Cardiovascular Radiology: Page 98

Digisonics integrates CVIS with GE's echo software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Digisonics said it has integrated its cardiovascular information system (CVIS) with EchoPAC software from GE Healthcare for analyzing 3D and 4D echo studies and strain rate.
September 18, 2014
Lantheus touts flurpiridaz F-18 clinical data
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Lantheus Medical Imaging is highlighting clinical data that show reductions in radiation exposure and improved image quality with flurpiridaz F-18 PET myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) compared to SPECT MPI.
September 17, 2014
GE installs new cath lab software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has made the first installation of new business operations and analytics software for cardiac catheterization labs.
September 17, 2014
UltraSPECT, AIS partner in nuclear medicine
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
UltraSPECT has expanded an agreement with Absolute Imaging Solutions (AIS) to pair reconstruction software with gamma cameras.
September 7, 2014
CAC best predicts heart disease in kidney patients
By Eric Barnes
Coronary artery calcium (CAC) as calculated from CT scans was by far the best predictor of cardiovascular disease in individuals with chronic kidney disease, just as it is in the population at large, concludes a new study in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
September 1, 2014
Cardiology group to pay $1.3M in Stark case
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A cardiology group in New York has agreed to pay the U.S. government $1.3 million to settle charges that it compensated physicians based on how many patients they referred for medical imaging scans.
August 28, 2014
Ultralow-dose SPECT provides top image quality, less radiation
By Wayne Forrest
With an eye toward lowering radiation exposure, a group of researchers found that an ultralow-dose high-efficiency SPECT scan for myocardial perfusion imaging can achieve better image quality than standard low-dose SPECT, according to a study published in the September Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
August 28, 2014
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Acusphere pulls European bid for Imagify contrast
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Ultrasound contrast developer Acusphere has voluntarily withdrawn a regulatory application in Europe for its Imagify ultrasound contrast agent for the detection of coronary artery disease.
August 27, 2014
Segmentation technique supports coronary CAD
By Eric Barnes
A new coronary artery segmentation and tracking method is showing promise for supporting computer-aided detection (CAD) schemes that can read coronary CT angiography scans to look for arteries blocked by both soft and calcified plaque, according to research published in Medical Physics.
August 25, 2014
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FDA clears Philips' TAVI package
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Philips Healthcare has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market its planning application for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) treatments.
August 20, 2014
Robot-assisted remote echocardiography shows promise
By Erik L. Ridley
Can an ultrasound scanner be controlled robotically by an operator thousands of miles away? It's not just a dream, according to researchers who demonstrated the feasibility of robot-assisted echocardiography in a pair of articles published recently in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.
August 19, 2014
Circulation: Little radiation risk seen in cardiac scans
By Eric Barnes
A lack of demonstrated harms combined with significant recent dose reductions have led at least one group of cardiovascular imaging specialists to worry less about the risks of a heart scan and more about the well-being of the patient, according to a new review article in Circulation.
August 10, 2014
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