Cardiac Imaging: Page 229

Medicare slashes PET payments
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced new payment rates for hospital outpatient services that include sharp reductions in payments for cardiac and oncology PET studies.
November 5, 2006
Siemens Medical Solutions
By Brian Casey
The Malvern, PA, multimodality vendor will use its RSNA exhibit to tout a range of new computer-aided detection (CAD) applications, from chest to mammography.
November 2, 2006
CT for chest pain cuts hospital admissions
By Eric Barnes
Multidetector-row CT (MDCT) has "tremendous potential" to decrease unnecessary hospital admissions for patients presenting with acute chest pain but nondiagnostic ECG results and normal cardiac enzymes, according to researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.
October 31, 2006
GE Healthcare launches Voluson E8 ultrasound scanner
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., has unveiled its new Voluson E8 ultrasound system.
October 24, 2006
Abbott touts stent results
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device developer Abbott Vascular of Redwood City, CA, is touting early clinical results from a new trial evaluating the safety and performance of a new class of bioabsorbable drug-eluting stents.
October 24, 2006
GE adds to cardiac line
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare is highlighting a range of new products, including a recently cleared digital angiography systems, at this week's Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) annual meeting in Washington, DC.
October 23, 2006
Vital Images, Toshiba launch SurePlaque
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Advanced visualization firm Vital Images and Toshiba Medical Systems have introduced SurePlaque, a coronary plaque characterization software package.
October 23, 2006
Philips debuts TrueView
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Philips Medical Systems is introducing its CT TrueView software at this week's annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium in Washington, DC.
October 22, 2006
Instrumentation, attenuation correction steer nuclear cardiology's future
By Eric Barnes
Nuclear cardiology modalities are seeing a resurgence of late, which is not to say the most widespread heart-imaging modalities were in decline. Still, recent technical improvements on multiple fronts, from detector technology to hybrid modalities like SPECT/CT and PET/CT, seem to have sharpened the modalities' future prospects as they have sharpened the images themselves.
October 22, 2006
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GE makes Innova IVUS install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Multimodality vendor GE Healthcare and intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) developer Volcano of Rancho Cordova, CA, said they have completed the first commercial installation of an Innova IVUS system.
October 18, 2006
InfraReDx receives FDA clearance
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Coronary imaging developer InfraReDx reported that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued 510(k) clearance for the company to market its near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopic system for examining coronary arteries.
October 18, 2006
AuntMinnie.com Cardiac Imaging Insider
By Eric Barnes
October 18, 2006
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