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GE Healthcare Features New Innova Capabilities

GE Healthcare will highlight new capabilities for its Innova series of interventional X-ray equipment at TCT 2008. GE will also announce a new offering in its collaboration with Biosense Webster Inc....

High-Definition Ultrasound Designed for Cut Costs, Not Quality

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Ultrasound Acquires Nonstitched Images in Single Heartbeat

The ACUSON SC2000 volume imaging ultrasound system acquires nonstitched, real-time full-volume 3D images of the heart in one single heart cycle.
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HD CT System Drops Cardiac Imaging Dose 83 Percent

The FDA cleared GE Healthcare’s new LightSpeed CT750 HD, said to be the world’s first high-definition CT scanner that produces images 100 times faster with up to 33 percent greater detail through the ...

Astellas Launches New Stress Agent for Radionuclide MPI

Lexiscan (regadenoson) injection is an A2A adenosine receptor agonist for use as a pharmacologic stress agent in radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) in patients unable to undergo adequate ...

SPECT/CT Captures Low Dose, High-Res CT Images

The Philips BrightView XCT integrates Philips BrightView SPECT in a coplanar design with advanced flat-detector X-ray CT technology to acquire low dose, high resolution CT images and to improve regist...

New Ultrasound Agent for Heart Disease Submitted to FDA

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Philips Launches HD7 Ultrasound in U.S. Market

The latest addition to its HD ultrasound family of products, the Philips HD7, has launched in the U.S....

St. Jude Medical Offers New Insight with EnSite v8.0

St. Jude Medical Inc. released its EnSite System Version 8.0, software designed to intuitively visualize the anatomy of the heart to diagnose and treat abnormal heart rhythms.

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Siemens’ Ultrasound Catheter Couples with Third Party System

May 21, 2008 - On the Heart Rhythm 2008 exhibit hall floor, Siemens Healthcare said it will extend its strategic alliance with Biosense Webster by opening up the ACUSON AcuNav ultrasound catheter for ...

Stereotaxis Highlighted Bi-Directional Transmission Network

Stereotaxis highlighted at Heart Rhythm 08 its Odyssey Network, a system designed to fully integrate all of the systems in a typical EP lab around its information management platform, and to connect l...

FDA Clears First HD CT Scanner

The FDA cleared GE Healthcare’s new LightSpeed CT750 HD, said to be the world’s first high definition CT scanner that produces images 100 times faster with up to 33 percent greater detail through the ...

New Cardiovascular US Provides Mobility, Full Size LCD Monitor

GE Healthcare launched its new mobile Vivid S5 cardiovascular ultrasound system, created for multiple care areas, featuring a full sized 17-inch LCD monitor, three active transducer connectors and roo...

Siemens Gets FDA Clearance for Artis zeego

Siemens received FDA 510(k) clearance for Artis zeego, a robotic-assisted positioning capability for interventions in both radiology and cardiology, as well as the developing OR environment, designed ...

Philips Releases New CIMS

The new Xcelera R2.2, the latest version of Philips' Xcelera multimodality cardiology image management, analysis and reporting solution, offeres improved support for imaging studies and data from k...

GE Filed New 510(k) for Enhanced 9900 C-Arms

After GE Healthcare implemented enhancements to the OEC 9900 Elite C-arm, a fluoroscopy device that uses x-rays to reveal real-time imagery of a patient's internal structure, it filed a new 510(k) for...

Near Infrared Diffuse Spectroscopy Laser Targets Coronary Artery Disease

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VeinViewer Projects Images of Veins Directly on the Skin

The VeinViewer by Luminetx is a vascular imaging system that allows physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals to clearly see accessible vasculature (or lack thereof) in real time....

Web-based Tool Allows for Access to 4D Advanced Visualization

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MEDRAD Contrast Media Injection Device Adds Safety, Design

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Synapse 3.2.1. Gets Face Lift

FUJIFILM’s Synapse 3.2.1 software, an extension of version 3.2, with a new Graphic User Interface (GUI), will be featured at SIIM 2008....

Medifico Targeting Vital Brain Disorder Treatment Launch of Life-Saving Brainvue-TCD

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Carestream Debuts News New Turnkey 3D Solution

Carestream Health’s new turnkey Carestream Virtual 3D Solution provides the same advanced 3D processing, comparative viewing of MR and CT studies and other functionality that is currently integrated w...

Toshiba Shows New FDA Cleared Ultrasound at ACC '08

Toshiba America Medical Systems presented the FDA 510(k) cleared Artida ultrasound system, designed to meet the demands of the growing cardiac 4D market, today at the American College of Cardiology's ...

New Design Feature to Boast Versatility

GE will highlight a new design concept for its Vivid S5 cardiovascular ultrasound system, combining features from its Vivid I and Vivid 7, designed for use in multiple clinical settings.
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