Cardiac Imaging: Page 141

ECG helps screen for pediatric heart conditions
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Adding an electrocardiogram (ECG) to a history and physical examination can identify undiagnosed heart conditions in healthy children and adolescents, according to a pilot study from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. An echocardiography study was also found to be useful.
March 17, 2011
Fuji begins shipping decision-support software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Fujifilm Medical Systems USA announced that its advanced software decision-support system, Intelligent Structured Reporting, is now available. The technology will be highlighted at the upcoming American College of Cardiology annual meeting.
March 16, 2011
Cardiac imaging docs form imaging service
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A number of cardiac imaging luminaries have teamed up to form the Transcontinental Cardiovascular Core Laboratory.
March 15, 2011
Corindus launches PRECISE trial
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Cardiac cath lab technology developer Corindus Vascular Robotics said that its CorPath Percutaneous Robotic-Enhanced Coronary Intervention (PRECISE) study is now under way.
March 15, 2011
Lantheus gets FDA nod for new clinical trial
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Lantheus Medical Imaging said that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared a special protocol assessment on the design and planned analysis of a phase III trial to assess myocardial perfusion with a new PET radiopharmaceutical.
March 10, 2011
High-pitch DSCTA often repeated, but dose still lower
By Eric Barnes
VIENNA - Nearly one in five coronary CT angiography scans acquired with an emerging high-pitch dual-source CT angiography (DSCTA) protocol needs to be repeated. But the low-dose acquisitions possible mean even repeated scans have lower overall doses than comparable 64-detector-row CTA scans, researchers reported at the European Congress of Radiology.
March 3, 2011
Hardware, software advances spark cardiac SPECT progress
By Wayne Forrest
After remaining relatively stagnant for more than 50 years, the basic design of SPECT cameras has taken a quantum leap: Innovative developers have brought hardware and software improvements to the technology to reduce scan time and allow users to better control the amount of radiotracers given to patients.
March 3, 2011
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CT limited for detection of subtle aortic tears
By Eric Barnes
VIENNA - Even with electrocardiographic gating, CT angiography cannot confidently visualize subtle aortic tears of the ascending aorta. Transesophageal echocardiography may be a better option in some patients, according to a presentation Thursday at the European Congress of Radiology.
March 2, 2011
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Dynamic cardiac CT stress perfusion equivalent to MRI
By Eric Barnes
Cardiac MRI may be the gold standard for evaluating myocardial perfusion, but there's no reason CT can't eventually take over much of MRI's workload in patients suspected of coronary artery disease, say researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina and two other centers.
February 28, 2011
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AuntMinnie.com Cardiac Imaging Insider
By Eric Barnes
February 24, 2011
CMS keeps MRI rules for pacemakers, ICDs
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a final rule indicating that there is not enough data to change current policy against reimbursing for the use of MRI for patients with implanted permanent pacemakers or implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs).
February 24, 2011
InfraReDx touts CRT presentations
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Coronary imaging developer InfraReDx said that its LipiScan intravascular ultrasound system will be featured in several talks at the upcoming Cardiovascular Research Technologies (CRT) 2011 meeting next week in Washington, DC.
February 22, 2011
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