Cardiac Imaging

While cardiac ultrasound is the widely used imaging modality for heart assessments, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and nuclear imaging are also used and are often complimentary, each offering specific details about the heart other modalities cannot. For this reason the clinical question being asked often determines the imaging test that will be used.

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Philips unveils ECG system

NEW ORLEANSPhilips Healthcare introduced PageWriter TC70, its new cardiograph with DXL 16-lead ECG algorithm, that may help clinicians deliver faster diagnosis and treatment during heart attacks, while also supporting door-to-balloon and hospital quality initiatives, at the 2008 American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions this week.

GE launches ECG product to improve workflow for smaller hospitals

NEW ORLEANS EMR Gateway from GE Healthcare enables resting ECGs to be transmitted directly to a patients EMR. The software can be set up on any PC and is compatible with most EMR systems. The company launched the new product at the 2008 American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions this week.

GE, Hansen Medical coordinate cardiac cath lab technologies

GE Healthcare and Hansen Medical have collaborated to validate compatibility of GEs Innova cardiovascular imaging systems and Hansen Medicals robotic navigation technology.

Crossing the cultural divide

In a historic first, the United States witnessed Tuesday the election of a president whose candidacy was successfully able to bridge party, racial and cultural lines. The election may signify the softening of divisions among traditionally adversarial groups; which, in turn, may open lines of communication and the discovery of a common ground.

New model could estimate radiation skin doses during CT-guided interventions

A new model that would allow interventional radiologists to better estimate patient radiation skin doses during CT-guided interventional procedures has been developed, according to a report in the November issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Cone-beam CT: As useful as MDCT before and after percutaneous vertebroplasty

Cone-beam CT which is believed to deliver less radiation than multi-detector CT (MDCT) is just as useful when evaluating patients before and after percutaneous vertebroplasty, according to a study in the November issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

ACIST enters StatSensor Creatinine Meter distributing agreement

ACIST Medical Systems, a Bracco Group company, has signed a distribution agreement with Nova Biomedical to distribute the StatSensor Creatinine Meter.

Replacement sales, developing markets to keep fluoroscopy market afloat

Characterized by relative maturity and sluggish growth, the global fluoroscopy and mobile C-arms market is forecasted to crawl to 9,600 units worth $1.3 billion in 2012, according to a report from market research firm Global Industry Analysts (GIA).

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Cardiovascular Business
Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

Cardiovascular Business
‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

Cardiovascular Business
FDA clears AI tool that flags signs of heart disease in chest CT scans

The newly cleared offering, AutoChamber, was designed with opportunistic screening in mind. It can evaluate many different kinds of CT images, including those originally gathered to screen patients for lung cancer. 

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