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March 11, 2009 - The Guidelines for the Interpretation and Reporting of Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography report, published by the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT),...

March 10, 2009 - Today, the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) published a Guidelines for the Interpretation and Reporting of Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography report,...

March 10, 2009 - Interventional radiologists are using image-guided stem cell therapy to create new or more blood vessels to treat peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in those individuals with...

March 9, 2009 – The Cardiology Clinic of San Antonio and Cardiology Consultants of Houston in Texas have chosen Digisonics’ DigiNet Pro System for their cardiovascular image management and...

March 10, 2009 - ProSolv CardioVascular, a FUJIFILM company, has released its newest software version Synapse ProSolv cardiovascular 4.0.1, featuring an integrated ECG management capability and...

March 9, 2009 - Ziosoft’s new monthly subscription program for its Ziostation software will allow facilities to utilize Ziosoft's thin-client system immediately without a capital investment....

iNtuition is TeraRecon's new, unified workflow platform, which delivers the best possible solution for advanced image management in an enterprise and an efficient way to manage workflow once the...

March 9, 2009 - A study, presented at the 21st European Congress of Radiology, comparing the performance of TeraRecon’s Aquarius iNtuition solution with a competitor’s solution for assessment of...

Researchers at the Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Hospitals said their findings, published in the March 1 issue of the American Journal of Cardiology, Vol....

March 5, 2009 - During the Best Peer Practice "Achieve Measurable Results Through CVIS" Webinar, attendees will learn how to use CVIS data to support quality initiatives and provide instant...

March 5, 2009 - TomTec is showcasing its brand-new CardioArena multimodality workstation for Cardio PACS during the upcoming ECR conference in Vienna, Austria.

The CardioArena platform is a...

March 4, 2009 - Positron Corp., a Cardiac Molecular Imaging Solutions Company, today released results from an independent study on radiation exposure of technologists administering FDG.

March 4, 2009 - Physicians will be able to move away from pure surgical approaches and utilize less invasive techniques for the treatment of structural heart disease with the help of...

March 4, 2009 – Customer ratings for GE Healthcare Devices Services, which provides service for telemetry, patient and holter monitors, in addition to cardiac stress, cardiology management and...

March 4, 2009 – INFINITT will present Xelis, a new line of clinical imaging tools using volume rendering and other post-processing techniques designed for improved visualization, treatment...

March 3, 2009 – NovaRad has released a new system for cardiovascular labs, hospitals and other sites requiring both a PACS and a cardiovascular reporting system (CRS).

At ECR 2009, Visage Imaging showcased its Visage CS 3.1, 3D software, which the company says is designed for speed.

Data from virtually all modalities can be viewed and processed, including...

March 2, 2009 - The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has created a summary of the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009,” aka "the stimulus bill," which includes...

March 2, 2009 - Results were released today from a clinical study of the quarter-time Xpress3.Cardiac, UltraSPECT's WBR (wide-beam reconstruction) image reconstruction algorithm used to create...

February 26, 2009 - The first 3D imaging results obtained with a new imaging technology called Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) produced reportedly unprecedented real-time images of arterial blood...

February 26, 2009 - In 2006, Americans were exposed to more than seven times as much ionizing radiation from medical procedures as was the case in the early 1980s, according to a new report on...

February 23, 2009 - Cardiovascular information systems (CVIS) are not delivering quantifiable financial benefits, according to cardiac cath lab directors who participated in an independent...

February 25, 2009 – The 2009 World Molecular Imaging Conference (WMIC 2009) abstract submission site is now open.

WMIC is using a new submission system, Abstract Central, a ScholarOne...

February 25, 2009 – The Kaleida Health Stroke Center at Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital in Buffalo, N.Y. has installed Toshiba’s Aquilion ONE dynamic volume CT system, making it the first U...

February 24, 2009 - Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. today said a paper published online in the February 2009 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology reinforces the clinical use...

February 24, 2009 - The Medipattern Corp. and NAVIX Diagnostix Inc., a leading provider of vascular ultrasound outsourcing solutions in the northeastern U.S., said that NAVIX will collect data for...

February 23, 2009 - Neuisys Imaging System Solutions announced that the FDA has granted 510(k) clearance of the NeuViz 16, a multislice computed tomography (CT) system, which was developed by...

February 20, 2009 - The Academy of Molecular Imaging recommends that PET imaging facilities closely monitor NOPR communications and be prepared for coverage changes on the date the final coverage...

February 19, 2009 - Acusphere Inc. today submitted an amendment to its new drug application (NDA) for its ultrasound contrast agent Imagify (perflubutane polymer microspheres for injectable...

