Cardiac Imaging: Page 39

7T 3D sodium MRI delivers high-resolution heart images

By Eric Barnes

German and Irish researchers have completed what they are calling the first sodium MR images of the heart at 7 tesla to deliver high-resolution images at acceptable scan times, according to just-published research in NMR in Biomedicine.

June 21, 2015

Cardiac markers lead to new approach for chest pain

By Eric Barnes

The increasing use of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin markers in European hospitals is changing the practice of chest pain management in significant ways -- eliminating the need for coronary CT angiography in some cases, and increasing it in others, according to new research.

June 16, 2015

Seeing CT scans of own arteries provides wake-up call for patients

By Eric Barnes

Visualizing CT images of their own coronary artery calcifications prompts patients to make the important lifestyle changes they need to stay healthy, according to a new Danish study presented this week at the EuroHeartCare meeting in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

June 15, 2015

MDCT: Don't forget the heart in CT lung cancer screening

By Eric Barnes

SAN FRANCISCO - Radiologists who screen smokers for lung cancer with CT should remember to look at the heart as an important predictor of mortality in its own right, according to a Dutch presentation made on Tuesday, 9 June, at the International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT in San Francisco (MDCT).

June 14, 2015

Philips unwraps echo quantification tool

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Philips Healthcare is introducing its HeartModelA.I. cardiac ultrasound quantification software at this week's American Society of Echocardiography conference in Boston.

June 11, 2015

SNMMI: Amyloid scintigraphy predicts major cardiac events

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

A new scintigraphy molecular imaging scan can pinpoint the dangerous buildup of amyloid proteins in the heart and predict major adverse cardiac events, according to a study presented this week at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging conference in Baltimore.

June 7, 2015

MR fingerprinting returns -- and hopefully disappears again

By Dr. Peter Rinck, PhD

Some cardiologists have scientific shortcomings in imaging science, the Maverinck believes. The experiments, methods, and results described went out of date years ago; even dressed in "new clothes" they are inadequate and deficient in precision and accuracy, he writes. Radiologists have their own new clothes: MR fingerprinting.

June 2, 2015

HeartFlow promotes FFR study at EuroPCR

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Cardiac software developer HeartFlow is promoting a study at this week's EuroPCR 2015 meeting in Paris on the use of its fractional flow reserve (FFR) CT analysis software to assess the severity of coronary artery stenosis.

May 20, 2015

GE promotes Visipaque study

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

GE Healthcare is directing attention to abstracts presented at this week's EuroPCR Congress 2015 in Paris involving the use of its Visipaque isosmolar contrast agent.

May 20, 2015

EACVI accepting 2016 grant requests

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) said it's now accepting applications for training and research grants for 2016.

May 19, 2015

DRK: How elastic is the heart?

Measurement of cardiac muscle elasticity using elastography is showing considerable clinical promise, researchers from Berlin told delegates at last week's German Radiology Congress (DRK) in Hamburg.

May 17, 2015

DRK: Obese patients gain from fast abdominal fat studies

MRI analysis of abdominal fat can give an indication of cardiovascular risk in overweight and obese people, and new protocols developed at the Leipzig obesity clinic and presented at the German Congress of Radiology (DRK) can speed up this task.

May 14, 2015

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