May / June 2006

A revolutionary advancement in PET/CT, the GEMINI TF is the first PET/CT system that features time-of-flight PET imaging. The GEMINI TF offers new levels of image quality, consistency and performance — regardless of patient size. By improving image quality with low count-rate imaging, the new PET/CT system opens a pathway to the next emerging set of applications for PET — molecular imaging.

A new single-use biliary balloon dilator, MaxPass delivers procedural efficiency through rapid balloon deflation for the time-sensitive team conducting Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-Pancreatography (ERCP). It is designed to work with the Olympus JF/TJF and V-System duodenoscopes.

Providing morphology, function, tissue characterization and 3D coronary anatomy in a single tool, syngo BEAT is available with the Tim (Total imaging matrix) technology application suite.

I only just heard the term “positive remodeling” for the first time last fall, and I assumed it was something, well, positive, like a self-mending process of some sort. But in the cardiac context of arterial remodeling, which refers to the build-up of plaque in the coronary arteries, positive remodeling is the worse of two types.