Siemens won FDA clearance for its Biograph Horizon Flow edition, a budget friendly positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scanner that includes some advanced features of its more expensive cousin. The main selling point is that the new device includes FlowMotion continuous bed motion scanning technology, an offering that was previously introduced on Siemens Biograph mCT Flow […]
Tag: Radiology
BIOTRONIK Releases in U.S. Its Compact Edora Line of MR Conditional Pacemakers
BIOTRONIK is releasing in the U.S. its Edora line of pacemakers that come with the firm’s MRI AutoDetect technology. MRI AutoDetect, which makes the Edora SR-T the smallest MR conditional device on the market, is a setting that is enabled by a physician up to fourteen days prior to an MRI scan. When the patient […]
Hologic Genius 3D Tomosynthesis Mammography System FDA Approved for Better Visualization of Dense Breasts
Hologic received FDA approval to offer its Genius 3D Mammography system as superior to traditional 2D mammography for screening of women with dense breasts. Though Genius 3D has been available in the U.S. since 2011, recently performed clinical studies have demonstrated that “the exam improves invasive breast cancer detection while reducing unnecessary recalls among women […]
Siemens Unveils Symbia Intevo Bold SPECT/CT, a Scanner Built to Offer Multiple Scanning Applications
Siemens is unveiling a new SPECT/CT (single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography) system in the coming days at the annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging in Denver, Colorado. The Symbia Intevo Bold SPECT/CT can be used in either modality, allowing a hospital to offer SPECT and CT imaging on a single machine. […]
DABRA Laser Ablates Blocked Arteries
Ra Medical, a company out of Carlsbad, California, received FDA clearance and is reporting the first commercial use of its DABRA laser-based arterial blockage ablation system. Unlike most other intravascular tools used for removing arterial plaque that rely on mechanical methods, the DABRA is an excimer laser that emits at a wavelength of 308 nm, […]
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Cardiac Valve FDA Approved for Mitral and Aortic Valve-in-Valve Procedures
Edwards Lifesciences received FDA approval for its SAPIEN 3 transcatheter prosthetic heart valve to be used for valve-in-valve procedures. Indicated for placement within both the aortic and mitral valves in patients at risk of undergoing open heart surgery to remove an existing valve, the SAPIEN 3 can reside within a previously implanted bioprosthetic valve that has […]
Sentinel Cerebral Protection System for Preventing Strokes During Transcatheter Valve Repairs Cleared by FDA
While transcatheter aortic valve repair (TAVR) procedures can help avoid open heart surgeries in many fragile patients, there is a substantial risk that embolic debris is released from the calcified valves. The brain is particularly in danger, as the dislodged material can block blood vessels feeding it and result in strokes. Claret Medical out of Santa Rosa, […]
PerfectLum on Dell’s Ultrasharp UP3017 Monitor FDA Cleared for Diagnostic Use
QUBYX, a Wilmington, Delaware-based company that develops computer monitor calibration tools, has received FDA clearance for its PerfectLum system to be used with the 4K Dell Ultrasharp UP3017 display for viewing DICOM images, including basing diagnoses off of them. The package can be purchased as one, which includes the monitor, PerfectLum software, and an X-Rite i1 […]
3D Printed Pediatric Stents That Grow With Patient’s Vessels
Sadly, it is not only old people that receive cardiac stent implants. Often young children with certain cardiovascular conditions can benefit significantly from stent implantations and conduits, but because vasculature grows along with the rest of the body, the stents’ benefits can be short lived and not fully realized. Now researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology […]
New Metamaterial Helps Improve High Field MRI Scans
Scientists from Leiden University in The Netherlands and ITMO University in Moscow, Russia have developed a new material that improves the image quality of high-field MRI scanners. The material can be used along with existing MRI coil arrays, as it’s flexible and is not very thick, and so can be integrated near the coils. The […]
Cordis Unveil New Interventional Cardiology Products
