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First magnetic navigation catheter intervention in child
Ten-year-old Tobias smiles brightly at the photographer. And so do the two physicians next to him. They have good reason to be proud as they were the first surgeons worldwide to Read more …
Guide to treat patients with myocardial bridging
A research team at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the University of Texas Medical Branch and RWTH Aachen University in Germany has developed a new classification system devised to Read more …
Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust upgrade their cardiothoracic centre
Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust is a partnership of two specialist hospitals which are known for excellent expertise, standard of care and research success. For their new Read more …
Predicting the odds of heart attacks via ultrasound?
According to Prof Clemens von Birgelen, cardiologist on staff at the Thorax Centre of the Medisch Spectrum Twente in Enschede, who quoted from recent studies in his inaugural as a Read more …
Fully digital X-ray based 3-D imaging drives MIS
In recent years, intra-operative 3-D C-arm imaging has revolutionised orthopaedics and trauma surgery. In particular using the images created during an operation, C-arms with 3-D Read more …
Cardiac software launched for CS Thin Client
Visage Imaging has launched its Cardiac Analysis software for the Visage CS Thin Client, which offers ‘advanced visualisation and quantitative analysis for cardiac CT studies, Read more …
Imagify™- first imaging agent to assess myocardial perfusion using ultrasound
Myocardial perfusion is considered a sensitive marker for the diagnosis of coronary heart disease. Currently, the most frequently used imaging procedure to gain information about Read more …
Magnetic Field Imaging improves cardiac diagnostics
Magnetic Field Imaging (MFI) provides cardiologists with an additional tool to detect arrythmia and irregular cardiac blood flow and thus contributes to a more precise diagnosis. Read more …
Magnetic Field Imaging improves cardiac diagnostics
Magnetic Field Imaging (MFI) provides cardiologists with an additional tool to detect arrythmia and irregular cardiac blood flow and thus contributes to a more precise diagnosis. Read more …
CTA benefits coronary artery bypass graft patients
Cardiac CT angiography (CTA) performed after coronary artery bypass grafting surgery can reveal a high prevalence of unsuspected cardiac and significant non-cardiac findings that Read more …
Acuson P10 – the world’s smallest ultrasound device
The Acuson P10 is a new portable ultrasound device, developed and manufactured by Siemens Medical Solutions. The new system in the size of a Blackberry embodies Point of Care Read more …
Cardiac Diagnostic Imaging - Significance of ultrasound
Some of the medical procedures and equipment showcased and discussed at the MEDICA 2007 are sure to provide medical experts with plenty of discussion material. In cardiac Read more …
Molecular medicine
It has only recently been discovered that very often it is not the size of the plaque in the coronary vessels but its inflammation status that determines the occurrence of a Read more …
A non-invasive measurement of arterial wall atherosclerosis
By Thaddeus Chodakauskas BS RDMS and Steve Feinstein MD FACC
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Hot Spots:
A next-generation diagnostic tool for cardiovascular disease, using a nanoscale iron particle, is now under development at a unique industry-government-university named Nano AG. A Read more …
MRI: Diagnosis of arteriosclerosis and plaque imaging
The spatial-anatomic visualisation offered by MRI already provides immense diagnostic possibilities for cardiology. However, as yet, the potential of this imaging modality is far Read more …
Ludwig-Maximillians-University Munich installs GE Healthcares' 64-multislice LightSpeed VCT
The department of Radiology at the LMU Munich optimizes the care of patients with LightSpeed VCT, a 64-multislice CT from GE Healthcare. The high-tech CT is perfectly suited for Read more …
CAD
Although cardiac catheterisation is considered the current gold standard for coronary artery disease (CAD) diagnosis, a new cost-effectiveness model* indicates that, in many Read more …
It will identify millions with ‘silent heart disease’
‘If you want to find a needle in a haystack, X-ray is a good tool. Now imagine how much easer that would be if the needle could glow.’
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Cardiovascular imaging
The US finally did it: radiologists and cardiologists got together to draft guidelines for cardiovascular imaging procedures and define quality standards. However, Europe still Read more …
Flat-panel detector technology (FPD)
Shimadzu specialises in the production of advanced medical imaging systems and equipment, clinical diagnostic systems, including CT, digital subtraction angiography, Read more …
