Cardiac Imaging: Page 308

New tissue-tracking echocardiography shows heart wall abnormalities
By Eric Barnes
In today's cardiac sessions of the 2002 European Congress of Radiology, Dr. Dietmar Kivelitz from the Radiology Institute of Charité Hospital in Berlin offered a new tissue tracking echocardiography technique that quantified regional cardiac wall abnormalities with far greater accuracy.
March 3, 2002
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MRA gauges spiral blood flow as predictor of renal deterioration
By Eric Barnes
VIENNA - MR angiography, an emerging favorite at ECR 2002, just keeps getting better. Dr. J. G. Houston, a radiologist with Ninewells Hospital and Medical School in Dundee, UK, discussed the role of MRA-imaged blood flow changes as a predictor of disease.
March 1, 2002
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In elderly, coronary calcium is strongest predictor of mortality
By Eric Barnes
VIENNA - Researchers from University of Groningen Hospital in The Netherlands found that coronary calcium is a strong predictor of mortality that is independent of other cardiovascular risk factors. They presented their results Friday at the 2002 ECR meeting.
February 28, 2002
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Alliance nears approval for Imavist
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Alliance Pharmaceutical said today that the Food and Drug Administration has found its Imavist ultrasound contrast agent to be approvable.
February 28, 2002
Philips, Theseus team up
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Philips Medical Systems and North American Scientific subsidiary Theseus Imaging are collaborating to research and develop improved methodology for noninvasive imaging of cardiac cell death.
February 20, 2002
IntraLuminal combines OCR navigation, RF ablation
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device manufacturer Intraluminal Therapeutics said it has developed a therapeutic system that combines vascular image guidance with the controlled delivery of radiofrequency (RF) energy for the ablation of calcified vascular lesions.
February 19, 2002
Fonar, Biophan to develop MRI-compatible pacemaker
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Fonar is working with Biophan Technologies of West Henrietta, NY, to develop an MRI-compatible pacemaker.
February 5, 2002
Compared to cardiac EBCT, multislice dose packs a wallop
By Leslie Farnsworth
Multislice scanning is enabling CT to take off in new directions, such as cardiac imaging. But the extra functionality comes at a price. MSCT provides up to seven times the radiation dose of electron beam CT (EBCT), yet offers only moderately better spatial resolution, according to German radiologists.
February 5, 2002
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SonoSite rolls out SonoHeart Elite
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Handheld ultrasound technology developer SonoSite has introduced SonoHeart Elite, an all-digital cardiac ultrasound system.
February 4, 2002
Philips, Lumedx show integrated cardiovascular products at HIMSS
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Philips Medical Systems and Lumedx featured an integrated cardiovascular information system at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) meeting in Atlanta this week.
January 30, 2002
Imaging explores link between kidney failure and atherosclerosis
By Eric Barnes
A study by researchers at the University of Heidelberg in Germany offers a rare glimpse into the vascular pathology of young adults with childhood-onset renal failure. Using multidetector-row CT and high-resolution ultrasound, the researchers shed new light on recent hypotheses that seek to explain the mechanisms by which chronic uremia leads to atherosclerosis.
January 27, 2002
GE to outfit all-digital heart hospital
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Medical Systems will provide its Centricity enterprise-wide image and information management system to the Indiana Heart Hospital, a $60 million, 210,000-square-foot, all-digital hospital set to open in December.
January 24, 2002
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