June 8, 2010 - The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), an international professional society dedicated to research, education and clinical excellence in cardiovascular computed tomography (CT), named the finalists of the fourth annual Young Investigator Award.

June 8, 2010 โ€“ A 45 mm diameter stent graft to treat thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA) has been cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). W. L. Gore & Associates said its new, larger version of the Gore Tag Thoracic Endoprosthesis is for the treatment of aneurysms of the descending thoracic aorta.

June 8, 2010 โ€“ New study findings prove continuing warfarin therapy during pacemaker or defibrillator implantation in patients with moderate to high thromboembolic risk is safe and cost-effective.

June 8, 2010 โ€“ A recent study found a potential new molecular imaging agent combined with post-scan image processing technology could result in crisper pictures of the heart. The results were revealed yesterday at the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) annual meeting in Salt Lake City.

June 7, 2010 โ€“ St. Jude Medical and two hospitals agreed to pay $3.7 million to resolve allegations it paid illegal kickbacks to two hospitals to secure heart-device business, the Justice Department (DOJ) said. The government alleges the kickbacks caused false claims to be submitted to federal health care programs in violation of the False Claims Act.

June 7, 2010 โ€“ Low-dose, flat-panel computed tomography (CT) iterative reconstruction was added to the BrightView XCT single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)/CT system. The Full Iterative Technology (FIT) feature improves localization through better uniformity and less noise, leading to improvements in soft tissue image quality.

June 7, 2010 โ€“ A program proactively monitors molecular imaging system performance online and in real-time to help predict scanner breakdowns. The system can also detect the majority of potential computed tomography (CT) tube failures.

June 4, 2010 โ€“ One-year mortality rates were very low for 1,038 high-risk patients, many of whom were too sick to undergo traditional open-heart surgery, who received the Sapien transcatheter heart valve. Results of the SOURCE Registry were presented last week at EuroPCR in Paris.

June 4, 2010 โ€“ Speech understanding technology that accepts data and translates additional physician dictation in real time into a structured document was introduced yesterday at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) in Minneapolis.

June 4, 2010 โ€“ The first national contract signed for a magnetic resonance imaging angiography (MRA) contrast agent was been signed, making it available to more than 27,000 medical facilities.

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