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.

Videos | Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO)

VIDEO: Selecting Workhorse CTO Wires

Interview with Kevin Rogers, M.D., director of vascular medicine at the University of Colorado Hospital. He explains ...

August 23, 2019

In June 2019, Medis received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its QAngio XA 3D technology (QFR). The FFR-angio technology can show the FFR readings in a 3-D image and overlaid on a fluoro image.

Feature | FFR Technologies | Dave Fornell and Greg Freiherr

Image-based FFR May Replace Pressure Wires and Adenosine

New technologies have been developed that may replace the traditional pressure wires and adenosine to assess the fractio ...

August 05, 2019

There are always a lot of guidewires used in CTO cases, but they all look the same so it can be confusing as to which is which as they are exchanged out and are all set on the same table. John Messenger, M.D., at the University of Colorado, likes to write the name of each wire on a towl and put the towel on top to keep them straight for himself and staff in the room.

Feature | Guidewires | Dave Fornell, Editor

Recent Advances in Interventional Guidewire Technology

Guidewire engineering has become more advanced over the past decade as interventional cardiologists have advanced their ...

August 02, 2019

Philips Healthcare, Volcano IVUS showing an implanted stent. IVUS might offer an alternative to contrast angiography in patients with acute kidney disease (AKD).

News | Cath Lab

Using IVUS Guided Stent Implantation to Reduce Contrast in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease

June 14, 2019 – A late-breaking study examined the effects of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) guided drug-eluting stent ...

June 14, 2019

Videos | Heart Valve Technology

VIDEO: Evaluation Tool for Neo-LVOT in Transcatheter Mitral Valve Procedures

A demonstration of how to calculate the neo-left ventricular outflow tract (neo-LVOT) on CT imaging for a transcatheter ...

May 20, 2019

As interventional procedures become more complex, one of the biggest issues is the ability of operators to see the devices they are using in the soft tissue anatomy that is mostly invisible under 2-D fluoroscopy. Several companies have developed new navigation aids, including multimodality fusion imaging software from Philips, GE and Siemens. This image shows a new system being developed by Centerline Biomedical. There is a more detailed image below.

Feature | Cath Lab Navigation Aids | Vikash Goel

Innovations Driving the Cath Lab Technology of Tomorrow

When Andreas Grüntzig, father of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, approached his cardiac surgeon ...

May 02, 2019

Videos | Cath Lab Navigation Aids

VIDEO: Developing New Cath Lab Technologies With Real-time Collaboration Between Industry, Doctors

Alex Haak, Ph.D., clinical scientist at Philips Health Systems North America, is based at the University of Colorado ...

May 01, 2019

Videos | Structural Heart

VIDEO: The Importance of the Neo-LVOT in Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement

Dee Dee Wang, M.D., director of structural heart imaging, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Mich., explains how patient ...

April 25, 2019

Figure 1: A computed tomography angiography (CTA) study performed for transcatheter aortic valve replacement planning. Interventional imagers created and interpret these images as part of the heart team.

Feature | Structural Heart | Nadeen N. Faza, M.D., Dee Dee Wang, M.D., Joao Cavalcante, M.D., Andrew D. Choi, M.D., Jeffrey B. Geske, M.D., and Stephen H. Little, M.D.

Interventional Imagers: The Conductors of the Heart Team Orchestra

Recent months have signaled a new and exciting era in the dynamic world of structural heart disease (SHD). The COAPT ...

April 24, 2019

All major vendors offering advanced visualization software now offer structural heart planning. This is an example of GE Healthcare's Valve Assist software being used to determine the best location of a transseptal puncture to deliver a left atrial appendage (LAA) occluder.

Feature | Structural Heart | Jeff Zagoudis

The Essentials of Structural Heart Imaging

Structural heart interventions represent one of the fastest growing segments of cardiology, as the number of devices to ...

March 28, 2019

$Abbott's Resting Full-cycle Ratio (RFR) intravascular diagnostic test is a newer type of fractional flow reserve (FFR) physiologic assessment. RFR is used to help identify significant narrowings of coronary arteries to determine the need for a stent or if a patient can be treated medically. Abbott FFR.$

Technology | FFR Technologies

FDA Clears Abbott's New FFR Coronary Lesion Assessment Technology

March 5, 2019 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared Abbott's Resting Full-cycle Ratio (RFR) ...

March 06, 2019

Philips and Microsoft have partnered to develop an augmented reality system to help imporve workflow and procedural navigation in the cath lab. Physicians wearing visors can view and interact with true 3-D holograms above the patient on the table and manipulate the image with voice and hand motion commands to avoid breaking the sterile field. Virtual reality in the cath lab, interventional lab, hybrid OR, or cardiovascular lab.

News | Advanced Visualization

Philips and Microsoft Showcase Augmented Reality for Image-Guided Minimally Invasive Therapies

February 25, 2019 — Philips will unveil a new mixed reality concept developed together with Microsoft that the company ...

February 25, 2019

Videos | Angiography

VIDEO: Brain Arterial Venous Malformation Imaged on Angiography

This is an example of an arterial venous malformation (AVM) in the brain imaged on a Canon Alphenix Alpha angiography ...

February 08, 2019

An example of multimodality image fusion with live angiography to enhance soft-tissue visualization during complex procedures. This example is from Siemen's new TrueFusion software released in 2018. Advances in angiography imaging.

Feature | Angiography | Dave Fornell, Editor

7 Trends in Interventional Lab Angiography Systems

There are a few recent trends in X-ray angiography imaging systems that hospitals should be aware of if they are looking ...

January 28, 2019

This is 3-D blood flow view of blood flow through the chambers of a fetal heart using the GE Healthcare fetalHQ analysis software. #RSNA18 #RSNA #RSNA2018

Feature | RSNA | Dave Fornell, Editor

New Cardiac Imaging Technologies Unveiled at RSNA 2018

Many of the latest advances in cardiovascular imaging technologies are unveiled each year at the Radiological Society of ...

January 17, 2019