Cardiovascular Radiology: Page 40

Fraunhofer MeViS creates 3D heart movie

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Advanced visualization firm Fraunhofer MeViS, headquartered in Bremen, Germany, has developed a special functional 3D heart display for this month's exhibition at Ars Electronica Center's "Deep Space 8K" experience in Linz, Austria.

August 9, 2015

Kalender: Tell your patients about CT's benefits, not risks

CT is thriving, and instead of informing patients about the risk of radiation-induced cancer, now's the time to emphasize the upside of undergoing an examination, according to CT pioneer Willi Kalender, PhD. Tell them CT saves lives, he said in a special lecture.

August 4, 2015

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SFR mourns death of Dr. Jean-Claude Gaux

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The French Society of Radiology (SFR) has expressed its condolences over the death of Dr. Jean-Claude Gaux, who passed away on 9 July.

July 13, 2015

UKRC: Is outsourcing a silent killer or a savior?

LIVERPOOL - Emotions ran high and opinions were polarized during the second day of the U.K. Radiological Congress (UKRC), when a lively and heated discussion about the pros and cons of outsourcing took place.

June 30, 2015

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Group creates 3D printed heart with CT, echo data

Researchers from the U.S. have created a 3D model of a human heart using data from two cardiac imaging techniques: CT and echocardiography. The study was presented at last week's Catheter Interventions in Congenital, Structural, and Valvular Heart Disease meeting in Frankfurt, Germany.

June 28, 2015

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June 21, 2015

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

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

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Cardiac markers lead to new approach for chest pain

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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