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Multimodality imaging: More than meets the eye for radiologists

(Imaging Technology News) Multimodality imaging systems mean different things for different specialties, but the bottom line is better patient care.

September 20, 2004

Imaging advances provide better treatment options

By N. Shivapriya

Advances in multidetector CT technology may prove a boon to India's growing population, which has shown a ninefold increase in coronary artery disease (CAD) from the 1960s to the 1990s. Coronary CT angiography is one of the newer imaging techniques that has made an impact on everyday clinical practice, according to Dr Shrinivas B. Desai, who gave the keynote address at Imaging Update - 2004.

September 19, 2004

CAD firm Medicsight finds friends in high places

By Brian Casey

If you're a small company just getting started in the cutthroat medical imaging industry, it helps to have influential friends. That could be the motto of U.K. software developer Medicsight, which has lined up an impressive array of clinical partners as it begins to bring its line of computer-aided detection (CAD) products to market.

September 19, 2004

MR planimetry with SSFP bests echo for gauging aortic stenosis

By Tracie L. Thompson

MR planimetry with SSFP is a powerful new diagnostic tool for aortic stenosis patients facing possible valve replacement, according to German researchers, who compared the method with other noninvasive techniques.

September 19, 2004

Abbott starts ZoMaxx stent trial

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Interventional device developer Abbott Vascular Devices (AVD), a subsidiary of Abbott Laboratories of Abbott Park, IL, has enrolled the first patient in its ZoMaxx I drug-eluting coronary stent clinical trial.

September 16, 2004

Siemens introduces IC3D

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Siemens Medical Solutions has unveiled a new interventional cardiac 3D (IC3D) technology to create three-dimensional images of the coronary vessels in the heart.

September 15, 2004