Cardiovascular Radiology: Page 217

Philips to acquire Raytel
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Dutch industrial conglomerate Royal Philips Electronics plans to acquire Windsor, CT-based home cardiac monitoring services provider Raytel Cardiac Services from SHL Telemedicine, the company reported.
October 3, 2007
Shina Systems to debut AngioCT
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Cardiovascular imaging and analysis software company Shina Systems of Israel will launch a new angiography and CT angiography (CTA) product at this month's Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutic conference (TCT) in Washington, DC.
October 3, 2007
AuntMinnie.com Cardiac Insider
By Eric Barnes
October 2, 2007
Dual-source coronary CTA largely unaffected by heart rate
By Eric Barnes
As multidetector CT scanners have added detector rows over the years, faster and faster heart rates have been required to cause motion artifacts significant enough to reduce the diagnostic accuracy of coronary CT angiography (CTA). Researchers in Europe recently studied how dual-source CT performs with high heart rates, and found that diagnostic image quality is sufficient for a wide range of heart rates and heart rate variability.
October 2, 2007
CardioDynamics nets OK for BioZ Dx features
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Impedance cardiography (ICG) developer CardioDynamics of San Diego has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) marketing clearance for ICG clinical parameters and the electronic medical record (EMR) interface capability for its BioZ Dx system.
September 27, 2007
Rcadia nets FDA nod
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Israeli computer-aided detection (CAD) developer Rcadia Medical Imaging has received a second U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its COR Analyzer family of products.
September 25, 2007
Left atrial size adds prognostic value in stress echo exams
By Erik L. Ridley
Left atrial (LA) size provides independent and incremental value over standard risk factors such as left ventricular systolic dysfunction and ischemia in patients referred for stress echocardiography exams, according to a new study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
September 25, 2007
Coronary artery disease linked to colon cancer
By Eric Barnes
Patients who learn they have coronary artery disease (CAD) might be wise to get more screening. New research links the presence of coronary artery disease at angiography to a high likelihood of colorectal polyps and cancer at colonoscopy. The study in the Journal of the American Medical Association revealed more new information about individual risk factors than about the general association between heart and colon disease.
September 24, 2007
Cook expands existing Cardica deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device firm Cook Medical announced that it has inked a deal with Cardica of Redwood City, CA, to expand the two firms' original agreement for developing vascular closure devices.
September 19, 2007
Aloka debuts two new scanners
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Ultrasound vendor Aloka has introduced two new scanners targeted at the cardiac and vascular imaging markets.
September 17, 2007
Numa debuts NumaStore Lite at ASNC meeting
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Nuclear medicine connectivity developer Numa of Amherst, NH, has launched its NumaStore Lite image management software for nuclear cardiology, PET, and multimodality imaging.
September 12, 2007
BMI's importance loses weight in new atherosclerosis study
By Eric Barnes
Experts disagree about which measures of obesity most accurately predict the risk of atherosclerosis. Is the body mass index (BMI) able to predict atherosclerotic disease? Not very well, according to a new study. Using electron beam CT and cardiac MRI, researchers from Dallas found that only the waist-to-hip size ratio was independently associated with atherosclerosis.
September 10, 2007
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