October 30. 2007 - Ovalum Ltd., a privately held Israeli medical device company, has received FDA marketing clearance for the CiTop Guidewire system for angiographic procedures in the peripheral vasculature, a device intended to assist in the treatment of chronic complete arterial blockage (CTO).

October 30, 2007 – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded cardiac researchers at the University of Pennsylvania a $2.1 million grant to pioneer studies in cardiovascular disease management and participate in a novel collaboration network to develop and implement research in this critically important field.

October 30, 2007- SonoSite Inc. today introduced the S-Cath visualization tool, a specialized ultrasound device designed to meet the specific point-of-care imaging and procedural guidance needs of interventional radiologists and cardiologists.

October 23, 2007 – Boston Scientific Corp. announced five-year and final follow-up data from its TAXUS IV clinical trial demonstrated long-term safety, with no new cases of stent thrombosis between years four and five.

October 29, 2007 - Boston Scientific Corp. announced positive three-year results from its CABERNET and BEACH carotid artery stenting clinical trials, which evaluated the effectiveness of stenting with embolic protection for patients at high risk for carotid endarterectomy (CEA), the surgical treatment for carotid artery disease.

October 26, 2007 - Toshiba America Medical Systems announced the introduction of its Infinix VF-i/SP X-ray system, a universal cardiovascular system designed to accommodate diagnostic and interventional procedures.

October 26, 2007 - Toshiba America Medical Systems announced the introduction of its Infinix VF-i/SP X-ray system, a universal cardiovascular system designed to accommodate diagnostic and interventional procedures.

Terumo Interventional Systems provides the TR Band, a radial artery compression device designed to safely and comfortably stop bleeding after transradial procedures, designed to allow the clinician to easily check for clotting and to promote greater patient comfort.

Double Black Imaging's P-Series of LCDs consist of a 2MP monochrome and color, a 3MP monochrome and color and a 5 MP monochrome and color LCD for mammography. The line will reportedly include higher brightness levels on each LCD, digital uniformity control, 12-Bit processing, a retractable front sensor for true DICOM calibration, a backlight sensor for luminance control and bonded protective panels. DBI will be bundling these LCDs with a high-speed graphic controller (PCI-X or PCI-e) as well as including X-CAL calibration software.

October 25, 2007 – Siemens highlighted at TCT 2007 the syngo DynaCT Cardiac solution, a planning tool that enables cross-sectional images to be acquired in the EP lab to guide intervention with a CT image taken on the same day as the procedure.

Previously, planning of procedures like atrial fibrillation ablations was based on CT or MR images acquired before the examination. Morphologic information of these preprocedural images was limited by the time lag to the actual procedure as the preprocedural approach does not account for dynamic changes in the anatomical structures.

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