Cardiovascular Radiology: Page 208

PLC to enroll patients in CIN study
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PLC Systems of Franklin, MA, has received conditional approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin enrollment in a trial to study its RenalGuard product for preventing contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN).
March 20, 2008
FluoroPharma begins MPI tracer trial
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging agent developer FluoroPharma has begun phase I clinical trials for a myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) tracer for PET imaging, according to its parent company, QuantRx Biomedical of Doylestown, PA.
March 19, 2008
Cardinal Health, GE team for Myoview
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Cardinal Health and GE Healthcare are collaborating to make GE's Myoview cardiac imaging agent available through Cardinal Health's nuclear pharmacies.
March 18, 2008
Bristol-Myers Squibb unit becomes Lantheus Medical Imaging
By Wayne Forrest
There's a new but familiar face on the radiopharmaceutical scene: Lantheus Medical Imaging, the new corporate identity of the company formerly known as Bristol-Myers Squibb Medical Imaging. Lantheus today announced its new name and corporate look, operating as a standalone company for the first time since the firm's original inception as New England Nuclear in 1956.
March 17, 2008
CMS makes no change to coronary CTA payments
By Brian Casey
In a victory for advocates of coronary CT angiography (CTA), the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) today decided to make no change to the way it reimburses for coronary CTA exams. With the decision, CT advocates have dodged a bullet that many feared could have killed the promising new field of cardiac imaging with CT.
March 11, 2008
Obese patients challenge efficacy of cardiac CTA
By Eric Barnes
VIENNA - Coronary CT angiography (CTA) is proving useful for evaluating most patients with suspected coronary artery disease, particularly since the introduction of 64-slice scanners. But information about CTA's performance in certain subpopulations, such as obese patients, is lacking. Researchers from Belgium studied whether coronary CTA was useful in this patient population, and presented their findings at the 2008 European Congress of Radiology (ECR).
March 10, 2008
Siemens adds Definition applications
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Medical Solutions has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for four applications on its Somatom Definition dual-source CT scanner.
March 10, 2008
Prospective gating drops cardiac CT radiation dose
By Brian Casey
VIENNA - Prospective gating has emerged as a promising method for reducing radiation dose in coronary CT angiography (CTA) studies. Monday at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR), Italian researchers confirmed previous results in using prospective gating to reduce dose to as little as 2.8 mSv per heart study, while a German group discussed its effort to further refine prospective gating by making it more accurate.
March 9, 2008
Zonare debuts version 3.5 of z.one at ECR
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
VIENNA - Ultrasound technology developer Zonare Medical Systems of Mountain View, CA, has released version 3.5 of its z.one scanner platform at this week's European Congress of Radiology (ECR).
March 8, 2008
Dose studies delve into coronary CTA
By Eric Barnes
VIENNA - At the 2008 European Congress of Radiology (ECR) on Saturday, researchers presented a pair of studies that examined the radiation dose of coronary CT angiography (CTA). The first compared the dose of 64-slice CT to that of dual-source CT, and the other examined coronary CTA dose data from a multicenter trial.
March 7, 2008
Automated patient-based contrast application cuts CTA contrast volume, risk
By Eric Barnes
VIENNA - A work-in-progress application that bases coronary CT angiography (CTA) contrast dose and timing on a patient's individual cardiac output significantly reduces contrast media use and, by extension, the risk of nephropathy, according to a study presented Friday at the 2008 European Congress of Radiology (ECR).
March 6, 2008
Dual-source CT edges into cardiac SPECT turf
By Eric Barnes
U.S. researchers will use this week's European Congress of Radiology in Vienna to present research that shows dual-source CT making inroads into cardiac functional imaging, an area currently dominated by SPECT. The study moves dual-source coronary CT angiography closer to the holy grail of cardiac imaging -- a test that performs both morphological and functional analysis in a single scan.
March 5, 2008
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