Cordis, the interventional vascular arm of Cardinal Health, has announced three new additions to its cardiology portfolio for use in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The new products were on show at EUROPCR 2017 in Paris this week and include the RAILWAY Sheathless Access System and two new percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PCTA) balloon catheters: […]
Body Vision Medical’s LungVision System Merges Pre-Op CT with Intraoperative Imaging
Lung lesions these days are typically found and mapped via CT scans, that provide an imaging resolution sufficient to see them. During biopsies and surgeries, fluoroscopes are used, but their lower image quality makes it usually impossible to actually see whether you’re excising the correct tissue’s margins. Body Vision Medical, with offices in Israel and New […]
Full Body Optoacoustic Functional Imaging of Small Animals
Researchers working at Duke University and Washington University in St. Louis developed a new photoacoustic technique called single-impulse photoacoustic computed tomography (SIP-PACT) that provides an amazing high resolution look inside small living animals such as mice. Photoacoustic imaging involves shining a laser light into tissue, which generates pulses of sound waves due to the tissue heating […]
Infervision’s Artificial Intelligence Software Detects Suspected Tumors on Standard Imaging Scans
Infervision, a Chinese company, has been integrating deep learning artificial intelligence to the practice of radiology in order to improve the detection rates of early stage tumors. The technology relies on analyzing tens of thousands of X-rays and CT scans that have been used to perform a diagnosis and to use that base of knowledge […]
INSIGHTEC’s Exablate Neuro MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound Now Approved with 1.5T Scanners
INSIGHTEC, maker of MR-guided focused ultrasound systems out of Israel, has received FDA approval to have its Exablate Neuro system alongside ‘s 1.5 Tesla MRI to be used for treatment of essential tremor in patients not sufficiently responding to drugs. Using MRI to image and target the ventral intermediate (VIM) thalamic nucleus in the brain, the system […]
Abiomed Unveils 3rd Generation Impella CP Heart Pump for PCI and Cardiogenic Shock
Abiomed, the maker of implantable cardiac assistive devices, has just announced its new 3rd generation Impella CP heart pump. The device is designed to assist the native heart during percutaneous coronary interventional (PCI) procedures that can be difficult to tolerate for fragile patients, as well as to stabilize those post cardiac infarct that resulted in cardiogenic shock. […]
Elekta Releases Unity, The First Commercial High-Field MR-Linac System
Elekta, the famous Swedish maker of radiation therapy, radiosurgery, and brachytherapy systems, is finally releasing a linear accelerator therapy and magnetic resonance imaging scanner in one unified system. Many physicists and engineers thought that this would be impossible, as quickly moving charged particles shooting out of an accelerator are strongly affected by a magnetic field. But […]
First Alzheimer’s Patient Treated with Focused Ultrasound to Open Blood-Brain Barrier
The blood-brain barrier prevents almost all potentially therapeutic drugs from passing into the brain. This has been a major roadblock for clinical neurology, but we may have a solution, perhaps a partial one, in the form of focused ultrasound. The first Alzheimer’s patient has just been treated using ultrasound to open up the blood-brain barrier […]
LOCalizer Non-Radioactive Breast Lesion Localization System Now FDA Cleared
Tucson, Arizona-based Faxitron won FDA clearance to introduce its LOCalizer radio frequency identification (RFID) lesion localization system intended for tagging and subsequently honing in on breast lesions during surgeries. Radioactive tags and implanted wires are currently being used to mark neoplastic and suspicious breast lesions. Unlike radioactive isotopes, the LOCalizer doesn’t emit ionizing radiation and […]
Contego Medical’s Vanguard IEP Cleared in Europe for Safer Balloon Angioplasties
Contego Medical of Raleigh, North Carolina won the European CE Mark to introduce its Vanguard IEP peripheral balloon angioplasty system. The product features the firm’s Integrated Embolic Protection (IEP) technology that captures embolic debris coming off occlusions being treated within the superficial femoral artery. The IEP looks a bit like a parachute that extends around the distal tip of […]