Advanced Visualization: Page 120

Pie adds to CAAS software

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Dutch imaging firm Pie Medical Imaging has added bifurcation analysis functionality to the latest release of its CAAS image analysis software.

October 17, 2007

Italian multicenter VC trial screens higher-risk cohort

By Eric Barnes

BOSTON - One of the largest virtual colonoscopy trials ever aimed at a higher-risk screening population has yielded good results across 12 sites in Italy. Researchers presented the first results of the study on Tuesday at the International Symposium on Virtual Colonoscopy.

October 16, 2007

Advanced liver imaging shapes surgical strategies

By Eric Barnes

The days of planning liver interventions on the strength of a few CT or MR reconstructions may be numbered. Researchers from Germany and beyond are honing a set of advanced planning tools that not only provide high-resolution color-coded 3D visualization of the liver parenchyma and vasculature, but offer quantitative views of the intrahepatic vessel branching system and the risks of cutting at a given point in the organ.

September 17, 2007

Study: CT market expands in Europe

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The growing potential of cardiac imaging applications, the scope for innovation in various new clinical applications, and the constant improvement in the speed of scans are three drivers of the European CT market.

September 3, 2007

TomTec launches 4D ultrasound

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Ultrasound visualization developer TomTec Imaging Systems said it plans to debut a new version of its 4D RV-Function software at the 2007 European Society of Cardiology congress, to be held September 1-5 in Vienna, Austria.

August 29, 2007

Giant virtual reality chamber boosts 3D echo accuracy

By Eric Barnes

Have you ever diagnosed a three-foot-tall 3D heart? Talk about cardiomegaly. Researchers from the Netherlands who survived the experience found they could diagnose valve defects that went unnoticed in a standard 2D exam. At the 2007 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) meeting in Berlin, Anton Koning, Ph.D., from Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam discussed how 3D visualizes complex pathology of the heart and how image display can be improved with different kinds of VR (virtual reality) systems.

August 1, 2007

Medicsight, Barco sign global pact

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Computer-aided detection (CAD) firm Medicsight of London has signed a global distribution contract with image display and advanced visualization software developer Barco of Kortrijk, Belgium.

July 22, 2007

Fecal test, sigmoidoscopy effective for colorectal cancer screening

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 12 - Both fecal occult blood testing and flexible sigmoidoscopy represent feasible and acceptable approaches to colorectal cancer screening in normal-risk men and women, Italian researchers conclude. The six-center study included more than 18,000 randomly selected patients between 55 and 64 years old who hadn't been screened for colorectal cancer in the past two years.

July 11, 2007

Ziehm's IGS system to enter the U.K.

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Xograph Healthcare of Tetbury, Gloucestershire, U.K., will supply Ziehm Imaging's Cappa IS digital mobile C-arm with fully integrated surgical navigation system to the U.K. and Ireland.

June 27, 2007

Viatronix, Medicsight net CE Mark

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Advanced visualization firm Viatronix and computer-aided detection (CAD) partner Medicsight of London have jointly released their integrated virtual colonoscopy CAD offering in Europe.

June 12, 2007

ContextVision signs OEM contracts

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Swedish image enhancement developer ContextVision has signed three long-term North American OEM agreements for its GOPView image enhancement software.

June 11, 2007

InSightec nabs CE Mark

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Focused-ultrasound developer InSightec announced that its ExAblate 2000 system has received the European CE Mark certification for pain palliation of bone metastases.

June 6, 2007

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