PARIS – In an unusual show of solidarity, the two agencies charged with implementing France's ambitious programs for e-health held a joint press conference during the Health Information Technology exposition held here last week to announce the signing of a collaborative agreement spelling out their roles and responsibilities. (Medical Device Daily)

VIENNA, Austria — Don't say HIFU, please just say it is non-invasive treatment of uterine fibroids. Like any industry, radiology is an alphabet soup of acronyms with major imaging modalities promoted as MRI, US and CT, with contrast enhancement adding to the mix for marketing materials touting CE-CT or CE-US, and even emerging metabolic imaging crossing over from nuclear medicine quickly creating SPECT or PET-MRI. (Medical Device Daily)

VIENNA, Austria — If doctors liked PET-CT, they are going to love PET-MRI. And despite its high cost, doctors like PET-CT a lot, valuing the new insights into the biology of specific tumors offered by this technology that fuses metabolic processes shown by PET images layered over the anatomical references provided by with CT. (Medical Device Daily)

VIENNA, Austria — What a difference a year makes. At last year's European Congress of Radiology, Agfa Healthcare (Mortsel, Belgium) was on the ropes and the buzz among sales reps and executives in the corridors was that this division, which accounts for 40% of sales for the larger Agfa-Gevaert Group would be sold. (Medical Device Daily)