Cardiac Imaging

The cardiac imaging channel includes the modalities of computed tomography (CT), cardiac ultrasound (echocardiography), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear imaging (PET and SPECT), and angiography.

Videos | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

VIDEO: New MRI Safer to Scan Patients With Cardiac Implantable Devices

Orlando Simonetti, Ph.D., professor, cardiovascular medicine, worked with Siemens to help develop a new, lower-field mag ...

January 18, 2022

Cydar EV Maps assists in the planning, real-time guidance, and post-procedure review of endovascular surgery. It brings cloud-based AI and computer vision to mobile surgery, enabling reductions in radiation exposure, fluoroscopy time, and procedure time.

News | Cath Lab Navigation Aids

Endovascular 3D Image Guidance Added to Philips Zenition Mobile C-arm

January 18, 2022 – Philips Healthcare announced physicians will now have access to advanced new 3D image guidance ...

January 18, 2022

The ASE released new guidelines for pre-procedural structural heart echo imaging assessments. This image showing the aortic and mitral valves in life-like TrueView rendering is from a Philips Epiq CV version 9.0 system.

News | Structural Heart

New ASE Guideline Outlines Acquisition of Essential Transesophaegal Echo Images in Structural Heart Prior to Intervention

January 17, 2022 – As the increasing number of structural heart interventions are assisted by real-time imaging guidance ...

January 17, 2022

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The cardiology information system (CVIS) — IntelliSpace Cardiovascular from Philips Healthcare, being used in the cath lab.

Blog | Cardiovascular Information Systems (CVIS)

Philips' IntelliSpace Cardiovascular Streamlines Care at Florida Facility

Cardiologists need information from multiple sources to make accurate diagnoses and plan interventional therapies. The ...

March 29, 2018

Videos | Artificial Intelligence

VIDEO: Examples of Artificial Intelligence PE Response Team Apps

Here are two examples of artificial intelligence (AI) driven pulmonary embolism (PE) response team apps featured by ...

January 13, 2022

$The Pie Medical Imaging angiography-based vessel fractional flow reserve (CAAS vFFR) technology can use angiography imaging alone to assess FFR without the need for pressure wires or adenosine.$

News | FFR Technologies

European Trial Evaluates Angiography Vessel Fractional Flow Reserve (vFFR) Guided PCI Versus Conventional FFR

January 4, 2022 - Pie Medical Imaging (PMI), a global leader in cardiac imaging, part of the Esaote Group, recently ...

January 04, 2022

Happy New Year from Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC)

News | Cardiovascular Business

Happy New Year from the DAIC Team

Wishing you a healthy and happy New Year from the DAIC team. Look for many exciting new changes to come in 2022!

January 01, 2022

Vascular network (red) in healthy heart tissue (left) and in severe Covid-19 (right). Due to faulty reforming of the network as a result of Covid-19, numerous branches, splits and even loops develop in the capillaries, which can be analysed mathematically. Image courtesy of M. Reichardt, P. Møller Jensen, T. Salditt

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Innovative X-ray Imaging Shows COVID-19 Can Cause Vascular Damage to the Heart

December 23, 2021 — An interdisciplinary research team from the University of Göttingen and Hannover Medical School (MHH ...

December 23, 2021

RSIP Vision introduced a new coronary artery modeling technology that enables quick and accurate reconstruction of the coronary vasculature during angiography into a 3D model in the cath lab.

News | Cath Lab

New RSIP Vision Technology Aids Noninvasive Planning of Coronary Intervention

December 14, 2021 — RSIP Vision, a medical imaging company applying advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and computer ...

December 14, 2021

Videos | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

VIDEO: Study Reviews Severity of COVID-19 Heart Inflammation in College Athletes

Jean Jeudy, M.D., professor of radiology and vice chair of informatics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine ...

December 14, 2021

An example of HeartFlow's FFR-CT assessment, which shows areas of low blood flow based on computation fluid dynamics from a CT scan of the heart. The vendor's new PreRead software will use AI to clearly and reproducibly identify areas of ischemia due to coronary artery occlusion and act as a second set of eyes for emergency rooms evlautaing chest pain patients.

News | FFR Technologies

HeartFlow Files for FDA Review to Evaluate the Coronary Occlusions and Plaque

December 13, 2021 - HeartFlow Inc., the leader in revolutionizing precision heart care, today announced it has submitted ...

December 13, 2021

Videos | Radiation Dose Management

VIDEO: Demonstration of the Radiaction Cath Lab Radiation Protection System

The vendor Radiaction introduced a new type of scatter radiation protection shielding system that mounts to the ...

December 10, 2021

The new X5-1c transducer uses Philips' nSIGHT Plus is a proprietary imaging architecture that touches all aspects of image acquisition and processing, creating images with optimal resolution down to the pixel level, in contrast with conventional systems that form the image line by line. #EuroEcho #EuroEcho21

News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Philips Introduces New Transducer Technology, AI-driven Automated Measurements and Remote Access

December 9, 2021 – Philips Healthcare expanded its cardiac ultrasound portfolio with new imaging tools and features to ...

December 09, 2021

Videos | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

VIDEO: Cardiac MRI Assessment of Myocarditis Caused by COVID-19 Vaccinations

Kate Hanneman, M.D., MPH FRCPC, director of cardiac imaging research JDMI, and the medical imaging site director at ...

December 06, 2021

Two of the most read stories in November included CMS requiring all healthcare workers to get vaccinated by Jan. 4 and the FDA clearance of the first photon-counting CT system. The new CT technology is expected to be a paradigm shift in the future of CT technology over the next decade.

Feature | By Dave Fornell, DAIC Editor

December 3, 2021 — Here is the list of the most popular content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) m ...

December 03, 2021

Dia's artificial intelligence automation or point-of-care cardiac ultrasound on display at the 2021 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting.

News | Artificial Intelligence

Mount Sinai Study Validates DiA Cardiac Ultrasound AI Algorithm and Finds it Comparable to Cardiac MRI

December 2, 2021 — Artificial intelligence (AI) vendor DiA Imaging Analysis was featured in a recent study presented by ...

December 02, 2021