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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The New Rhythm of Cardiology: Cardiac CT

Cardiac CT is hot. Sixty-four slice scanners open the door to non-invasive CT angiography, providing hospitals, cardiology practices and imaging centers a new means of diagnosing coronary artery disease.

Reinventing the Cardiac Cath Lab

The hallmarks of the cath lab of the future are flexibility and efficiency. Procedures are changing, and the advent of 64-slice CT and CT angiography (CTA) makes it possible to bypass diagnostic catheterization in many cases.

Take Heart: PACS Streamlines Cardiovascular Care

More and more facilities are installing a PACS in their cardiology and vascular departments. Get the inside story on implementing a cardiovascular PACS that will transcend time and procedure growth.

Multimodality Cardiac Diagnosis: Cardiac Fusion Imaging Comes to the Desktop

Last year, GE Healthcare introduced VolumeShare2, a new advancedvisualization and analysis toolkit for its Advantage Workstation (AW).This platform incorporates CardIQ Fusion, a new application that allowsphysicians to fuse CT and PET or SPECT imaging data on the AWworkstation. The application was awarded the Society of NuclearMedicine (SNM) annual 2006 Image of the Year.

New products: Medison, SmartPill, U.S. Preventive Medicine

MEDISON introduced the SonoAce X8, the latest in its line ofultrasound systems. The system has new “smart software” protocol-basedultrasound, leap-frogging conventional Windows-based systems.

Cardiac CT & MR: Defining the Strengths

Efforts to improve MR’s simplicity and reduce the radiation exposure associated with CT will keep drawing both cardiologists and radiologists into the fold.

Multidetector CT: The Heart of Cardiac Imaging

The primary driver for 64-slice CT is cardiac imaging; the technology truly enables non-invasive coronary artery imaging. But deploying 64-slice CT is a multi-faceted process.

MRI plays the field with greater strength & speed

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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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