Endomag, a medical technology company based in Cambridge, UK and Austin, Texas, has developed the Magseed, a magnetic injectable marker that can be implanted by a radiologist during an imaging procedure, such as during ultrasound or X-ray mammographic procedures. The marker can then assist surgeons to find features of interest in soft tissues. Orig (Read more...)
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Fujifilm Reveals ASPIRE Bellus II Multi-Modality Mammography Diagnostic Workstation
This weekend Fujifilm will be showing off its brand new ASPIRE Bellus II mammography diagnostic workstation at the National Consortium of Breast Centers, having received FDA clearance for it last September. The ASPIRE Bellus II workstation provides a multimodality view that can be used to analyze 2D and tomosynthesis scans against ea (Read more...)
OrbusNeich Gets U.S. Clearance for Smallest Coronary Balloon
OrbusNeich won FDA clearance for the OrbusNeich 1.0mm Sapphire II PRO coronary balloon, the only coronary balloon of such small size available in the U.S. It’s designed for dealing with the tightest and most difficult to treat lesions, capable of moving through tortuous vasculature and crossing through compacted plaques. “As p (Read more...)
Philips Ingenia Elition 3T MRI Scanner Unveiled
Philips has unveiled a new 3 Tesla MRI scanner, the Ingenia Elition. The device was designed to help speed up all sorts of exams without sacrificing image quality, in certain cases doing so in half the time of competing devices. The system features the firm’s dStream digital broadband tech, as well as Compressed SENSE and 3D […]
Endomag Magseed Wins FDA Clearance to Localize Tumors in Any Soft Tissue
Endomag, a company with offices in Cambridge, UK and Austin, Texas, won the first FDA clearance for a wire-free localisation system that uses an implant that can be placed in any soft tissue and remain there indefinitely. The Magseed device is used to mark tumor tissue identified during imaging exams, be it ultrasound or X-ray. […]
Nano-CT Scanner and Staining Technique Allow for High-Resolution 3D Histology
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich have developed a nano-CT scanning technique. When coupled with a new staining technique, their nano-CT scanner can take extremely high-resolution scans of intact tissue samples, such as tumors. The new method allows clinicians to examine soft tissue samples without the need for sectioning or toxic s (Read more...)
HydroPICC Anti-thrombogenic Central Line Catheter Cleared by FDA
Access Vascular, a company based in Bedford, MA that makes a novel material for preventing the clogging up of catheters, won FDA clearance for its HydroPICC catheter. The company’s “bulk-hydrophilic” material is rich in water and carries a neutral surface charge, which helps to prevent proteins and other biomaterials from sticking (Read more...)
Arterys FDA Clearance for Liver AI and Lung AI Lesion Spotting Software
Arterys, a San Francisco, California firm, won FDA clearance for its Arterys Oncology AI suite. The cleared software aids in finding lesions within CT images of the lungs (Lung AI) and in both CT and MRI when assessing the liver (Liver AI). It uses artificial intelligence methods to segment lesions and nodules, and in evaluations […]
FDA Clears Canon Medical’s Vantage Galan 3T XGO Edition MRI for Better Brain Imaging
Canon Medical Systems, previously known as Toshiba, won FDA clearance for its Vantage Galan 3T XGO Edition MRI scanner. The device sports the company’s Saturn X Gradient system that purportedly provides a 30% better signal-to-noise ratio when performing brain diffusion weighted imaging (DWI). The company touts that fewer breath hold (Read more...)
New and Improved Planmed Verity CBCT Scanner Unveiled
Planmed, based in Helsinki, Finland, is releasing an upgraded new version of its popular Planmed Verity CBCT (Cone Beam Computed Tomography) extremity scanner. The system is intended for ortho, as well as head and neck imaging, and even advanced dental applications. It is CE marked in Europe and is now available wherever the mark applies. [… (Read more...)
Respicardia’s remedē, a Pacemaker for Lungs, Now Treating First Sleep Apnea Patient
Last year the FDA granted Respicardia, a Minnetonka, Minnesota firm, approval to introduce its remedē System as a treatment option for severe central sleep apnea. Now the company is proudly reporting that the first patient to receive the newly commercialized phrenic nerve stimulating implant is already receiving treatment following surger (Read more...)
GE’s New Versana Essential Budget Friendly Ultrasound
GE Healthcare is unveiling a new budget conscious ultrasound system, the Versana Essential. GE touts it as having excellent image quality for the price and sees it being used by OB-GYNs, family and general practice physicians, and by clinicians in a number of other specialties. Using it you can view the thyroid vasculature, kidney vessels, [&hellip (Read more...)
HoloLens Augmented Reality Headset Helps Surgeons to Reconnect Blood Vessels
After a traumatic injury, surgeons may need to repair damage using flaps of tissue taken from elsewhere in the body. One of the challenges with this approach is that the blood vessels of the “new” tissue must be connected with those at the injury site. At the moment, surgeons use a handheld ultrasound scanner that […]
Hologic’s New Fluoroscan InSight FD Mini C-Arm for Extremity Scans
Hologic just launched its new Fluoroscan InSight FD Mini C-Arm, an extremities imaging system intended for specialists such as orthopedists and podiatrists. The user can select between high resolution or low dosage modes, varying between patients as needed. The low-dose mode can produce images with up to half the radiation compared the machine (Read more...)
Advisor HD Grid Mapping Catheter, Sensor Enabled, Cleared in Europe to Map Cardiac Arrhythmias
Abbott has announced that its Advisor HD Grid Mapping Catheter, Sensor Enabled, landed CE Mark approval in Europe. The device is used to track down sources of difficult to diagnose cardiac arrhythmias in order to locate targets for therapeutic ablation procedures. It relies on both electrical impedance and magnetic sensing to map out the heart (Read more...)
X-Ray Pill for Colon Cancer Screening: C-Scan System Cleared in Europe
Traditional colonoscopies that are used to screen patients for presence of colon cancer can be physically unpleasant, much too invasive, and require diets and laxatives that leave patients feeling empty and exhausted. A new option, in the form of a pill that emits X-rays to image the colon, has just been cleared by European regulators […]
Hologic Brevera Biopsy System Slices and Images Breast Tissue, Now Cleared in Europe
Breast biopsies, which can conclusively diagnose the presence of a tumor, suffer from a number of procedural limitations. One big issue is that during the excision of every sample, the physician can’t easily confirm whether the taken tissue really does come from the targeted lesion. Hologic‘s Brevera biopsy system has now been appr (Read more...)
GE’s Augmented Reality Technology for Ultrasound Training
Training clinicians to properly scan patients with ultrasound probe, particularly in countries with a poor medical education infrastructure, can be a slow process. While the cost and accessibility of ultrasound is dropping rapidly, the number of people qualified to use this equipment is not keeping up. A team at General Electric is now working on [ (Read more...)
FDA Approves Planmed’s Budget Friendly, but Attractive Clarity 2D Mammography System
Planmed, a Finnish company specializing in breast cancer radiography systems, won FDA approval for its Clarity 2D digital mammography device. The Clarity 2D is a budget mammography system that has a lot of the features that exist in more expensive systems. Planmed touts its TriFilter technology that produces high quality images at a low radiation [ (Read more...)
DiffuserCam: Lensless 3D Imaging without Scanning
Three dimensional images can now be created from a single two dimensional image using a new computational imaging technique developed by a research team at the University of California, Berkeley. A hallmark of the new approach is that it does not require a complex, expensive hardware setup, but instead relies on a compact, inexpensive, lensless [&h (Read more...)