Cardiac Imaging: Page 84

St. Jude commences trial of OCT guidance
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
St. Jude Medical has begun its Ilumien III clinical trial to gauge the clinical benefits of its Ilumien optical coherence tomography (OCT) technology for guiding stent implantation.
June 29, 2015
Merge, Toshiba ink strategic partnership
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Merge Healthcare and Toshiba America Medical Systems are partnering to combine Merge's cardiology PACS and hemodynamic monitors with Toshiba's vascular x-ray systems.
June 28, 2015
Group creates 3D printed heart with CT, echo data
By Eric Barnes
In what they are calling a major advance, researchers from Michigan have created a 3D model of a human heart using data from two separate cardiac imaging techniques: CT and echocardiography. They believe that such hybrid 3D models will be more accurate than those created from just one imaging modality.
June 28, 2015
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ASE elects new president
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Dr. Susan Wiegers became president of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) for a one-year term following the society's 26th annual scientific sessions, which were held last week in Boston.
June 14, 2015
Philips unwraps echo quantification tool
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Philips Healthcare is introducing its HeartModelA.I. cardiac ultrasound quantification software at this week's American Society of Echocardiography conference in Boston.
June 11, 2015
USPSTF ponders addition of new heart risk factors
By Eric Barnes
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has drafted a research plan for assessing cardiovascular disease risk, and it is accepting public comments on the idea of adding nontraditional measures such as coronary artery calcium into standard cardiovascular risk factor assessment for asymptomatic individuals.
June 11, 2015
MDCT: In CT lung cancer screening, don't forget the heart
By Eric Barnes
SAN FRANCISCO - Radiologists who screen smokers for lung cancer with CT should remember to look at the heart as an important predictor of mortality in its own right, according to a Tuesday talk at the International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT (MDCT).
June 10, 2015
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Annals: Few differences in CCTA vs. SPECT MPI
By Eric Barnes
A study comparing coronary CT angiography (CCTA) with SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) in chest pain patients found that CT's radiation dose was lower and that it yielded fewer unpleasant experiences among patients, according to results published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
June 10, 2015
SNMMI: Amyloid scintigraphy predicts major cardiac events
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A new scintigraphy molecular imaging scan can pinpoint the dangerous buildup of amyloid proteins in the heart and predict major adverse cardiac events, according to a study presented this week at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging conference in Baltimore.
June 7, 2015
SCCT announces Toshiba award finalists
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) has announced finalists for the ninth annual Toshiba Young Investigator Award, sponsored by Toshiba America Medical Systems.
June 3, 2015
Bracco touts 1st U.S. Lumason procedure
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Contrast developer Bracco Imaging announced that the first echocardiography imaging procedure with Lumason has been performed in the U.S. at Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, NJ.
June 2, 2015
NIH study ties soft plaque on CT to cardiac risk factors
By Brian Casey
When it comes to arterial plaque, researchers are beginning to believe that soft, noncalcified plaques rather than arterial calcifications are the real killers. In a study published online June 2 in Radiology, U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers used CT to measure soft plaques and tie their size to risk factors for heart disease.
June 2, 2015
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