1. ContextVision

... has sealed a series of OEM agreements with various medical companies specializing in areas such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Ultrasound, Digital X-ray, and contrast agents.The company has its R&D ...

2. Review of IG4 Plug-n-Play Navigation System

... individual imaging modalities. Also, IG4’s single shot delivery of contrast agents and subsequent navigation to it is another valuable capability. The IG4 Plug-n-Play Navigation System has a 4-D tracking ...

3. HD11 XE

... detect harmonic agent signatures using the S3-1 and C5-2 transducers. The option provides a uniform power field, allowing more even excitement of contrast agents throughout the sector. ...

4. Siemens' Commitment to Excellence in Cardiology: ACC10
(Company News/Siemens Healthcare)

...  (6) At the time of publication, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared ultrasound contrast agents only for use in LVO. Check current regulations for the country in which you are using this ...

5. Ultrasound Faces Professional Development & Research Problems: ECR10
(Radiology Conferences/ECR 2010)

...  There are further advances with contrast agents, volume scans and image enhancement techniques, Lorenzo Derchi said. At the session he repeated his provocation that the relationship between ultrasound ...

6. St. Mary's Health System Offers 3T MRI
(Communities/MRI)

... function cannot be given contrast agents. Advances in 3T MRI allow certain exams, such as MRA (magnetic resonance angiography) of the renal structures to be performed without a contrast injection. St. ...

7. Ultrasound, Contrast Agents for Cancer Treatment
(Communities/Ultrasound)

An molecular imaging technique combining ultrasound and specially modified contrast agents may allow researchers to noninvasively detect cancer and show its progression. This research was published in ...

8. Toshiba’s Contrast-free MRA Improve Patient Safety
(Company News/Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation)

In response to concern over Toshiba's gadolinium-based contrast agents, Little Company of Mary, wanted to provide the highest quality and safest MRA procedures to its patients.To accomplish this, the facility ...

9. MRI Contrast Agent Reduce Side Effects
(Communities/MRI)

One woman’s ordeal with magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ) contrast side effects may have changed how UK doctors use gadolinium-based contrast agents. The woman, who is now confined to a wheelchair, has ...

10. Agfa Showcases Expanded Portfolio: ECR 2010
(Company News/Agfa HealthCare)

... diagnostic imaging portfolio towards future growth opportunities. Insight Agents GmbH develops, produces and distributes generic contrast agents. Agfa HealthCare expands range with Surgical Procedure ...

11. Contrast Agent Reduces MRI Health Risks
(Communities/MRI)

Scientists at Northwestern University have created a new MRI contrast agents that is about 15 times more sensitive than those currently in use at most hospitals. The increased sensitivity means that patients ...

12. Usage of CT Scans for H1N1 Cases
(Communities/CT)

... recent report "Medical Imaging Markets: Contrast Agents," Kalorama estimates the sale of CT contrast agents in the U.S. at $880 million in 2009. Computed tomography (CT) uses energy waves to image the ...

13. MRI : Gadolinium-based Reactions Rare
(Communities/MRI)

Acute adverse reactions from gadolinium-based contrast agents used during magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ) to help improve the information seen on the images rarely occur, this study published in the ...

14. Ultrasound plus Proteomic Detects Ovarian Cancer
(Communities/Ultrasound)

... ultrasound may play a complementary role to confirming or refuting newly discovered biomarkers' ability to accurately detect early-stage ovarian cancer. "We also found that the contrast agents may significantly ...

15. Non-contrast MRI Offers Test to More Patients
(Communities/MRI)

A San Antonio imaging office is now offering a new kind of MRI, they can do the test without injecting contrasting dyes. Magnetic resonance imaging allows doctors to peer deep inside the body, diagnosing ...

16. Nanodiamond Discovery for MRI Contrast Agent
(Communities/MRI)

... high spatial and time-related resolution, and does not require ionizing radiation. Contrast agents are used in MRI because they alter the relaxivity (contrast efficacy indicator) and improve image resolution. ...

17. Higher Skin Risk with MRI Drugs
(Communities/MRI)

... the products. All of the drugs in the family known as gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs) already carry a strong "black box" warning advising doctors to avoid the drugs in severe kidney disease, ...

18. Contrast Media Market: $8 Billion in 2015
(Modalities/Radiology )

... to patent expiry of leading contrast agents such as Myoview and Visipaque in 2010-2011, consequent entry of generics, declining reimbursement and adverse clinical studies associated with contrast agents. ...

19. Suit Filed Against Bayer's Magnevist Product
(Company News/Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals)

... based contrast agents (GBCAs), which contain a toxic heavy metal and are sometimes used by radiologists during magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ) and magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) procedures. The ...

20. 'Images, my way' Resonates Throughout the Siemens; RSNA
(Company News/Siemens Healthcare)

... States. At the time of publication, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared ultrasound contrast agents only for use in LVO. Check the current regulation for the country in which you are using ...