Reston, Va. (Jan. 18, 2014) – The American College of Radiology (ACR) has named William T. Thorwarth, Jr., M.D., FACR, chief executive officer (CEO), effective April 2014. A practicing diagnostic radiologist with Catawba Radiological Associates in Hickory, N.C., Thorwarth has previously served as ACR President, chair of the ACR Economics Commission, member of the ACR Board of Chancellors and most recently on the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Board of Directors. Thorwarth was also honored with the ACR Gold Medal in 2010.

Plymouth Township, Mich. - Jan. 7, 2014 - Delphinus Medical Technologies, Inc., innovator and developer of a new ultrasound platform that images the entire breast, has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the SoftVue™ whole breast ultrasound tomography system, approved for diagnostic breast imaging.

HOUSTON, Jan. 7, 2014 -- The Department of Pediatric Radiology at Texas Children's Hospital is excited to announce that Dr. Kamlesh U. Kukreja has been named the new chief of Interventional Radiology. Kukreja, whose appointment was effective Jan. 1, has also been appointed as Assistant Professor of radiology at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). For more information about interventional radiology at Texas Children's visit texaschildrens.org.

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 8, 2014 -- Parkinson's disease is a neurological disorder that affects the central nervous system and currently afflicts over one million people in North America, and more than five million people worldwide, according to the Michael J. Fox Foundation. While medication can curb symptoms, one of the most heartbreaking aspects of Parkinson's disease is that medications often lose efficacy as the disease progresses.

Mortsel, Belgium/Greenville, SC – 16 December 2013 – Agfa HealthCare announces today the first two U.S. sales of IMPAX Agility, a brand new imaging platform that unifies the functionalities provided by traditionally disparate RIS, PACS, reporting, 3-D, connectivity and clinical applications. Montgomery General Hospital, Montgomery, West Virginia, and Open Systems Imaging, Palm Desert, California, selected IMPAX Agility to boost their business success by simplifying IT integration efforts and providing a cost-saving image management platform. Both customers have chosen Agfa HealthCare’s managed services deployment model due to its reliability, predictability and userfriendliness.   With Agfa HealthCare’s managed service, both IMPAX Agility customers never need to worry about storage hardware availability, maintenance or obsolescence during the term of their contracts with Agfa HealthCare.

American Fork, Utah, December 16, 2013 – Novarad expands its southern PACS installations adding a community hospital and clinic. The contracts, facilitated by Novarad South, a Novarad distributor, include:- Pioneer Health Services of Oneida, a clinic in Oneida, Tenn.- Macon County General Hospital in Lafayette, Tenn.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN-- Dec 17, 2013 - Virtual Radiologic (vRad), the nation's largest radiology practice, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued the Company's 12th and 13th patents. Patent No. 8,612,250, titled "Multiple Resource and Planning System," and Patent No. 8,612,253, titled "Medical Image Metadata Processing," further enhance vRad's patent portfolio covering its teleradiology image processing, multiple resource planning and workflow systems, with the patents including additional claims around the processing and assignment of complex medical diagnostic imaging evaluation orders.

Kortrijk, Belgium, 3 December 2013 – Healthcare imaging specialist Barco introduces the MXRT-7500, a brand-new 3D PCIe display controller supporting up to 4 full resolution displays. The first board to offer compatibility with the DisplayPort 1.2 interface standard, the MXRT-7500 features the PCIe 3.0 interface and the latest in AMD FireProTM 3D technology, ensuring ultra-fast loading of medical images and large datasets.