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Ultrasound: Page 460
Ultrasound may offer earlier typhoid detection
By
Brian Casey
Typhoid fever is endemic in India, being the fifth most common infectious disease in the country. Ultrasound could fill a diagnosis gap and assume a role in the early detection of typhoid, according to results presented by Hyderabad researchers at the IRIA show.
March 11, 2004
TDI acts as potential predictor in chronic congestive heart failure
By
Jerry Ingram
NEW ORLEANS - Tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) may serve as a useful addition in routine follow-up of patients with chronic congestive heart failure, and could potentially predict future cardiac events, according to a presentation this week at the 2004 American College of Cardiology meeting in New Orleans.
March 10, 2004
Early results inconclusive for US bone-density assessment in children
By
Eric Barnes
VIENNA - Measuring the speed of sound in bones is a promising and radiation-free method of assessing bone health in children, and adults for that matter. However, early results in a small pediatric population of renal transplant patients did not yield convincing evidence that the method is ready for large-scale implementation.
March 8, 2004
Toshiba touts cardiac advances at ACC
By
AuntMinnie.com staff writers
NEW ORLEANS - Toshiba America Medical Systems is giving attendees at the American College of Cardiology meeting their first look at several new products the Tustin, CA, vendor has rolled out in the past several months.
March 8, 2004
Sixty-four-slice scanner paces GE's ACC products
By
AuntMinnie.com staff writers
NEW ORLEANS - GE Healthcare of Waukesha, WI, is using this week's American College of Cardiology meeting to unveil its entrant in the next-generation multislice scanner race -- LightSpeed VCT, a 64-slice scanner.
March 8, 2004
Vacuum-assisted breast biopsy reduces re-biopsy rate
By
Tracie L. Thompson
VIENNA - Ultrasound-guided breast biopsies performed with a 14-gauge core needle are much more likely to require re-biopsy than those performed with a vacuum-assisted device, according to a large-scale analysis presented Monday at the European Congress of Radiology.
March 7, 2004
Resting MCE may prove superior to SPECT for identifying myocardial viability
By
Jerry Ingram
NEW ORLEANS - Resting myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE), a new bedside procedure that can determine microvascular perfusion, might one day replace 99mTechnetium sestamibi SPECT for the diagnosis of myocardial viability following acute myocardial infarction, according to a poster presented today at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting.
March 6, 2004
Ultrasound aces search for ureteral stones
By
Eric Barnes
VIENNA - Ultrasound is considered to be a rather challenging modality for detecting ureteral stones, but it worked like a charm for Drs. Jongmin Kim and S. H. Kim from the Jinju Gospel Hospital in Jinju, South Korea. Ultrasound left no stone unfound in the team’s eight-month study of emergency-room patients, as confirmed in follow-up imaging studies and clinical interventions.
March 6, 2004
Cedara signs Aloka
By
AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging software developer Cedara Software has signed an agreement to supply medical imaging technologies and services to ultrasound vendor Aloka of Wallingford, CT.
March 4, 2004
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
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