Cardiac Imaging: Page 165

Mummy CT scans show ancient Egyptians had atherosclerosis
By Edward Susman
ORLANDO, FL - To the surprise of investigators, CT scans of mummies at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo show that these ancient Egyptians had signs of atherosclerosis in their hearts and arteries.
November 17, 2009
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GE touts ADMIRE-HF clinical results
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare is touting two new clinical studies that offer encouraging results for its AdreView radiopharmaceutical in heart failure patients at risk for cardiac death, disease progression, or cardiac arrhythmias.
November 16, 2009
USPSTF ups mammo screening age; echo and heart screening
By Brian Casey
November 16, 2009
Screening kids with ultrasound, ECG finds cardiac abnormalities
By Edward Susman
ORLANDO, FL - Heart screening isn't just for athletes anymore. Researchers at this week's American Heart Association meeting said that screening all middle-school-aged children for cardiac abnormalities with a targeted medical history, physical exam, electrocardiogram (ECG), and echocardiograph can identify those at risk of heart problems before they head out for recess.
November 16, 2009
AuntMinnie.com Cardiac Imaging Insider
By Eric Barnes
November 15, 2009
Echo plus ECG team up to find heart flaws in athletes
By Edward Susman
ORLANDO, FL - Screening the hearts of top student athletes takes more than just an electrocardiogram (ECG), researchers said on Sunday at the American Heart Association's annual conference: Ultrasound is key to finding more athletes at risk.
November 15, 2009
Rice, Texas Heart Instituite get NIH grant
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $1 million grant to Rice University in Houston and the Texas Heart Institute to research cell-tracking nanotube technology that could make MRI up to 40 times more sensitive and help guide adult stem cells to repair damaged hearts.
November 11, 2009
Positron touts new Medicare PET rates
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Molecular imaging vendor Positron expects the shift from cardiac SPECT to cardiac PET imaging will accelerate now that the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.
November 11, 2009
SNM contests proposed CMS payment rules
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Nuclear medicine society SNM has raised significant concerns about proposed reimbursement rules for imaging procedures, announced by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on October 30.
November 5, 2009
Automated segmentation could improve fetal heart echo
By Eric Barnes
A new method of segmenting the fetal heart with echocardiography could improve the evaluation of congenital heart defects compared to the time-consuming manual segmentation in use today, according to researchers from the U.K.
November 5, 2009
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Philips inks 8-year PACS/Xcelera deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Philips Healthcare has announced a contract to replace a siloed legacy PACS at Lakeland Regional Medical Center in central Florida.
November 4, 2009
CMS cuts SPECT MPI payments 36%, sets CCTA rates
By Eric Barnes
Cardiac imaging is scheduled for reimbursement cuts -- including a 36% hack at SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) -- under the final Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2010. On the plus side, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) also published base rates for coronary CT angiography (CCTA) and increased cardiac PET reimbursement by about 17%.
November 4, 2009
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