DAIC Editor Dave Fornell takes a video tour of some of the most innovative new interventional cardiology technologies he found at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2016 meeting...
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
Optical coherence tomography is a type of intravascular imaging that uses light waves to provide a cross-section view of the retina.
April 11, 2018 — Abbott today announced the initiation of a...
September 29, 2017 — Avinger Inc. recently announced Conformité Européenne (CE) Marking approval for treating in-...
February 3, 2017 — Avinger Inc. recently announced positive two-year...
January 11, 2017 — Avinger Inc. recently announced the U.S. launch of an enhanced version of the company’s Lightbox...
December 23, 2016 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted a new 510(k) clearance for Avinger’s...
DAIC Editor Dave Fornell takes a video tour of some of the most innovative new interventional cardiology...
November 7, 2016 – Results from TRANSFORM-OCT, a prospective, randomized trial using optical coherence tomography (...
October 31, 2016 — ...
October 20, 2016 — Avinger Inc. recently announced that the company has received expanded indications from the U.S....
September 27, 2016 — Avinger Inc. recently announced the company has received an FSS Contract Award from the U.S....
August 22, 2016 — Avinger Inc. recently announced the closing of its previously announced public offering of 9,857,...

A comparison of how the Abbott Absorb BVS appears with intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) on the left, and optical coherence tomography (OCT) of the right. The stent is difficult to visualize and sizing is critical, so both modalities can help in bioresorbable stent measurements and to confirm stent apposition. Left image from the Volcano IVUS system and the right image from St. Jude Medical's OCT system.
Some have labeled bioresorbable scaffolds (BRS), also known as bioresorbable stents, as the fourth evolution of...
While angiographic X-ray fluoroscopy systems are the workhorse for transcatheter cardiovascular interventional...
May 16, 2016 — In a new study using...

The dual catheter OCT-IVUS imaging device can be inserted into an artery to simultaneously capture an infrared image of the arterial wall (OCT, at left) and an ultrasound image (IVUS, right) that doctors use to determine the potential that a plaque is susceptible to rupture that could cause a heart attack or stroke.
May 12, 2016 — Collaboration between two National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)-funded...