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September 18, 2007- With PET-guided lead placement, cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) can achieve significant clinical improvement in patients with severe ischemic heart failure, even in the...

September 13, 2007 - Numa, a nuclear medicine connectivity company, introduced NumaStore Lite Image Management Solution for nuclear cardiology, PET and today’s multimodality images, at the...

September 4, 2007- New recommendations released today in the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography further support the role of stress echo in accurately identifying coronary artery...

August 21, 2007 - Vital Images announced it has released its next-generation enterprise-wide advanced visualization and analysis product solutions with the release of Vitrea 4.0 and ViTALConnect...

August 15, 2007 — ProSolv CardioVascular, a FUJIFILM company, announced that it is the newest MedAxiom Corporate Partner.

August 1, 2007 - Positron Corp. announced that a recent study by The State University of New York at Buffalo reveals that Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanning when used as the first tool to...

June 25, 2007 - Philips demonstrated the new Live 3D transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) probe, the X7-2t, at the 18th Annual American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) Scientific Sessions in...

June 21, 2007 - The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) today announced the election of Thomas Ryan, M.D., director of the Ohio State University Heart Center in Columbus, OH and heart...

June 18, 2007 - Kardia Health Systems launched Echocardiography Information Management System (EIMS), a web-based workflow-management software for echocardiography labs, at the ASE Scientific...

June 14, 2007 — HD Medical Group Ltd. recently announced the ViScope 100 series, an audio-visual auscultation tool for effective cardiac triage.

The experimental device, which may be...

May 29, 2007 — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on May 25 a decision to provide coverage for Doppler monitoring of cardiac output in certain settings, removing the...

April 30, 2007 – Precision Imaging has opened a new, highly advanced imaging center in Jacksonville, FL, combining state-of-the-art clinical imaging equipment and software to create a preventive...

April 26, 2007 — Northwest Center for Congenital Heart Disease has announced the establishment of an imaging network to improve cardiac services provided to patients throughout the Inland...

April 24, 2007 — Ascent Healthcare Solutions announced today that the FDA has increased the number of times that Ascent can reprocess the Siemens AcuNav Ultrasound Catheter from two to up to four...

April 12, 2007 — Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have invented a new imaging technology that may hold the key to not only stopping heart attacks in their tracks but also preventing...

April 3, 2007 —FoxHollow Technologies Inc. has announced it has submitted a 510(k) premarket notification to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its NightHawk Plaque Excision System. The...

April 3, 2007 — GE Healthcare and Volcano Corp. have successfully implemented, at multiple sites, Innova IVUS, the world's only fully Integrated IVUS and Cath Lab system. An exclusive...

March 28, 2007 - With an estimated 70 million Americans currently living with cardiovascular disease, the demand for services in the catheterization ("cath") lab continues to escalate. In fact, an...

Jan. 19, 2007 — Biosense Webster made two agreements public this week with healthcare competitor modality giants Philips and Siemens.

January 9, 2007 - Konica Minolta Medical Imaging announced that it has been awarded contract positions with Amerinet, a group purchasing organization (GPO), for computed radiography, laser...

Viking Systems Inc., a designer of 3D and 2D high-performance surgical visualization systems, has launched the Viking Systems ViCam Vision System for monitoring, managing and recording complex...

The diagnostic tools are in place, but the connection between imaging machines and data management systems needs to be tighter if cardiovascular practices are going to keep up with the ever-...

Researchers in The Netherlands say they’ve realized the dream of truly interactive 3-D medical imaging: A company called Crosslinks is working to develop and market a software invention in Europe...