Cath Lab Navigation Aids

This channel includes news and new technology innovations for navigation aids to help guide interventional procedures. These include advanced imaging, fusion imaging, rotational angiograpy, fluoro overlay images, robotic systems, and 3D printing and holograms for use in the interventional lab or cath lab.

Conavi Will Commercialize Intravascular Image Guidance Technology With $20 Million in Funding
December 15, 2021 — Conavi Medical Inc. has entered into agreements for over $20 million in funding to support commercialization and growth as it prepares its innovative Novasight Hybrid System for ...
FDA Clears Abbott OCT Imaging Enhanced With Artificial Intelligence
August 5, 2021 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared clearance Abbott's latest optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging platform powered by the company's new Ultreon Software. It ...
Northwestern Medicine First in U.S. to Use Live 3D Intracardiac Echo for EP Procedure
July 21, 2021 — Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute recently became the first cardiovascular program in the United States to use a new real-time, 3-D intra-cardiac echocardiography ...
Mayo Clinic First to Use Next Generation 4D ICE System to Guide Structural Heart Procedures
July 16, 2021 — Mayo Clinic recently became the first to use a next-generation 4-D intracardiac echo (ICE) imaging device in a patient to guide a transcatheter left atrial appendage (LAA) closure at ...

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

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

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

The Conavi Novasight hybrid intravascular imaging system that combines IVUS and OCT.

News | Intravascular Imaging

Conavi Will Commercialize Intravascular Image Guidance Technology With $20 Million in Funding

December 15, 2021 — Conavi Medical Inc. has entered into agreements for over $20 million in funding to support ...

December 15, 2021

RealView Imaging Holoscope-i Medical Holographic Imaging System

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RealView Imaging Receives FDA for Holoscope-i Medical Holographic Imaging System

November 15, 2021 — RealView Imaging Ltd. recently received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Holoscope-i holographic system ...

November 15, 2021

$Abbott's fractional flow reserve (FFR) system. #TCT #TCT21 #FAME3$

News | FFR Technologies

FAME 3 Study Finds FFR Guided PCI Did Not Perform as Well at One-year Compared to Bypass Surgery

November 9, 2021 — The primary results of the Fractional Flow Reserve Versus Angiography for Multivessel Evaluation ...

November 09, 2021

News | FFR Technologies

Systematic FFR Assessment Did Not Add Benefit During Diagnostic Angiography

September 8, 2021 — Adding systematic fractional flow reserve (FFR) assessment to coronary angiography does not reduce ...

September 08, 2021

Abbott's new interventional imaging platform powered by Ultreon 1.0 Software is a first-of-its-kind imaging software merges optical coherence tomography (OCT) intravascular imaging with the power of artificial intelligence (AI) for enhanced visualization. The new Ultreon Software can automatically detect the severity of calcium-based blockages and measure vessel diameter to enhance the precision of physicians’ decision-making during coronary stenting procedures.

News | Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)

FDA Clears Abbott OCT Imaging Enhanced With Artificial Intelligence

August 5, 2021 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared clearance Abbott's latest optical coherence ...

August 05, 2021

The CathWorks angiography image derived FFR assessment system has received national reimbursement approval in Japan. The system uses a rotational angiography image dataset taken while the patient is in the cath lab to quickly reconstruct a 3-D coronary tree showing FFR numbers for all of the artery segments.

News | FFR Technologies

CathWorks FFRangio System Receives National Reimbursement Approval in Japan

July 26, 2021 – CathWorks announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approved the ...

July 26, 2021

$An example of the Medis QCA angiography imaging derived fractional flow reserve (FFR) assessment. This technology removes the need for pressure wires and adenosine used in traditional FFR assessments of the coronary arteries.$

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Quantitative Flow Ratio (QFR) Study Looks at Impact on Appropriateness of Revascularization in the PIONEER-IV Trial

July 22, 2021 — Medis Medical Imaging is partnering with CORRIB Core Lab and Sinomed in randomized clinical trial of ...

July 22, 2021

A live, 3-D intra-cardiac echo (ICE) ultrasound image from inside the atrium of the heart taken during the first cryoablation EP procedure performed using the technology at Northwestern Medicine. The new Philips Healthcare VeriSight Pro ICE catheter offers superior 2-D and 3-D live image guidance for a wide range of procedures in structural heart disease and electrophysiology (EP), allowing interventionalists to navigate procedures.

Feature | Ultrasound Intra-cardiac Echo (ICE)

Northwestern Medicine First in U.S. to Use Live 3D Intracardiac Echo for EP Procedure

July 21, 2021 — Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute recently became the first cardiovascular program in ...

July 21, 2021

ICE image showing the inside of the heart. Mayo Clinic recently became the first to use the next-generation Philips 4-D intracardiac echo imaging catheter. ICE is seeing increased use in structural heart procedures.

News | Ultrasound Intra-cardiac Echo (ICE)

Mayo Clinic First to Use Next Generation 4D ICE System to Guide Structural Heart Procedures

July 16, 2021 — Mayo Clinic recently became the first to use a next-generation 4-D intracardiac echo (ICE) imaging ...

July 16, 2021

CentraCare completed the first structural heart procedure in the world guided by a new 4-D hologram technology developed by EchoPixel. The augmented reality technology aims to reduce reduce procedure time, improve accuracy of the procedure, and reduce risk of complications.

Feature | Virtual and Augmented Reality

First 4D Hologram Guided Structural Heart Procedure Performed for LAA Occlusion

June 28, 2021 — CentraCare, one of the largest health systems in Minnesota, successfully completed the first structural ...

June 28, 2021

The Philips Healthcare SyncVision system co-registers iFR hemodynamic blood flow measurements to live angiograms to enable easier assessment of which lesions in a vessel need to be stented and which can be left alone and treated medically.

News | FFR Technologies

First Patient Enrolled in DEFINE GPS Study to Assess PCI Guided by Co-registered iFR Versus Angiography

June 22, 2021 – Philips Healthcare announced the official start of the DEFINE GPS study, with the first patient being ...

June 22, 2021

Some of the top technology news from ACC 2021. Top left, the LAAOS III trial showed benefit when surgeons seal off the LAA during other open heart procedures. Bottom left, the ReCor Paradise renal denervation system helped lower blood pressure in patients who did not respond to medication. Top right, for patients with both heart failure and AFib it makes no differences is therapy is focused on controlling the heart rhythm or heart rate. Bottom right, the FLOWER-MI trial found no benefit to FFR-guided PCI.

Feature | ACC | By Dave Fornell, Editor

Key Cardiology Technology Takeaways at ACC 2021

Here are the top 10 takeaways from the late-breaking studies on cardiovascular technologies presented at the 2021 Americ ...

June 08, 2021

Videos | Congenital Heart

VIDEO: Advances in Congenital Heart Therapy Technologies

Tom Jones, M.D., director, cardiac catheterization laboratories, Seattle Children’s Hospital, explains some of the new ...

May 26, 2021