December 15, 2011 — The San Diego Cardiac Center recently installed a 252-panel, 60-kilowatt (kW) commercial solar system that was designed and installed by Stellar Solar. Stellar Solar was selected based on their track record of installing large-scale commercial installations in San Diego, including their recently completed 500kW Salk Institute project.

December 15, 2011 — InterComponentWare Inc. has been honored with the 2011 Karl Storz Prize for Telemedicine through its participation in the prestigious German "Partnership for the Heart" consortium. The prize was bestowed by The German Society for Telemedicine.

December 15, 2011 – Siemens Healthcare offers a new information source for anyone facing an X-ray, computed tomography (CT) or a nuclear medicine examination. At www.medicalradiation.com, medical journalists and Siemens experts provide patients and interested members of the general public with basic details regarding medical radiation – including the fundamentals of the physics involved, an introduction to imaging procedures and notes on minimizing radiation exposure. A glossary explains the most common technical terms in a succinct, readily comprehensible manner.

December 15, 2011 – A single center study recently published in the November 15, 2011 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) suggests that both cardiac computed tomography (cardiac CT) and cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) are superior to transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) in the assessment of patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI).

December 15, 2011 – Fujifilm Holdings Corp. announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement with SonoSite Inc., a provider of bedside and point-of-care ultrasound technology, pursuant to which Fujifilm will acquire SonoSite for approximately $995 million (which includes amounts payable in connection with its convertible debt). The transaction was unanimously approved by the Boards of Directors of both companies.

December 14, 2011 — Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. unveiled the Adaptive Iterative Dose Reduction 3-D (AIDR 3-D), its next generation dose reduction technology, at RSNA 2011. Still pending 510(k) approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the software will be available on Toshiba’s Aquilion One, Aquilion Premium and Aquilion Prime (also pending 510(k) clearance) systems.

December 14, 2011 — Aptus Endosystems Inc. announced it received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the Aptus EndoStapling System, which will now be known as the HeliFX Aortic Securement System. Aptus develops technology for endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR).

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