Cardiac Imaging: Page 85

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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GE promotes Visipaque study
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare is directing attention to abstracts presented at this week's EuroPCR Congress 2015 in Paris involving the use of its Visipaque isosmolar contrast agent.
May 20, 2015
HeartFlow promotes FFR study at EuroPCR
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Cardiac software developer HeartFlow is promoting a study at this week's EuroPCR 2015 meeting in Paris on the use of its fractional flow reserve (FFR) CT analysis software to assess the severity of coronary artery stenosis.
May 20, 2015
ASE, Ke Labs to collaborate
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and Knowledge Engineering Laboratories (Ke Labs) have signed a collaboration agreement.
May 7, 2015
Lantheus grows Q1 revenues, swings into black
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Lantheus Medical Imaging saw 2% growth in revenues for the first quarter of 2015, while the firm swung into the black from the net loss reported in the same quarter a year ago.
May 5, 2015
Lantheus touts new PET agent study
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Lantheus Medical Imaging is touting a phase III study of its flurpiridaz F-18 investigational PET agent for myocardial perfusion imaging, with data presented at the International Conference on Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT in Madrid.
May 3, 2015
CT reveals cardioembolic stroke that echo misses
By Eric Barnes
Echocardiography may be the de facto gold standard for cardiac evaluation of patients suspected of having cardioembolic stroke, but it isn't necessarily the best modality. A new study from Saudi Arabia used CT to discover several thrombi that echo had missed, along with other conditions.
April 30, 2015
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Congenital heart disease detected less often in rural areas
By Erik L. Ridley
Ultrasound may be doing a better job overall of diagnosing critical congenital heart disease prenatally, but that's not necessarily the case in poorer and more rural communities, according to research presented on Monday at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in San Diego.
April 27, 2015
Motion-tracking MRI gives new insight into stroke risk
By Wayne Forrest
Using a novel motion-tracking MRI technique, researchers from Johns Hopkins University have uncovered new evidence that reduced function in the left atrium of the heart may be a sign of increased stroke risk in patients with or without atrial fibrillation.
April 26, 2015
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