September 13, 2011 — Ziehm Imaging is showcasing the next generation of its mobile C-arm, Ziehm Vision RFD, at the 2011 Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) congress. The event is Europe's largest annual session on interventional radiology. More than 6,500 doctors are expected to attend the event in Munich from Sept. 10-14.

September 12, 2011 – For the eighth consecutive year, the vacancy rate for radiographers has dropped and now stands at 2 percent, according to data presented in the ASRT Radiologic Sciences Workplace Survey 2011.

September 12, 2011 — TeraRecon Inc. invited interventional specialists to “Intervene with iNtuition,” the company’s advanced volumetric visualization Web solution, during a session at CIRSE 2011, the annual meeting of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe. The event will be held at the ICM Congress Center in Munich, Germany, from Sept. 10-14

September 9, 2011 — GE Healthcare announced it has received commitments from more than 100 customers globally for its Alcyone technology. The Alcyone is a nuclear cardiology platform designed to help facilitate workflow efficiency and dose management while maintaining image quality. It combines cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) detectors, focused pinhole collimation, stationary data acquisition and 3-D reconstruction.

September 8, 2011 – Concentric Medical announced completion of enrollment of the TREVO Study. The TREVO Study (Thrombectomy REvascularization of large Vessel Occlusions in acute ischemic stroke) is the first evaluation of Stentriever technology in a European, multicenter, prospective clinical trial. The TREVO Study was designed to assess the ability of the Trevo System to remove the blood clots that cause strokes and to restore blood flow to the brain.

September 8, 2011 – SynCardia Systems, manufacturer of the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart, announced that Texas Children's Hospital in Houston has discharged its first pediatric Total Artificial Heart patient to wait for a matching donor heart at home. On Aug. 31, 18-year-old Jordan Merecka left the hospital using the Freedom portable driver, a wearable power supply for his Total Artificial Heart.

September 8, 2011 – A randomized multicenter, open-label study evaluating the efficacy and safety of prolonged antiplatelet therapy in patients with coronary disease has found that 24 months' duration of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) is no better than six months of DAPT in preventing adverse cardiac events. The study results were discussed during the recent European Society of Cardiology (ESC) meeting in Paris, France.

September 6, 2011 — Philips has announced the availability of Xcelera R3.2, the latest release of its multi-modality cardiology image management, analysis and reporting system. It delivers patient information across the care continuum via enhanced connectivity with other hospital information systems and the patient’s electronic medical record.