Ultrasound: Page 451

OmniSonics adds $43 million in financing

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Vascular ultrasound developer OmniSonics Medical Technologies of Wilmington, MA, has closed a round of financing worth an aggregate total of $43 million.

March 2, 2004

Diagnostic Ultrasound creates subsidiary

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Volumetric ultrasound developer Diagnostic Ultrasound of Bothell, WA, has created a customer care subsidiary.

March 1, 2004

Misonix to distribute Sonablate 500 in Europe

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Ultrasound developer Misonix of Farmingdale, NY, has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Focus Surgery of Indianapolis.

March 1, 2004

Biosound Esaote adds to product line

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Ultrasound vendor Biosound Esaote will unveil its digital echocardiography office suite at next week’s American College of Cardiology meeting in New Orleans.

March 1, 2004

MRI ‘more robust’ for assessing aortic root in connective tissue disorders

By Shalmali Pal

Dr. Alan Stolpen, Ph.D., and colleagues looked at 59 consecutive patients who underwent cine MRI with transthoracic echocardiography correlation. The patients had a diagnosis, or strong family history, of Marfan syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, familial thoracic aortic aneurysm syndrome, or a bicuspid aortic valve.

February 29, 2004

Researchers examine power Doppler role in breast ultrasound

By Erik L. Ridley

U.S. researchers found that contrast-enhanced 3-D power Doppler confers additional diagnostic power over standard 2-D and 3-D power Doppler in breast cancer imaging, while a Turkish group found contrast-enhanced power Doppler to be effective only in patients with suspicious lesions, according to separate articles published in the February issue of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.

February 26, 2004