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Lantheus touts results for PET agent at SNM
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Lantheus Medical Imaging is highlighting clinical data for a new PET radiopharmaceutical for imaging heart failure at this week's SNM meeting in Salt Lake City.
June 7, 2010
Lantheus reports F-18 cardiac PET findings
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Lantheus Medical Imaging said that preliminary data presented today at the annual SNM meeting indicate positive results with its investigational flurpiridaz F-18 cardiac PET imaging agent.
June 6, 2010
PET/CT may improve therapy for congestive heart failure patients
By Wayne Forrest
SALT LAKE CITY - German researchers have found that FDG-PET/CT can help determine when cardiac resynchronization therapy is ineffective, and it can identify risk factors that could alter the course of treatment for patients with congestive heart failure, according to a study presented Sunday at the SNM meeting.
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Cardiac model favors treadmill then CTA for low-risk patients
By Eric Barnes
A new cost-effectiveness model gives surprising prominence to the exercise treadmill test for evaluating patients with suspected coronary artery disease. In fact, treadmill plus imaging -- especially coronary CT angiography (CTA) for low-risk patients -- was more cost-effective than any imaging modality alone.
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Philips begins selling PET/CT unit in U.S.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Philips Healthcare has begun shipping its Gemini LXL PET/CT scanner in North America.
June 3, 2010
MeVis increases stake in Medis
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical imaging software developer MeVis Medical Solutions has increased its stake in Medis Holding to 41%.
June 1, 2010
Study finds coronary calcium, ED link
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Men with erectile dysfunction (ED) are more likely to have high coronary artery calcification scores on CT scans, according to new study presented this week at the American Urological Association meeting in San Francisco.
May 31, 2010
AuntMinnie.com Cardiac Imaging Insider
By Eric Barnes
May 31, 2010
ASNC offers tips to reduce MPI radiation
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) has published a new set of recommendations to reduce radiation exposure for patients undergoing myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) procedures.
May 31, 2010
Cardiac CAD safely rules out coronary artery disease
By Eric Barnes
A computer-aided detection (CAD) algorithm that detects coronary artery stenosis at coronary CT angiography not only helped less experienced readers find more lesions, it ruled out adverse cardiac events for more than a year in patients who had disease symptoms but were read by CAD as negative.
May 31, 2010
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MRI boosts diagnosis of constrictive pericarditis
By Eric Barnes
Measuring the early filling fraction can improve MRI's ability to diagnose constrictive pericarditis, according to new research from Michigan and Pennsylvania. The secret to MRI's success lies in its functional measures, which outperform conventional morphologic signs of disease, investigators said.
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Cardiac CT finds resectable lung cancers at wide FOV
By Eric Barnes
Korean radiologists found plenty of unsuspected lung cancers in a large cohort of patients being scanned for heart disease, according to a new study in Radiology. Most lesions were resectable, but most were seen only when the images were read using wider fields-of-view (FOV).
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