Cardiac Imaging: Page 265

Verdicts come down in Medtronic/Guidant dispute
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medtronic said that a Delaware jury has rendered verdicts in patent litigation between Medtronic and the ACS subsidiary of Guidant.
February 20, 2005
Toshiba adds Aquilion 64 CFX install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Toshiba America Medical Systems has installed its Aquilion 64 CFX multislice cardiac CT system at the Woodlands North Houston Heart Center in Texas.
February 16, 2005
ECG sales pace CompuMed's growth
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical informatics firm CompuMed of Los Angeles said that strong sales in its electrocardiogram division helped the company achieve 47% growth in revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2005 (end-December 31).
February 15, 2005
Neoprobe gets new Quantix/OR clearance
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Specialty probe developer Neoprobe of Dublin, OH, has received 510(k) clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for a new version of its Quantix/OR probe.
February 14, 2005
MDCT maybe equivalent to MRI, tops echo and SPECT for heart function
By Eric Barnes
Analyzing left ventricular function is the prelude to treating several cardiac diseases, and it seems that multidetector CT may now be equivalent to MRI for the task over a wide range of heart rates, according to researchers from Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan. But another study gives MRI a slight edge still.
February 14, 2005
Fuji/Heartlab alliance scores first install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PACS developers Fujifilm Medical Systems USA and Heartlab have made the first installation of an image management network that combines products from both companies.
February 13, 2005
Cardiac MR shows imaging obese patients requires reshaping
By Shalmali Pal
The presence of nonheart-related conditions can complicate cardiovascular tests on obese patients. Two recent studies examined the independent effects of obesity on cardiac investigations. First, U.K. researchers evaluated the link between uncomplicated obesity and decreased aortic elastic function. In a second study, researchers matched obesity trends with changing diagnostic principles in cardiac MR (CMR).
February 13, 2005
Barco wins 510(k) for VesselMetrix
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Barco of Kortrijk, Belgium, has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Voxar 3D VesselMetrix.
February 7, 2005
Philips, Georgia Heart form alliance
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Multimodality vendor Philips Medical Systems and the Georgia Heart Center have formed a five-year cardiac alliance that calls for the installation of a variety of equipment at the institution in the Macon, GA-based Medical Center of Central Georgia.
February 2, 2005
Kodak inks partnerships
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Eastman Kodak Health Imaging and cardiac PACS firm Heartlab have signed a marketing and reseller agreement.
February 2, 2005
Medtronic infringement ruling reversed
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medtronic said that the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware has reversed its prior summary judgment ruling finding that the company's S7 and Driver coronary stent products infringed one claim of Guidant's Lau patent.
February 2, 2005
Drug-eluting stents top balloon angioplasty for preventing in-stent restenosis
By Radiology Review
(Radiology Review) Sirolimus- or paclitaxel-eluting stents were superior to conventional balloon angioplasty for preventing restenosis in patients with in-stent restenosis, according to a recent study by German researchers.
January 30, 2005
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