A single intravenous dose of the hormone erythropoietin administered immediately after myocardial infarction can drastically reduce or eliminate apoptosis and thereby limit the amount of damage to the heart, according to an article in the October issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Canadian researchers have used 3D MRI to accurately detect bleedingwithin the walls of diseased carotid arteries, suggesting the techniquemay prove to be a useful screening tool for patients at high risk forstroke, according to a study published in this months issue of Radiology.

Acist Medical Systems, part of the Milan, Italy-based Bracco Group anda manufacturer of media injection systems, today opened its new U.S. corporate headquarters in EdenPrairie, Minn.

AngioDynamics, a provider of medical devices used by interventionalradiologists for the minimally invasive treatment ofcancer and peripheral vascular disease, has reported its financialresults for the first quarter of 2009, which ended Aug. 31.

The U.S. District Court in Delaware has awarded Johnson & Johnson(J&J) damages totaling $406.7 million and pre-judgment interesttotaling $296 million from Boston Scientific and $521 million fromMedtronic, in a case involving a stent patent owned by J&J.

The utilization of CT angiography (CTA) in individuals without knowncoronary artery disease results in lower healthcare costs thanmyocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) with SPECT for this cohort,according to research published this month in Radiology.

BOSTON—Hospitals that perform cardiac nuclear stress testing under the 2007 Appropriateness Criteria from the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) could reduce unnecessary testing and potentially reduce costs, according to a study presented Sept. 12 at the ASNC conference.

To maximize spatial resolution and anatomic detail, cardiac CT (CCT) studies use a coned-down or limited field of view (FOV) that visualizes the heart and approximately one-third of the chest volume. However, if only limited-FOV images are viewed, more than 66.7 percent of pulmonary nodules larger than 1 cm in diameter and more than 80 percent of nodules smaller than 1 cm would be missed, according to a study published this month in the American Journal of Roentgenology.