM – GE医疗 – also released big news during the week as the company said it was making an $80 million investment in a contrast manufacturing plant in Norway. The move was seen as a step toward bolstering the supply of iodinated contrast for x-ray and CT studies, which was disrupted this summer when COVID-19 lockdowns ordered by Chinese authorities shut down a manufacturing plant in Shanghai.?

Finally, Amazon Web Services (AWS) added new capabilities for medical imaging to its HealthLake cloud storage platform, an indication that healthcare remains a key market for the online giant.

Check out the headlines below for some of the top stories from this week in medical imaging.

Double Black displays chosen for ACR Education Center

Double Black Imaging Corporation said it has been picked by the American College of Radiology as the display vendor for its ACR Education Center. Double Black is supplying the center with Gemini 12-megapixel LED medical displays, worklist displays, and CFS Calibration software.? https://buff.ly/3EIdhHW

Sirona collaborates with RevealDX on lung nodule tools?

Sirona Medical has announced a collaboration with RevealDX that will allow Sirona to integrate the RevealAI-Lung algorithm into the Sirona Workspace platform. The goal of the partnership is to make it easier for radiologists to implement AI into clinical practice for lung nodule assessment. https://buff.ly/3EGpqgN

HeartVista signs cardiac MRI AI deal with Siemens Healthineers

HeartVista.AI has signed a deal with Siemens Healthineers designed to boost the use of cardiac MRI. The agreement will allow the companies to comingle MRI sequences from multiple sources using Access-i, a Siemens Healthineers software interface that allows third-party device integration with Siemens scanners. https://buff.ly/3AkX9cP

4DMedical to launch XV Scanner fluoroscopy system

4DMedical plans to use #RSNA22 as a springboard to launch its XV Scanner, which combines fluoroscopy with analytics software for lung scanning. XV Scanner is designed to provide clinicians with both qualitative and quantitative metrics, such as regional ventilation volume, ventilation defect percentage, and ventilation heterogeneity. https://buff.ly/3hUyuG1

KA Imaging to debut dual-energy mobile x-ray at RSNA 2022

KA Imaging Inc. of Canada said it will launch its first mobile x-ray system, Reveal Mobi Lite, at #RSNA22 . The system is powered by the company's SpectralDR technology, which gives the system the ability to perform mobile dual-energy x-ray exams. https://buff.ly/3EQeQnD

Cleerly combines with Heartbeat Health on virtual cardiology

Cleerly has inked a deal with Heartbeat Health that will combine each company's offerings to improve early cardiac evaluations. Cleerly will provide its AI-based software for analyzing CCTA images, which will then be sent for remote interpretation by a Heartbeat virtual physician. https://buff.ly/3GoTC13

GE makes bid to stabilize contrast supply with $80M investment

GE Healthcare plans to make an $80 million investment to boost production of x-ray and CT contrast media at a plant in Norway. The investment should help solidify supplies of iodinated contrast, which were disrupted this year due to COVID-19 lockdowns at a GE plant in China. https://buff.ly/3EEOQLL

Lantheus signs radioisotope deal with POINT Biopharma

Lantheus and POINT Biopharma have signed a licensing deal for the development of two therapeutic radioisotopes, PNT2002 for prostate cancer and PNT2003 for gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. https://buff.ly/3UyUEfj

Viz.ai partners in AI market space

Artificial intelligence software developer Viz.ai announced two partnerships during the week. The company is working with Vastrax to accelerate clinical trial enrollment in research on neurovascular therapies. Separately, Viz signed a deal with Illuminate to add that company's natural language processing to Viz's AI algorithms for detecting and managing patients with aortic aneurysms. https://buff.ly/3Aknlo6

TeraRecon enhances Eureka Clinical AI with new functionality

Imaging software developer TeraRecon, Inc. has added new capabilities to its Eureka Clinical AI platform. The company has added support for applications from Imaging Biometrics, LLC 's IB Clinic software, providing clinicians with advanced MR image analysis for clinical decision support. IB Clinic enhances standard anatomical imaging by adding physiological information. https://buff.ly/3V5lfAx

ALA report says lung cancer screening rates still lag

Only 5.8% of eligible Americans have been screened for lung cancer; some states have screening rates as low as 1%, according to the State of Lung Cancer report released by the American Lung Association . This rate is well below that of other screening exams. https://buff.ly/3Ai67rj

Amazon dives into cloud-storage lake with new features

Amazon's Amazon Web Services (AWS) division launched major new capabilities for its HealthLake cloud storage platform -- HealthLake Imaging and HealthLake Analytics. HealthLake Imaging is designed to foster the adoption of cloud-native solutions to help transition enterprise medical imaging workflows to the cloud. Intelerad Medical Systems and Arterys are among the first launch partners in radiology for the offering. https://buff.ly/3g5CjHN

Change Healthcare reports growing interest in cloud storage

Radiology sites are moving their images to the cloud, according to Change Healthcare . The company says that its customers have already moved more than 10% of their imaging data to the cloud, and 45 hospitals are live with Change's Stratus Imaging Archive, while 73 institutions have gone live with Stratus Imaging Analytics. https://buff.ly/3AhBvq4 ?

NVIDIA and Nuance partner to boost AI adoption in radiology?

NVIDIA and Nuance Communications have inked a partnership designed to help radiology facilities deploy trained diagnostic imaging AI models into existing clinical applications at scale. The agreement unites the Nuance Precision Imaging Network with Nvidia's MONAI medical imaging AI framework. https://buff.ly/3Aco4ry

MediMaps makes inroads in South Korea

Image processing software developer MediMaps has signed a deal to make its TBS iNsight trabecular bone score software available on diagnostic platforms from OSTEOSYS CO., LTD , a bone mineral densitometer company in South Korea. https://buff.ly/3Af8US7

Siemens Healthineers launches new MRI scanners at 3T and 7T

西门子医疗 launched new MRI scanners at 3-tesla and 7-tesla field strengths at its annual Shape 23 online event on November 14. The scanners include the 3-tesla Magnetom Cima.X scanner and the 7-tesla Magnetom Terra.X system. https://buff.ly/3Vo7ixR

Konica Minolta to launch new POCUS scanner at RSNA 2022

At #RSNA22 , Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc. plans to debut Sonimage MX1 Platinum, the latest version of its Sonimage MX1 POCUS ultrasound scanner. The new Platinum version features an imaging algorithm with improved resolution of ultrasound images while maintaining optimum frame rates. https://buff.ly/3TzVkjc

Xironetic gets FDA nod for IntraOpVSP application

Augmented reality software developer Xironetic said it has received FDA clearance for its IntraOpVSP application, which displays patient CT and MRI images as 3D holograms in AR headsets. https://buff.ly/3USN2DZ

Krupinski tapped to lead editorial of JDI

Elizabeth Krupinski , PhD, of Emory University was tapped as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Digital Imaging (JDI), the flagship publication of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) .?

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