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CTA motion model aims to improve cardiac function analysis

By Eric Barnes

Dutch researchers used an automated coronary artery motion model to analyze cardiac function from electrocardiogram-gated coronary CT angiography (CTA) data. The method promises to improve cardiac function analysis and reconstruction interval selection, and even provide new information on coronary artery motion at different heart rates.

January 10, 2010

Automated segmentation could improve fetal heart echo

By Eric Barnes

A new method of segmenting the fetal heart with echocardiography could improve the evaluation of congenital heart defects compared to the time-consuming manual segmentation in use today, according to researchers from the U.K.

November 5, 2009

Toshiba launches ultrasound scanner

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Toshiba Medical Systems Europe unveiled a new ultrasound scanner in Europe this week, as well as a new grayscale image processing technology.

October 12, 2009

RSA completes German install

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

RSA Biomedical has installed its mdesk orthopedic preoperative planning and templating system at Lubinus Clinicum in Kiel, Germany.

October 5, 2009

Advanced image processing stitches together CE images

By Eric Barnes

An image processing technique forged in Japan could make wireless capsule endoscopy (CE) more useful by analyzing and cobbling together the somewhat unpredictable sequence of small intestine images generated by the tiny capsule endoscopy cameras.

August 30, 2009

Sophisticated electronic bowel cleansing boosts polyp detection

By Eric Barnes

A new suite of investigational image-processing tools known as structure-analysis cleansing is improving the results of virtual colonoscopy scans performed after limited bowel preparation. The goal is to make virtual colonoscopy easier on patients and persuade them to get screened for colorectal cancer.

August 2, 2009

Visage nets German installation

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Advanced visualization firm Visage Imaging has installed its Visage CS software at Marienkrankenhaus in Hamburg.

July 13, 2009

CARS report: Liver segmentation tool allows manual fixes

By Eric Barnes

BERLIN - German researchers believe they have found a better way to preserve the best aspects of automated and manual segmentation in CT liver images, according to a presentation at the Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) meeting.

June 30, 2009

CARS report: Personalized medicine will dominate future care

By Eric Barnes

BERLIN - Medicine is undergoing a historic transition, moving away from a cookie-cutter model of care and toward individualized treatment strategies based on patient-specific models of disease and treatment. Imaging, biology, and mathematics are at the center of this new paradigm, according to Dr. Michael Vannier, who spoke at the opening of the 2009 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) meeting.

June 25, 2009

ContextVision signs Asian partner

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Swedish image enhancement developer ContextVision has inked a new Asian partner for distribution of its GOPView iRVPlus interventional radiology imaging software.

June 22, 2009

MR stress alone sufficient for myocardial perfusion

By Eric Barnes

Use of an automated postprocessing tool eliminates the need for both a stress and rest exam in myocardial perfusion MRI, according to researchers from Germany. They found that quantitative assessment of stress MRI images alone delivers the same diagnostic performance as semiquantitative evaluation of both stress and rest perfusion exams.

June 11, 2009

OR Technology wins South African contract

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

German image processing and PACS provider OR Technology has signed a contract with a hospital in South Africa, the company said.

May 27, 2009

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