Interventional: Page 21

Siemens installs Artis zee at U.K. hospital

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Siemens Healthcare has installed its Artis zee system at Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Lancashire, U.K. The floor-mounted system with a 20 x 20 detector is being used for interventional cardiology in the hospital's newly opened interventional laboratory.

November 29, 2011

Vascular Designs gets CE Mark for infusion catheter

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Infusion catheter manufacturer Vascular Designs has received CE Mark approval for its IsoFlow infusion catheter.

November 14, 2011

Off-label use merits attention in interventional radiology

By Cynthia E. Keen

A weeklong audit of interventional radiology procedures conducted in Liverpool, U.K., showed that off-label use of drugs and medical devices were used in more than 80% of the performed procedures. The researchers published their findings online in Clinical Radiology.

November 9, 2011

Germans act creatively to make MR-guided biopsies viable

By Philip Ward

MR-guided biopsies can produce valuable results, but often they are time-consuming and expensive. To make them a more realistic clinical proposition, it is vital to cut the preparation time, obtain fewer image acquisitions, and involve experienced interventional radiologists, researchers from the University of Tübingen in Germany have reported.

October 11, 2011

Avinger obtains CE Mark for catheter

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Cardiology catheter manufacturer Avinger has received CE Mark approval for its Ocelot catheter.

September 27, 2011

Boston Scientific releases Coyote catheter

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Interventional technology developer Boston Scientific has unveiled Coyote, a low-profile, 0.014-inch balloon dilatation catheter for treating patients receiving peripheral angioplasty procedures below the knee.

September 18, 2011

TeraRecon highlights iNtuition Cloud at CIRSE

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Advanced visualization firm TeraRecon is highlighting its iNtuition Cloud software to interventional radiology professionals attending the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE) meeting, held on 10-14 September in Munich.

September 12, 2011

Back to the future: Interventional suite advances

By Eric Barnes

The interventional radiology suite of tomorrow is already developed and ready to go -- notwithstanding the minor detail of clinical experience -- with robust systems capable of working with humans to perform any number of tasks more accurately than traditional methods, and often with less radiation exposure.

September 11, 2011

CT guidance tool halves dose by skipping redundancies

By Eric Barnes

CT has become increasingly popular for guiding interventional procedures such as needle placements, but these scans may be packing more dose than necessary. Researchers in China have found a way to cut the radiation dose by eliminating the need to perform multiple scans of the same area.

August 8, 2011

GE teams with Endosense

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

GE Healthcare and catheter ablation technology developer Endosense have inked a joint development agreement.

July 5, 2011

Cook touts multicenter biopsy study

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Interventional technology firm Cook Medical is touting a study that suggests a new large-core biopsy needle used with an endoscopic ultrasound scope can aid pathologists in diagnosing multiple types of cancers in various target tissues with a high degree of accuracy.

June 6, 2011

Calcium scoring technique skips separate CT scan

By Eric Barnes

Australian researchers have combined coronary CT angiography and coronary artery calcium scoring in a single scan, saving time and reducing CT radiation dose by at least one-third.

May 17, 2011

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