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 | FFR Technologies

This is an example of the Medis Medical Imaging Quantitative Flow Ratio (QFR) system that offers a fractional flow ...

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Videos | Robotic Systems

This is an example of the Siemens Corindus CorPath Cath lab robotic system being used for a percutaneous coronary ...

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News | FFR Technologies

December 16, 2020 – Acist Medical Systems Inc. announced a formal distribution partnership with Medis Medical Imaging to ...

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News | Robotic Systems

November 3, 2020 – Robocath, a company commercializing cardiovascular cath lab robotic systems, announced creation of ...

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Angiography with a co-registered view of pressure drops according iFR readings in a coronary vessel. The DEFINE PCI study showed patients had improved outcomes and less recurrent chest pain at one year using iFR physiologic measurements combined with landmarks shown on angiographic imaging to better guide therapy. Image by Philips Healthcare. #TCT #TCT2020 #TCTconnect
Feature | FFR Technologies | Dave Fornell, Editor

Fractional flow reserve (FFR) is considered the gold standard measure whether a coronary lesions needs a percutaneous ...

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News | FFR Technologies

October 23, 2020 – Results from the randomized controlled TARGET FFR trial show that while a physiology-guided ...

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News | Cath Lab

October 18, 2020 – Data from the COMBINE (OCT-FFR) study found that the use of FFR combined with OCT imaging can help ...

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News | Intravascular Imaging

October 18, 2020 – New data from the PROSPECT II study shows that near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) intravascular ...

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News | FFR Technologies

October 15, 2020 — The one-year results of the late-breaking DEFINE PCI study showed patients had improved outcomes and ...

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News | Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)

October 1, 2020 — A team of researchers led by the University of Adelaide and University of Stuttgart has used 3-D micro ...

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Videos | Artificial Intelligence

Nick West, M.D., chief medical officer for Abbott, explains the details from a survey of 1,400 patients, physicians and ...

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News | FFR Technologies

August 18, 2020 — Philips Healthcare introduced its new OmniWire, the world’s first solid core fractional flow reserve ...

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News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

June 4, 2020 — Intra-operative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is a versatile diagnostic and monitoring tool used ...

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News | FFR Technologies

May 15, 2020 – A late-breaking study aimed to evaluate whether optical coherence tomography (OCT) can predict fractional ...

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Philips Healthcare's new Fiber Optic RealShape (FORS) technology creates real-time 3-D imaging of anatomy and devices inside the body using light, rather than X-rays. FORS uses light traveling through hair-thin fiber optics inside special FORS enabled catheter and guidewires.
Feature | Angiography | Dave Fornell, Editor

Philips is working on a prototype cath lab angiographic imaging system that might be able to replace the current X-ray ...

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