Cardiovascular Radiology: Page 103

Carestream adds to IT and cardiac PACS at RSNA
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Carestream Health plans to unveil new IT products at this year's RSNA 2014 annual meeting.
November 11, 2014
NeoSoft unwraps new software release
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging software developer NeoSoft has introduced version 2.0 of its SuiteHeart cardiac MRI analysis software.
November 11, 2014
Time-of-flight PET/MRI could help with a variety of clinical applications
By Wayne Forrest
Wednesday, December 3 | 11:10 a.m.-11:20 a.m. | SSK18-05 | Room S505ABTime-of-flight PET/MRI provided comparable image quality and diagnostic ability to PET/CT in several clinical applications in a study from Stanford University.
November 10, 2014
Toshiba rolls out dose software enhancements
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Toshiba America Medical Systems has rolled out enhancements for its Dose Tracking System for the entire Infinix product line, including the Elite, Select, and Essential cardiovascular x-ray systems.
November 9, 2014
Even small amounts of plaque linked to heart attack, death
By Eric Barnes
A study of nearly 38,000 patients that was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that even small amounts of coronary artery plaque increased the risk of heart attack or death a year after diagnosis.
November 5, 2014
Time-of-flight PET/MRI could help with a variety of clinical applications
By Wayne Forrest
Wednesday, December 3 | 11:10 a.m.-11:20 a.m. | SSK18-05 | Room S505ABTime-of-flight PET/MRI provided comparable image quality and diagnostic ability to PET/CT in several clinical applications in a study from Stanford University.
November 4, 2014
Chest size swings calcium scores on CT scans
By Eric Barnes
Friday, December 5 | 10:50 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | SST03-03 | Room S504ABDoes chest size, since it is related to obesity, affect calcium scores? Dutch researchers aimed to find out, having previously found an association between obesity and coronary calcium scores, and shown that CT image quality deteriorates with increased body weight.
November 3, 2014
CTA dose and image quality: 3rd- vs. 2nd-generation DSCT
By Eric Barnes
Thursday, December 4 | 9:35 a.m.-9:45 a.m. | VSVA51-06 | Room E352How much can dose be reduced in CT angiography (CTA) while preserving image quality in the latest dual-source CT (DSCT) scanners? Dr. Florian Schwarz and colleagues from the University of Munich looked at the image quality and radiation dose-saving potential of advanced dual-source CT.
November 3, 2014
Does 4D CTA outperform DSA for arteriovenous malformations?
By Eric Barnes
Wednesday, December 3 | 3:00 p.m.-3:10 p.m.| SSM25-01 | Room E450BDigital subtraction angiography (DSA) is the gold standard for evaluating arteriovenous malformations, but 4D CT angiography (CTA) outperforms it by visualizing the nidus.
November 3, 2014
Is iterative reconstruction a fix for motion-altered calcium scores?
By Eric Barnes
Wednesday, December 3 | 11:50 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | SSK03-09 | Room S502ABDr. Martin Willemink and colleagues from University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands addressed this question with iterative model reconstruction, a calcium hydroxyapatite-containing phantom, and a 256-slice CT scanner.
November 3, 2014
Calcium volume, distribution predict rupture risk for TAVR patients
By Eric Barnes
Tuesday, December 2 | 10:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m. | SSG02-01 | Room S504ABBalloon-expandable transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures can lead to dangerous aortic root injury in the event of annular rupture. How do such ruptures happen and in which patients? Canadian researchers looked at the role of calcified plaque's location and distribution in these events.
November 3, 2014
Motion correction green-lights CCTA in faster hearts
By Eric Barnes
Monday, December 1 | 11:50 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | SSC02-09 | Room S504ABStopping motion in the fast-beating heart is, of course, one of the toughest challenges in radiology, but new methods such as high-pitch CT and motion correction techniques are fueling new levels of image quality, even in patients with the highest heart rates.
November 3, 2014
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