Cardiac Imaging

The cardiac imaging channel includes the modalities of computed tomography (CT), cardiac ultrasound (echocardiography), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear imaging (PET and SPECT), and angiography. 

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April 3, 2012 — New guidelines for CT-guided biopsies of lung nodules significantly reduce radiation exposure, allowing ...

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April 3, 2012 — Incidences of renal complications, specifically acute renal failure (ARF) and new hemodialysis (HD) ...

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April 2, 2012 — It seems a picture is worth more than a thousand words for people who see evidence of coronary artery ...

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Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology Editor Dave Fornell discusses trends and shares his choices of the most ...

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The GE Healthcare ValveAssist software enables trans-aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedural planning and guidance with integration on live fluoro imaging.
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The American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2012 Scientific Session, held March 24-27 in Chicago, was the first major ...

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March 29, 2012 — Siemens Healthcare recently expanded its solutions portfolio by offering the RaySafe i2 personal ...

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This is a cardiac CT scan that has been reconstructed as a 3D image of the heart. The ACRIN-PA study looked at use of cardiac CT to evaluate chest pain patients in the emergency room.
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March 28, 2012 - Two large clinical trials were presented in the late-breaking clinical trials session at the American ...

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March 26, 2012 – GE Healthcare unveiled two recently U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared angiography systems ...

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March 24, 2012 Coronary angiography is unable to accurately predict the severity of vessel narrowing, suggesting fract ...

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March 26, 2012 - New research shows that the addition of two magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences to a common MR ...

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March 26, 2012 — GE Healthcare introduced the 510(k)-pending Discovery CT750 HD FREEdom Edition at the opening of ...

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March 23, 2012 — Improving the ability to diagnose cardiac disease with advanced ultrasound imaging, Toshiba America ...

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March 22, 2012 – Addressing concerns over radiation from cardiac imaging and procedures, the American College of ...

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In the past decade, there has been a major push toward minimally invasive cardiac procedures. In the cath lab ...

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Computer-aided detection (CAD) software constitutes a set of algorithms which, using a pattern-recognition technique ...

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