Cardiac Imaging: Page 250

Philips adds interventional tools
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Philips Medical Systems has added a number of interventional tools for its cardiovascular imaging offerings.
October 23, 2005
Motion-free heart images revealed with 256-slice CT
By Eric Barnes
Images from a prototype 256-slice conebeam CT scanner offered complete volumetric data from a beating heart in a single gantry rotation, and without cardiac motion artifacts, researchers from Japan recently reported.
October 23, 2005
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GE inks IVUS deal with Volcano
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Multimodality vendor Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., has signed a deal with intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) firm Volcano of Rancho Cordova, CA, to develop a new digital cardiovascular angiography system with integrated IVUS capabilities.
October 17, 2005
ACIST launches new contrast injector
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Contrast injector developer ACIST Medical Systems is launching a new contrast delivery system at this week's Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting in Washington, DC.
October 17, 2005
Toshiba unwraps CF-i/SP
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Toshiba America Medical Systems has launched its Infinix CF-i/SP (single-plane) diagnostic and interventional cardiac imaging system.
October 16, 2005
Alliance gets OK for AcuNav reprocessing
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Single-use medical device reprocessor Alliance Medical of Phoenix has received Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance to reprocess AcuNav ultrasound catheters from Siemens Medical Solutions of Malvern, PA.
October 16, 2005
Vital Images, Medis ink deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Advanced visualization firm Vital Images has signed an agreement with cardiac MR software developer Medis of Leiden, Netherlands.
October 16, 2005
In phantom, MDCT edges EBT for calcium detection
By Eric Barnes
Both 16-slice MDCT and electron beam tomography (EBT) performed well in a phantom face-off, but MDCT had a significant advantage in detecting small amounts of coronary artery calcium, according to researchers from Hiroshima University Hospital in Japan.
October 10, 2005
Medtronic submits PMA module for Endeavor
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical device developer Medtronic has submitted the first premarket approval application (PMA) module for its Endeavor drug-eluting coronary stent to the Food and Drug Administration.
October 9, 2005
Guidant launches cobalt chromium stent in Japan
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device vendor Guidant of Indianapolis announced the launch of its Multi-Link Vision RX coronary stent system in Japan, following regulatory and reimbursement approvals.
October 6, 2005
Preliminary study finds fMRI possible in fetal heart
By Shalmali Pal
Functional MRI (fMRI) is not only feasible for fetal cardiac imaging, it can add to clinical perinatal management, according to a group from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania.
October 6, 2005
A new use for SPECT/CT: Tracking stem cell migration
By Kate Madden Yee
Researchers from Johns Hopkins Department of Radiology and Institute of Cell Engineering in Baltimore, MD, have successfully used SPECT/CT to track bone marrow stem cells injected into dogs whose hearts were damaged by heart attack, according to a study published in Circulation.
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