Cardiac Imaging

While cardiac ultrasound is the widely used imaging modality for heart assessments, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and nuclear imaging are also used and are often complimentary, each offering specific details about the heart other modalities cannot. For this reason the clinical question being asked often determines the imaging test that will be used.

MRI accident in India leads to 4-month wait for imaging exams

After a 27-year-old from India was killed Jan. 27 after being sucked into an MRI machine, Nair Hospital, where the accident took place, has stopped performing MRI scans until further notice. Patients can now expect a wait time of more than four months to receive an MRI exam.  

January 30, 2018

SyntheticMR AB - Segmentation and quantification of brain tissue, and Industry first myelin volume measurements in SyMRI now FDA cleared

The new regulatory clearance from the American Food and Drug Administration, FDA, concerns the SyMRI NEURO product package. Combined with FDA's clearance from August 2017, this means SyMRI as a whole can now be offered to clinics and hospitals on the US market.

January 30, 2018

New registry seeks to improve cardiovascular ultrasounds

ImageGuideEcho—the first registry devoted solely to measuring quality in cardiovascular ultrasounds— is now open to U.S. physicians.

January 29, 2018

Brain imaging highlighted in 2018 AHA/ASA stroke guidelines

New joint guidelines from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA) may now allow more patients to be eligible for acute ischemic stroke (AIS) procedures and post-treatment medications, including brain-imaging treatment.

January 26, 2018

Biomechanical image mapping may help heal heart attack victims

A new method to capture images of the biomechanical properties of the heart may soon be a technique used to heal heart attack victims.

January 25, 2018

What is the safest gadolinium-based contrast medium?

Mastering the art of balancing risks and benefits, according to Matthew Davenport, MD, from the University of Michigan, is what medicine is all about. When anecdotes about gadolinium-based contrast media agents allegedly poisoning patients became increasingly mainstream, its use in imaging procedures like MRIs has been heavily questioned by the medical community.  

January 23, 2018

Whole body imaging reveals defects in heart, brain after heart attack

According to a recent article by Cardiovascular Business (CVB), a new study published by the Journal of American College of Cardiology demonstrated that whole-body molecular imaging can identify a shared inflammatory response between the cardiovascular and central nervous systems following myocardial infarction (MI).  

January 19, 2018

US sued by army vet after discovering abandoned scalpel in his pelvis

A 61-year-old Army veteran has recently experienced an unsettling, real-life game of "Operation" which has turned into a legal battle with the U.S.  

January 18, 2018

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The newly approved AI models are designed to improve the detection of pulmonary embolisms and strokes in patients who undergo CT scans.

"I see, at least for the next decade, this being a SPECT and PET world, not one or the other," explained Tim Bateman, MD.

The FDA-approved technology developed by HeartFlow can predict a patient's long-term risk of target vessel failure as well as more invasive treatments performed inside a cath lab. 

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