Advanced Visualization

Software used to manipulate or enhance CT and MRI datasets, including MPR, and 3-D (3D) image reconstruction, perfusion imaging, 3-D printing, and procedural planning and procedural navigation.

Videos | Congenital Heart

VIDEO: Advances in Congenital Heart Therapy Technologies

Tom Jones, M.D., director, cardiac catheterization laboratories, Seattle Children’s Hospital, explains some of the new ...

May 26, 2021

Early detection of high-risk plaque phenotypes holds the promise to prevent myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke by enabling personalized therapeutics. The company Elucid has developed AI to identify these atherosclerotic plaque phenotypes from a CT scan.

News | CT Angiography (CTA)

Study Demonstrates AI Can Estimate RNA Expression From Cardiac CT Scan

March 23, 2021 — Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, have published the first-of-its-kind ...

March 23, 2021

An example of 3-D computer aided design (CAD) software from Materialise being used at Henry Ford Hospital to evaluate left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction from a Sapian TAVR valve virtually implanted in the mitral valve position. Henry Ford uses both 3-D printing and CAD to plan and guide complex structural heart procedures.

Feature | Medical 3-D Printing | By Dave Fornell, Editor

3-D Printing and Computer Aided Design Aids Structural Heart Interventions

With increasing complexity of interventional structural heart disease and congenital heart disease interventions, 3-D ...

January 24, 2021

AI Medic Inc. has obtained official product certification from the NIDS for its own medical video analysis software, AutoSEG

News

AI Fully Automates Cardiac CT Image 3-D Analysis

December 16, 2020 — AI Medic Inc. announced that it has obtained official product certification from the NIDS (National ...

December 16, 2020

Videos | FFR Technologies

VIDEO: Example of the Medis QFR Angiography Image Derived FFR System

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

December 16, 2020

The FDA granted 510(k) clearance for the SentiAR CommandEP system, the first holographic guidance system to be used during an invasive electrophysiology (EP) lab cardiac procedures. The system allows electrophysiologists to visualize 3-D electro-anatomic models in real-time, via a wearable headset and offer a truly handsfree control interface providing superior visualization, allowing them to navigate accurately within the heart during a cardiac ablation procedure.

News | Virtual and Augmented Reality

FDA Clears First Holographic Cardiac Ablation Guidance System

October 1, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted 510(k) clearance for the SentiAR CommandEP system ...

October 01, 2020

News | Medical 3-D Printing

Researchers 3-D Print Lifelike Heart Valve Models

September 2, 2020 — Patient-specific organ models are being used by the University of Minnesota to better prepare for ...

September 02, 2020

An example of the 3-D vascular roadmapping technology on the Ziehm mobile C-arm systems.

News | Mobile C-Arms

Ziehm Imaging Acquires French Imaging Software Developer Therenva

August 18, 2020 — Ziehm Imaging announces the acquisition of Therenva, a French-based developer of planning and imaging ...

August 18, 2020

Sheer stresses on the walls of arteries are believed to cause the formation atherosclerotic plaques. This is an area of research that is expected to see increased use in the next few years. This study was presented at SCCT 2020 as an example of how sheer stresses can help evaluate and predict the patency of coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG). #SCCT2020 #yesCCT

Feature | CT Angiography (CTA) | Dave Fornell, Editor

Key Trends in Cardiac CT at SCCT 2020

The latest technical advances and trends in computed tomography (CT) and the latest clinical study data were discussed ...

August 14, 2020

Videos | Cardiac Imaging

VIDEO: Example of Strain Imaging That Can Derive Hemodynamic Pressure Loops

Advanced visualization company Medis recently purchased Advanced Medical Imaging Development S.r.l. (AMID), which ...

August 12, 2020

Videos | CT Angiography (CTA)

VIDEO: Coronary Plaque Quantification Will Become Major Risk Assessment

Todd Villines, M.D., FACC, FAHA, MSCCT, explains how coronary plaque assessment will become a new risk assessment tool ...

August 11, 2020

TomTec offers innovations in cardiac ultrasound, including AI and auto quanitification of echo images.

News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

TomTec Releases New Echocardiography Technologies With AI and Auto Quantification

August 4, 2020 — Imaging software company TomTec has released its new TomTec-Arena 2020 product, which offers new ...

August 04, 2020

An example of perivascular fat attenuation index (FAI) imaging inside the coronary vascular wall to show areas of inflammation. #SCCT2020

Feature | CT Angiography (CTA) | Dave Fornell, Editor

Low-attenuation Coronary Plaque Burden May Become Next Big Cardiac Risk Assessment

There is a promising recent development in cardiovascular computed tomography angiography (CCTA) to analyze plaque to ...

July 30, 2020

This image was used on the cover of the American Heart Association’s Circulation Research journal is a 3-D rendering of the printed heart pump developed at the University of Minnesota. The discovery could have major implications for studying heart disease. Kupfer, Lin, et al., University of Minnesota.

News | Medical 3-D Printing

Researchers 3-D Print a Beating Heart From Human Cells

July 16, 2020 — In a groundbreaking new study, researchers at the University of Minnesota have 3-D printed a functioning ...

July 16, 2020

Two examples of CT myocardial perfusion (CTP) imaging assessment software. Canon is on the left and GE Healthcare is on the right. Both of these technologies have been around for a few years, but there have been an increasing amount of clinical data from studies showing the accuracy of the technology compared to nuclear imaging, the current stand of care for myocardial perfusion imaging, and cardiac MRI.

Feature | CT Angiography (CTA) | Dave Fornell, Editor

New Technologies Take Cardiac CT to the Next Level

Here is an overview of a few of the biggest technology advances in cardiovascular computed tomography (CT). These are ...

June 08, 2020