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. 

Transesophageal echo (TEE) being used to guide the deployment of a MitraClip device during a structural heart procedure at the University of Colorado Hospital. The center has performed more than 200 MitraClip mitral valve repairs over the past decade. Photo by Dave Fornell
Feature | Structural Heart
Advice For Hospitals Starting a Structural Heart Program

The resounding success of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has led the creation of hundreds of structural ...

Home April 22, 2021
Home
Transesophageal echo (TEE) being used to guide the deployment of a MitraClip device during a transcatheter structural heart procedure in the hybrid lab at the University of Colorado Hospital. The center has performed more than 200 MitraClip mitral valve repairs over the past decade. Photo by Dave Fornell
Blog | Structural Heart
Creating a Structural Heart Program is an Investment in the Future of the Hospital

As a medical technology journalist, a little more than a decade ago I found myself sitting in those late afternoon ...

Home April 21, 2021
Home
A reconstructed vessel segment from a cone-beam CT created table side in the cath lab with the Philips Azurion SmartCT software.
News | Angiography
Philips SmartCT Enables 3D Image Acquisition in the Cath Lab

April 7, 2021 — Philips Healthcare announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its Philips ...

Home April 07, 2021
Home
Videos | Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS)
VIDEO: Examples of Lung B-lines and Cardiac Imaging on a Vscan Point of Care Ultrasound

Here are two quick clinical examples of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) lung imaging and cardiac imaging using a GE ...

Home April 01, 2021
Home
Polar maps demonstrating MBF, uptake, and retention along with their relationship to traditional relative MPI. 
News | Nuclear Imaging
ASNC and SNMMI Issue Guide for Using PET Myocardial Blood Flow to Improve Coronary Artery Disease Diagnosis

April 1, 2021 – The ability to measure myocardial blood flow (MBF) as part of myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) is one ...

Home April 01, 2021
Home
Sponsored Content | Case Study | Cardiovascular Information Systems (CVIS)
Single-Database Cardiology Platform Drives Efficient Workflow and Improves Data Access

Washington Health System (WHS) provides healthcare services at more than 40 offsite locations across three counties in ...

Home April 01, 2021
Home
Researchers found a relationship between stress-associated neurobiological activity on 18F-FDG PET-CT imaging and risk for subsequent Takotsubo syndrome impacting the heart.
News
PET-CT Shows Stressed Brain Linked to Broken Heart

March 31, 2021 — Heightened activity in the brain, caused by stressful events, is linked to the risk of developing a ...

Home March 31, 2021
Home
cImage Inc. celebrates its cloud partnership with Digirad Health after a year of successful deployment of PICOM365 for mobile imaging. Digirad’s fleet of mobile SPECT, echocardiology, vascular and general ultrasound units combined with PICOM365’s cloud image management workflow leverage each company’s strengths to create an exemplary reading and reporting environment.
News | Cardiac Imaging
ScImage Cloud Partnership With Digirad Aids Flow of Nuclear and Echo Imaging

March 31, 2021 — ScImage Inc. celebrates its cloud partnership with Digirad Health after a year of successful deployment ...

Home March 31, 2021
Home
Driven by pandemic realities and clinical demand for portable and intelligent point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), GE Healthcare unveiled Venue Fit, a streamlined and compact POCUS system, alongside an industry-first artificial intelligence (AI) offering for cardiac imaging on the Venue and Venue Go. The Venue Fit is the smallest system in GE Healthcare’s Venue Family, featuring an easy-to-clean touchscreen, intuitive scanning tools, and a small footprint designed to fit in tight spaces often found in point-of
News | Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS)
GE Healthcare Expands Ultrasound Family with New Point of Care System and AI Offering

March 31, 2021 — Driven by pandemic realities and clinical demand for portable and intelligent point-of-care ultrasound ...

Home March 31, 2021
Home
Virtual tour views of a University of Colorado cath lab during a CTO procedure (top left), the new robotic EP lab at Banner Health (top right), a bi-plane EP/cath combo lab at Baylor Heart Hospital Dallas (bottom left, and an ECMO procedure at Tufts Medical Center cath lab. Photos by Dave Fornell
Feature
Virtual Tours of Cath and EP Labs

There is a lot of interest in how other hospitals organize and equip their cardiac cath labs and electrophysiology (EP) ...

Home March 25, 2021
Home
Top left, electromechanical wave imaging (EWI) isochrone renderings showing the activation points of the myocardium based on echocardiography axial strain measurements. Bottom right, EWI images overlaid on patient's CT scan of the heart.
News | EP Lab
New Ultrasound Technique Helps Pinpoint Source of Arrhythmias

March 23, 2021 — Researchers at Columbia University are using cardiac ultrasound to improve the critical need to ...

Home March 23, 2021
Home
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 ...

Home March 23, 2021
Home
Vscan Air, a pocket-sized ultrasound from GE Healthcare, enters the market as one of the smallest and lightweight handheld devices without compromising crystal clear image quality and secure data sharing. The vScan is a point of care ultrasound (POCUS).
News | Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS)
GE Healthcare Unveils Vscan Air Wireless Handheld Ultrasound

March 18, 2021 — GE Healthcare this week unveiled Vscan Air, a cutting-edge, wireless pocket-sized ultrasound that ...

Home March 18, 2021
Home
MRI scan of a damaged heart. Blue means reduced blood flow, orange is good blood flow. In this figure the inferior part of the heart shows dark blue, so the myocardial blood flow is very reduced. The angiogram shows the coronary artery which supplies the blood to this part of the heart is occluded. The three colored MRI images show different slices of the heart — the basal mid and apical slices. Image courtesy of European Heart Journal #COVID #COVID19
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Heart Damage Found in More Than Half of COVID-19 Patients Discharged From Hospitals

March 17, 2021 — Around 50% of patients who have been hospitalized with severe COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) and have damage to ...

Home March 17, 2021
Home
Cloud AI software-as-a-service (SaaS) can help streamline workflows and increase throughput, enabling echocardiographers to better measure global longitudinal strain (GLS) more routinely without impacting productivity. This is an example of the Ultromics EchoGo Core artificial intelligence algorithm with fully automates GLS.
Feature | Artificial Intelligence
Global Longitudinal Strain Echo and AI Can Aid Fight Against Heart Failure

Heart failure (HF) is a prevalent yet silent epidemic, affecting 26 million people and costing global healthcare systems ...

Home March 16, 2021
Home
© Copyright Wainscot Media. All Rights Reserved.
Subscribe Now