Cardiac Imaging: Page 24

New CT technique identifies blood vessel plaque

By Kate Madden Yee

A new CT technique can measure blood vessel inflammation, allowing doctors to identify and treat patients at risk for cardiovascular disease, according to a U.K. study published online 12 July in Science Translational Medicine.

July 12, 2017

3D ultrasound quantifies subclinical atherosclerosis

By Erik L. Ridley

While detecting subclinical atherosclerosis is useful, quantifying the plaque burden is even more valuable. A 3D vascular ultrasound method can reliably perform this task and help estimate cardiovascular risk, according to research published in the 18 July issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

July 10, 2017

GE, HeartFlow sign collaboration agreement

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

GE Healthcare and cardiovascular software developer HeartFlow have signed a global collaboration agreement to boost the clinical availability of HeartFlow FFR-CT, a technology that helps clinicians diagnose and treat patients with coronary artery disease.

July 5, 2017

Motion compensation improves cardiac PET

By Tami Freeman, PhD

Cardiac PET is used to measure tissue viability, myocardial perfusion, and functional parameters such as ejection fraction (EF). The EF provides valuable information for patients with heart disease. Now, researchers have developed a method to compensate for respiratory motion.

July 2, 2017

JFR 2017 expands international coverage

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The Journées Francophones de Radiologie (JFR) congress will for the second straight year allow non-French speakers to submit oral presentations in English for scientific sessions, according to the French Radiology Society (Société Française de Radiologie, SFR).

June 27, 2017

Elastography can help evaluate carotid plaque

By Erik L. Ridley

A shear-wave ultrasound elastography method can be used to evaluate the stability of carotid plaques, helping to identify those that are most vulnerable to rupturing and causing a stroke, according to a study published in the June issue of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.

June 22, 2017

Initial stress echo safe, cheap for high-risk patients

By Eric Barnes

Stress echocardiography is as effective and cheaper than direct referral to invasive coronary angiography in chest pain patients with a high pretest probability of coronary artery disease -- and appears competitive with rival coronary CT angiography as an initial exam.

June 20, 2017

DiACardio changes name

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Echocardiography image analysis software developer DiACardio has changed its name to DiA Imaging Analysis.

June 19, 2017

Philips relaunches Pioneer Plus IVUS catheter

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Royal Philips has relaunched its Pioneer Plus catheter, a re-entry device with intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) capabilities and needle deployment designed to assist arterial vessel intervention.

June 14, 2017

Biotronik receives new CE Mark for pacemakers

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Biomedical device company Biotronik has received the CE Mark for the use of its Edora, Evity, and Enitra series of pacemakers with 3-tesla MRI scanners.

June 13, 2017

3D-printed polymer stents evolve

By Eric Barnes

A new 3D-printed polymer stent overcomes many of the limitations of conventional nitinol stents for use with tissue-engineered heart valves, offering the potential of use in children, according to an article in 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing.

May 29, 2017

Fast cardiac MR scan can boost patient care

By Eric Barnes

A fast and relatively cheap cardiovascular MR (CMR) scan is a cost-effective way to scan large volumes of patients with a wide range of suspected heart conditions, said researchers from Peru in a presentation on 26 May at the EuroCMR 2017 meeting in Prague.

May 25, 2017

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