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The Philips Step and Shoot Cardiac solution has reportedly been shown to save up to 80 percent of the dose in a cardiac exam. As the newest cardiac imaging innovation for the Philips Brilliance CT 64-channel scanner, it provides high quality CT images at low radiation dose. An axial prospective ECG-gated acquisition technique reportedly achieves full heart coverage within a short breath-hold.
October 16, 2007
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October 17, 2007 — The first trial to test whether medicated, drug-eluting (dispensing), stents can benefit patients who ...
October 16, 2007
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The FLAIR Endovascular Stent Graft treats stenoses (narrowing) at the venous anastomosis of synthetic arteriovenous (AV) grafts in hemodialysis patients to increase blood flow.
October 16, 2007Sponsored Content
Feature | Nuclear Imaging
Cardiac PET/CT represents a major advancement in cardiovascular diagnostics, offering significant clinical and ...
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October 17, 2007 – Siemens Medical Solutions today announced that it recently received FDA 510(k) clearance for a 1.5 ...
October 16, 2007
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The Toshiba Aquilion CT line’s product platform design reportedly allows for all customers to benefit from Toshiba’s ...
October 16, 2007News
October 17, 2007 - Compared to bare metal stents, in patients with acute myocardial infarction, sirolimus-eluting stent ...
October 16, 2007Sponsored Content
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SPONSORED CONTENT — Studycast is a comprehensive imaging workflow system that allows healthcare professionals to work ...
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Agfa HealthCare’s DX-S reportedly fills the gap in the current range of Digital Radiography Solutions by providing a ...
October 16, 2007News
October 17, 2007 — Patients with heart disease who undergo coronary angioplasty have an equivalent risk of death and heart attack as patients who undergo coronary bypass surgery, according to Stanford University School of Medicine researchers.
October 16, 2007Technology
The FDA gave ZOLL Medical Corp., a manufacturer of resuscitation devices and related software solutions, clearance to market and sell the ZOLL AED Pro with See-Thru CPR technology, which is designed to help minimize interruptions in CPR. ZOLL aims to comply with a key recommendation of the American Heart Association’s Guidelines for Advanced Cardiac Life Support.
October 16, 2007Sponsored Content
Feature | Information Technology
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
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October 17, 2007 - Positron Corp. introduced its new dedicated-Cardiac PET system, Attrius, at the annual meeting of the ...
October 16, 2007
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Building on the foundation of GE Healthcare’s CT platform, the LightSpeed VCT XT is reportedly capable of capturing ...
October 16, 2007News
October 17, 2007 - Boston Scientific Corp. will be presenting safety and efficacy data on its TAXUS Express2 and TAXUS ...
October 16, 2007Sponsored Content
Feature | Cardiac Imaging
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
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The KODAK DIRECTVIEW Classic and Elite Computed Radiography Systems are compact, floor standing, single-cassette CR ...
October 16, 2007News
October 17, 2007 - CryoCor, Inc., a medical device company focused on the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, announced today that CryoCath Technologies Inc. has filed a lawsuit against CryoCor in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware alleging that CryoCor infringes several of CryoCath’s U.S. patents.
October 16, 2007
Feature | Maureen Leahy-Patano
The clinical definition of intraoperative awareness — consciousness during general anesthesia — is a seemingly simple explanation for a complex, and controversial, phenomenon. Opinions surrounding how often intraoperative awareness, also described as anesthesia awareness, occurs, its implications for victims, as well as the best methods for prevention are varied.
October 15, 2007