Cardiac Imaging: Page 139

Treadmill stress tests don't compromise follow-up FDG-PET
By Wayne Forrest
Researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center have concluded that a treadmill exercise test before an FDG-PET scan does not increase skeletal muscle FDG uptake and will not adversely affect PET image quality in a clinically significant manner.
June 23, 2011
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Cardium chooses Cedars-Sinai for ASPIRE
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Cardium Therapeutics has chosen Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Nuclear Cardiology Core Laboratory in Los Angeles to serve as the central core lab for its Generx ASPIRE clinical study.
June 22, 2011
CAPR-MRA outperforms CTA in lower extremity vascular imaging
By Wayne Forrest
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, are using an MR angiography (MRA) technique called CAPR -- Cartesian acquisition with projectionlike reconstruction -- to help overcome some limitations of CT angiography (CTA) in the lower extremities.
June 20, 2011
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Philips wins Texas ultrasound contract
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Philips Healthcare has inked a contract with a Texas hospital for its iE33 xMatrix ultrasound system with real-time 3D transesophageal echocardiography.
June 16, 2011
Boston Scientific recalls imaging catheters
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional technology developer Boston Scientific has recalled its iCross and Atlantis SR Pro2 coronary imaging catheters.
June 14, 2011
Echocardiography improves gene therapy
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Echocardiography can improve the success rate of gene therapy, according to research presented this week at the American Society of Echocardiography annual scientific sessions in Montreal.
June 12, 2011
GE touts Optison safety study
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare said that new safety data on its Optison ultrasound contrast agent were presented at this week's American Society of Echocardiography scientific sessions in Montreal.
June 12, 2011
Study finds gender bias in nuclear stress tests
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A group of cardiologists in Rhode Island say a possible gender disparity may exist in how patients are referred for nuclear stress tests, according to the study published online June 8 by the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology.
June 9, 2011
Acusphere reaches deal with FDA
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Ultrasound contrast developer Acusphere has signed a special protocol assessment agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the design of a new phase III study of its Imagify agent.
June 7, 2011
SCCT standardizes cardiac CT terms
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
"Multidetector-row CT" is in, but "multislice CT" is out, say new guidelines issued by the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) in the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography.
June 6, 2011
Novarad launches NovaCardio at SIIM
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
RIS and PACS vendor Novarad has launched its NovaCardio cardiac PACS software at this week's Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) meeting in Washington, DC.
June 1, 2011
Utility of coronary CTA doubtful in low-risk patients
By Eric Barnes
Low-risk patients who tested positive at coronary CT angiography (CTA) ended up getting more prescriptions for cholesterol-lowering drugs and aspirin, signs of good preventive care. But they also got more stress tests, nuclear medicine scans, and cardiac cath procedures, than a control group, researchers found in a May 23 study in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
May 23, 2011
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