1. LightLab Imaging

... with the object of help physicians make earlier and more accurate diagnosis of a wide range of diseases including heart disease and cancer. Information about LightLab Imaging Westford LightLab Imaging, ...

2. Explorer

... plaques in the abdominal aorta, which may be a significant indication of heart disease and stroke. ...

3. Ortivus

Ortivus AB Ortivus AB was founded as Medical Invest AB in 1985. Its purpose is to develop, manufacture and market a unique Swedish method for monitoring patients with ischemic heart disease. Ortivus AB ...

4. Imaging Epicardial Adipose Tissue Predicts Heart Diseases
(Cardiology/Cardiology)

... deem most dangerous: non-calcified plaques. Calcium tends to build up in atherosclerotic plaques. Even though the heart's overall coronary calcium burden is a good predictor of heart disease, calcium in ...

5. GE Announces New Compatibility for FFR Evaluation
(Company News/GE Healthcare)

... Pressure Guide Wire for evaluation of Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR). Coronary heart disease caused 425,425 deaths in 2006 and is the single leading cause of death in America today1. It is caused by atherosclerosis, ...

6. CT of Epicardial Fat Provides Better Prognosis
(Communities/CT)

... the heart's overall coronary calcium burden is a good predictor of heart disease, calcium in an individual plaque doesn't necessarily mean imminent trouble, Raggi says. Researchers have been learning that ...

7. Siemens' Comprehensive Solutions for Echocardiography: ACC.10
(Company News/Siemens Healthcare)

... cause of our patients’ heart failures or the severity of their heart disease, so they can be treated more quickly," Calhoun said. The ACUSON SC2000 system delivers superior volume imaging that can be ...

8. GE Demonstrates MARS VSL at ACC.10
(Company News/GE Healthcare)

... as obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) impacts up to 50 percent of all heart disease patients.(1 )When sleep disorders are diagnosed and treated early, it has been shown to improve cardiac conditions. Left undiagnosed, ...

9. Frost & Sullivan Lauds Positron for Attrius
(Company News/Positron Corporation)

... heart disease specific software including the ability to monitor therapy, coronary artery overlay display, open architecture for new protocol development and customization and motion correction software. ...

10. Plaque on CT, Strong Predictor of CAD
(Communities/CT)

... a chronic, progressive form of heart disease that results from a buildup of plaque in the arteries found on the surface of the heart,. The study is being presented Sunday, March 14 at the 59th annual ...

11. Angiography Finds Blockage In Obstructed Heart Arteries
(Cardiology/Cardiology)

Doctors may be sending patients too quickly for elective angiography to detect heart disease, exposing them to radiation and driving up U.S. healthcare costs, a study suggests. An analysis of records of ...

12. PC VIPR, New Technique Supplies 4-D Information
(Modalities/Radiology )

... useful for adults and children with congenital heart disease, the most common birth defect. “This is a new paradigm in cardiac imaging,” says Francois. “It will allow physicians to see things they haven’t ...

13. Intermountain Healthcare - Toshiba Announce faCTor64 Substudy
(Company News/Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation)

... with many diabetics experiencing their first “symptom” as a heart attack or sudden death. Understanding that diabetics are at high risk for Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) and that many with the disease are ...

14. Ownership/leasing PET Scanners on the Rise
(Communities/PET)

... It is often used to diagnose certain types of cancer and heart disease. "One of the well-known factors contributing to rising imaging costs is self-referral among non-radiologist physicians which has ...

15. ECR10: Imaging’s Role in Cardiomyopathies Diagnosis
(Radiology Conferences/ECR 2010)

... valuable in differentiating it from other conditions, such as heart attack and congenital heart disease. Depending on the disease type, patients may present with a variety of symptoms, including breathlessness, ...

16. Wrist angiography : Procedure To Treat Heart Disease
(Cardiology/Cardiology)

A new procedure called wrist angiography is introduced by which access to the patient's heart is gained through the femoral artery in his groin, through his wrist, using the radial artery.  Wrist ...

17. RCMC Adds New CT Equipment
(Communities/CT)

... heart disease and detect internal injuries and bleeding. CT exam volume at RCMC has more than doubled in the last four years. In 2009, over 5,100 exams were completed at the medical center. The CT scanner ...

18. Childhood Cancer Radiation Therapy Affects Heart
(Modalities/Radiology )

... patients who had received radiation to the heart or had been given the chemotherapy drug anthracycline were many times more likely to die of heart disease compared to the general population, Dr. Florent ...

19. MUSC, First To Test CT Detects CAD
(Communities/CT)

... has potential to evolve into a standalone method for imaging all aspects of coronary heart disease. Radiologists and cardiologists from MUSC, led by Joseph Schoepf, MD, professor of radiology and medicine ...

20. Plaque Composition Differences Using Multidetector CTA
(Cardiology/Cardiology)

... all age groups, according to authors Dr Khurram Nasir (Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease, Baltimore, MD) and colleagues. Furthermore, despite the similar overall noncalcified ...