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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Lahoud named CardioMag Imaging president

Dr. Michael Lahoud has been selected as the president of CardioMagImaging, a cardiology device start up based in Schenectady, N.Y.

Images on the iPhone

Medical images can be viewed on Apple’s new iPhone, says Heart Imaging Technologies (HeartIT).

Abbott starts drug-eluting stent trial for women

Healthcare product and device developer Abbott’s vascular business unithas inaugurated its Xience V Spirit Women clinical trial, designed tostudy the safety and effectiveness of drug eluting stent treatment inwomen.

Slight downturn in Boston Scientifics Q2

Interventional device developer Boston Scientific revenues and adjustednet income showed a slight dip for its fiscal 2007 second quarter,end-June 30, compared with results from the Natick, Mass.-based firm’s2006 second quarter results.

Abbotts vascular business posts strong Q2 revenues

Healthcare product and device developer Abbott’s vascular business unitshowed double-digit gains in U.S. sales and triple-digit gains ininternational sales for its fiscal 2007 second quarter, end-June 30.

Boston Scientific initiates Taxus Element trial

Interventional device developer Boston Scientific said it has begunclinical trial enrollment in studies evaluating its third-generationpaclitaxel-eluting coronary stent, the Taxus Element stent.

JAMA: Cardiac CTA radiation exposure is nonnegligible

The radiation dose from coronary computed tomography angiography (coronary CTA) carriesa “nonnegligible” cancer risk that varies widely with age, gender andscan protocol, researchers said in a study just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Cook notches first U.S. enrollment for PAD paclitaxel stent trial

Interventional device developer Cook Medical reported that the firstU.S. patients in its international Zilver PTX Stent clinical trial weretreated at Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside, Calif.

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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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