Cardiac Imaging: Page 225

Acusphere taps Bucceri for regulatory post

Ultrasound contrast developer Acusphere has hired Dennis Bucceri as its senior vice president of regulatory affairs.

February 4, 2007

DraxImage to bring generic sestamibi to market

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Canadian radiopharmaceutical firm DraxImage has submitted an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its generic kit for the preparation of technetium-99m (Tc-99m) sestamibi.

February 1, 2007

Philips introduces EP Navigator 3D tool

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Philips Medical Systems has launched its EP Navigator advanced visualization imaging application for cardiology.

January 31, 2007

Philips installs two cardiac EP labs

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Philips Medical Systems has completed installations of cardiac electrophysiology (EP) labs at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center in San Francisco and St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Boston.

January 29, 2007

MRI of cardiac devices OK, but requires following strict guidelines

By Shalmali Pal

Two new papers in the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance offer advice on using MRI in patients with pacemakers and implantable cardiac defibrillators. Electrophysiologic and magnet-related issues that must be considered include magnetic field interactions, MRI-related heating, and functional changes, said the authors from the University of Southern California and other Los Angeles-based institutions.

January 29, 2007

Radial sampling in coronary MR shows vulnerable nonstenosed vessels

By Eric Barnes

Coronary vessel wall imaging is a promising way to depict outward blood vessel modeling when luminal stenosis is absent, potentially improving doctors' ability to evaluate blood vessels with an elevated risk of plaque rupture. A new study from Germany shows that radial k-space sampling is better than Cartesian sampling for examining such vessels in 3D turbo field-echo MRI sequences.

January 28, 2007

64-slice CT takes on dual-source in cardiac radiation dose

By Eric Barnes

Does dual-source CT imaging produce half the dose or twice the dose of single-source 64-slice CT -- or something in between? Researchers from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation imaged more than 500 patients on one scanner or the other to find out how the effective dose stacked up in the imaging of several cardiac indications.

January 25, 2007

FlowCardia receives recanalization 510(k)

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Endovascular device developer FlowCardia said that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for its Crosser 14 chronic total occlusion (CTO) recanalization system.

January 22, 2007

AuntMinnie.com Cardiac Imaging Insider

By Eric Barnes

January 21, 2007

Triple-rule-out CT yields even contrast enhancement

By Eric Barnes

Researchers in Florida have developed a triphasic multidetector-row CT (MDCT) method for ruling out the three most dangerous causes of chest pain. Their 64-slice CT protocol examines the coronary arteries, pulmonary arteries, and the aortic arch in a single pass, generating even contrast enhancement in all three regions.

January 21, 2007

FDA OKs longer shelf life for Taxus

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Interventional device developer Boston Scientific said that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved extending the shelf life of its Taxus Express² paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system from 12 months to 18 months.

January 17, 2007

Siemens extends Biosense Webster deal

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Cardiac technology developer Biosense Webster of Diamond Bar, CA, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, has been granted exclusive worldwide rights to distribute the Acuson AcuNav ultrasound catheter from Siemens Medical Solutions to interventional cardiologists.

January 17, 2007

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