Cardiac Imaging: Page 10

PET/CT rules supreme in cases of neuroendocrine tumors
By Philip Ward
PET/CT has no rivals when it comes to the detection and surveillance of cardiac metastases in well-differentiated gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors as well as guiding clinical management, according to research presented at the annual congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine.
October 26, 2020
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Patient dies after mix-up over CT scan
By Philip Ward
An inquest has heard a 28-year-old man with a heart disorder and chest pain died two days after a doctor at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn, U.K., viewed the wrong CT scan and sent him home. The radiology department has now changed its procedures and will soon upgrade the PACS, according to a report posted on 19 October by BBC News.
October 19, 2020
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Breast CT can predict cardiovascular disease risk
By Theresa Pablos
A research group led by Prof. Helena Verkooijen from UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands, has used CT scans of coronary artery calcium to predict which patients undergoing treatment for breast cancer are at a greater risk of developing cardiovascular disease. They reported their findings at the recent European Breast Cancer Conference.
October 13, 2020
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Ultromics, Mayo Clinic partner again in echo AI
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
U.K. software developer Ultromics will be collaborating with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, to apply artificial intelligence (AI) software to diagnose heart failure on echocardiography studies.
September 28, 2020
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AI aids diagnosis of heart failure on chest x-rays
By Erik L. Ridley
Deep learning is useful for diagnosing heart failure on x-ray images, researchers reported at the recent European Society of Cardiology virtual congress. They used chest x-rays from a publicly available database to train an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that yielded 82% accuracy for detecting heart failure on a test dataset.
September 15, 2020
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European investigators shine new light on endocarditis
By Philip Ward
The diagnosis of infective endocarditis remains a serious clinical challenge, but F-18 FDG PET/CT is making progress and can be an extremely useful modality in these patients, with good sensitivity and specificity, three different research groups from Portugal, France, and Italy reported at the recent European Society of Cardiology virtual congress.
September 8, 2020
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MRI advances in sickle cell disease, heart transplants
By Philip Ward
The sustained clinical progress being made in the use of MRI to evaluate cardiac function in sickle cell disease and identify inflammation as a cause of graft dysfunction in heart transplant patients was evident in two separate eye-catching presentations made at this week's European Society of Cardiology congress.
August 31, 2020
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Philips launches new Affiniti CVx scanner at ESC 2020
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Philips Healthcare is launching a new dedicated cardiovascular ultrasound scanner, Affiniti CVx, at this week's European Society of Cardiology (ESC) annual meeting.
August 27, 2020
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3D printing transforms congenital heart disease diagnosis
By Edna Astbury-Ward, PhD
The emergence of 3D printing, along with volume rendering and 3D modeling software, is making it easier to define complex cardiovascular anatomy and extracardiac vascular structures, and these technologies now play a pivotal role in the diagnosis of congenital heart disease, award-winning Spanish researchers have reported.
August 18, 2020
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Digisonics integrates with Pie analysis software
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Image management firm Digisonics has partnered with imaging software firm Pie Medical Imaging to provide image analysis and structured reporting for cardiac catheterization, MR, and CT studies.
August 12, 2020
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GE, Osprey announce distribution deal
GE Healthcare and Osprey Medical have signed a four-year agreement under which GE will distribute Osprey's DyeVert contrast minimization device in Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, and Turkey.
August 5, 2020
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Can AI give radiology the urgent jump-start it needs?
By Ross Upton, PhD
In the past, healthcare has adopted new technology at a similar pace to a supertanker. Now that the healthcare supertanker has been driven into the eye of the COVID-19 storm, there's a strong need to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) and new ways of working, writes Ross Upton, PhD.
August 5, 2020
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