February 19, 2009 – Siemens Healthcare released the Symbia E single detector imaging system to its Symbia family of scanners.

The Symbia E is designed to be a a high-quality, cost-...

February 19, 2009 - The Society for Women's Health Research and the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) reminded women of the diagnostic technology available that can detect heart...

February 18, 2009 – GE Healthcare said the new Discovery PET/CT 600-series scanners, designed to help enable earlier detection and accurate monitoring of disease, are being installed globally.

February 17, 2009 - The total PET and PET/CT patient studies increased only 4 percent, from 1,457,400 to 1,520,800, compared to estimates for 2007 provided by respondents to a 2008 survey by IMV...

February 16, 2009 - Registration is now open for the Heart Rhythm Society’s free Reality EP Webcast, “Role of 3D ICE and Epicardial Mapping in the Ablation of Ventricular Outflow Tract Tachycardia...

February 16, 2009 - Agfa HealthCare said today it completed the deployment of its IMPAX HeartStation ECG Management System at the National Heart Centre in Singapore.

February 13, 2009 – Toshiba America Medical Systems launched the Aquilion Premium CT system with the capability to cover up to 8 cm in a single rotation.
The Aquilion Premium rounds out the...

February 4, 2009 - Calgary Scientific Inc. launched the multi patent-pending PureWeb Platform, a medical application platform designed to enable both Calgary Scientific’s ResolutionMD products...

February 4, 2009 - According to a new market research report released this month by market research firm IMV Medical Information Division, the adoption of 64-slice CT equipment by cardiology...

February 2, 2009 - CardiArc, Inc., along with Clinical Engineering Consultants Inc. (CEC) of Erlanger, KY, today said CEC will provide field service for the CardiArc HD-SPECT system.

CEC...

February 3, 2009 – Barco closed the divestment operation of its Advanced Visualization (AVIS) activities to Toshiba Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, Japan, in a move by Barco to focus on its medical...

February 2, 2009 - Researchers at the Ohio State University Medical Center are using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging to assess the effects of a common treatment for sleep apnea on heart...

January 29, 2009 - GE Healthcare's Vascular Ultrasound group and The Medipattern Corp. said they are collaborating on the creation of Ultrasound-based Vascular Imaging Quantification Tools (...

January 28, 2009 - Philips is leading a major new European project, the SonoDrugs project, which uses focused ultrasound pulses and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to deliver and track...

January 20, 2009 – Emageon has been awarded a five-year HeartSuite VERICIS cardiology contract with MultiCare Health System, an integrated health organization made up of four hospitals in the...

January 8, 2009 - Two RSNA exhibits featuring Aquarius iNtuition by TeraRecon won Cum Laude awards at the recent 94th annual Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Scientific Assembly at...

January 6, 2009 - Ziosoft Inc., an advanced visualization and analysis software for medical imaging, today received 510(k) clearance from the FDA for its CT brain perfusion application, which is...

January 6, 2009 - LightLab Imaging Inc. said the number of clinical intravascular optical coherence tomography (OCT) procedures using the company's OCT systems has surpassed 10,000.

OCT is...

December 31, 2008 – According to results from a Phase 2 clinical study (BP-23), Zemiva, when combined with the standard of care for the diagnostic evaluation of the chest pain patient, improved...

December 31, 2008 - The FDA today approved Vasovist Injection (gadofosveset trisodium), manufactured by EPIX Pharmaceuticals, is reportedly the first contrast imaging agent for use in patients...

December 30, 2008 - Sapheneia, a global, ISO-certified imaging services company specializing in diagnostic and analytical image processing solutions, signed an agreement with Karolinska University...

December 30, 2008 - Volcano Corp. will acquire Axsun Technologies Inc., a developer and manufacturer of lasers and optical engines used in medical Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging...

December 29, 2008 – When Zemiva, an imaging agent by Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals Inc., is combined with the standard of care for the diagnostic evaluation of the chest pain patient, improved...

December 23, 2008 – The FDA approved for marketing EPIX Pharmaceuticals’ novel blood pool magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) agent, Vasovist (gadofosveset trisodium), to evaluate aortoiliac...

December 23, 2008 - Volcano Corp., a manufacturer of products for the diagnosis and treatment of coronary and peripheral artery disease, said today that it has entered into a definitive agreement...

December 15, 2008 - Lantheus Medical Imaging reported that new data from a retrospective, multicenter, cohort study of over four million hospitalized patients showed similar unadjusted mortality...

December 10, 2008 - New research has found that the availability of a portable eight-slice computed tomography (CT) scanner in an emergency room can significantly increase the number of stroke...