Materialise, Mimics Innovation Suite, U.S. expansion, 3-D printing

Citing increased use of its Materialise Mimics Innovation Suite in hospitals and other clinical settings, Materialise NV announced investment in additional medical production capacity for its U.S. operations.

International Congress of Update in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery

The Scientific Program of 12th UCCVS Congress will be enriched by the Valve Summit, International Forum of Arrhythmias (IFA), Interventional Cardiology Mediterraean (IC-MED) Meeting, Pulmonary Hypertension Summit, Heart FailureSummit, Hypertension Summit, Adult Congenital Heart Summit. Moreover , CoreCurriculum in Cardiology, Advanced Echocardiography Course, ECMO Course, Aortic and Mitral Hands on Wet Lab Courses and Anastomotic Simulation Skills Lab will create the other interactive parts of the scientific program.

Emory Practical Intervention Course (EPIC)

The Emory Practical Intervention Course (EPIC) has been an annual event since 1981 providing training for thousands of interventional cardiologists from the United States and abroad. Last year, EPIC became the Emory Practical Intervention Course-Southeast Consortium (EPIC SEC) with twelve academic centers participating. This year we are honored to announce that fifteen academic medical centers will actively contribute to this clinical, educational and research consortium and to EPIC SEC.

Heart Test Laboratories Inc. (HTL) announced the commencement of a clinical study, initiated by Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, examining the MyoVista heart screening device.

December 14, 2015 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced CE Mark approval for magnetic resonance (MR) conditional labeling for the company’s currently approved Quadra Assura Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Defibrillator (CRT-D). The Quadra Assura CRT-D and Quadra Assura MP CRT-D with MultiPoint Pacing are now approved for use with MRI scanning systems with strength up to 1.5 Tesla.

December 14, 2015 — Vital Images Inc. announced a partnership with Stratasys Ltd., a 3-D printing and additive manufacturing company, to develop an industry first print-on-demand service using Vital’s Vitrea advanced visualization software and Stratasys’ 3-D printing services. 

The partnership was demonstrated with printed 3-D models featuring both company’s technology at both Stratasys’ and Vital’s booths at the 2015 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting.

December 14, 2015 — As the field of interventional medicine grows, so do the challenges for clinicians to plan, guide and assess increasingly more complex minimally invasive procedures. At RSNA 2015, GE Healthcare showcasing its Assist brand, a collection of new interventional imaging software packages designed for specific clinical subspecialists and complex endovascular procedures to help clinicians perform procedures with greater accuracy, dose efficiency and confidence.

December 14, 2015 — The industry’s first seamless integration of interventional radiology (IR) and CT technology into one solution, Toshiba America Medical Systems’ Infinix 4DCT allows clinicians to plan, treat and verify in a single clinical setting. Toshiba showcased the Infinix 4DCT’s merging of the Infinix Elite angiography system and Aquilion One Vision edition CT system at the 2015 annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

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