The SonoAce X8
Eliminating Windows-based image protocols, SONOACE in Germany, has produced the SonoAce X8 which, the firm reports, is the first Smart S/W protocol-based ultrasound image processing system.
Ultrasound: New Guidelines
Guidelines increase the use of contrast agents.
Neonatal MRI of premature babies
Infants born very prematurely have a high probability of experiencing behavioural and neuro-cognitive impairments during childhood and adolescence.
Vision Inside the Heart
A small, powerful new ultrasound catheter, named AcuNav 8F, improves access to the entire heart, Siemens Medical Solutions reports.
Increasing the range of minimally invasive tumour therapy
Surgery is no longer the automatic choice to eradicate malignant tumours.
Networking cardiovascular imaging
There is no lack of IT and software solutions for putting digitisation and networks into practice; however, many hospitals wonder how the implementation will work in practice and whether the investment will prove successful.
Dual source CT reduces heart catheterisations
Prof. Stehphan Achenbach about his experience with the dual source CT and its impact on cardiac diagnostics.
Microspheres destroy liver tumours
Unlike conventional radiation therapy, selective, internal radiotherapy (SIRT), uses tiny radio-active microspheres to attack malignant liver tumours.
Advanced catheters
Smiths Medical launched a newly range of advanced embryo replacement catheters for in vitro fertilisation.
The extracorporeal lung
German medical technology firm Novalung GmbH (est. 2002) produces extracorporeal artificial lungs.
European Respiratory Society Congress
`Respiratory diseases are still a huge burden for our countries,´ Giovanni Viegi, President of the European Respiratory Society pointed out at the congress.
The 8th International Conference On Nuclear Cardiology
The ICNC meeting attracs a lot of attention since there is a focus on PET and CT.
The Lancet highlights cardiac research
Among the research articles published in this issue, are some ...
The digital cath lab imaging system with fully-integrated IVUS
GE Healthcare and Volcano Corporation have combined GE's Innova digital X-ray cath lab system with Volcano's new PC-based IVUS platform.
Philips From X-rays to Motiva homecare
To learn more about the presence of Philips in healthcare - and particularly cardiology - our Netherlands correspondent visited the company in Amsterdam.
World Congress of Cardiology 2006
Professor Raimung Erbel, of the West GErman Heart Centre Esse, Duisburg University Hospital aobut the hot topics of this years´congress.
PET/CT
PET/CT combines PET's ability to precisely measure regional myocardial blood flow with the capability of multislice CT imaging.
What's new in PET technology?
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a fancy tool for metabolic imaging. This week Tom Lewellen from the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle takes a detailed look on what is to expect of the recent developments in PET detector technology.
Financing a turnkey project in Poland
The Kopernik Angio Centre, which opened last November in Lodz, Poland, is a five million euro turnkey project. In 1998, the radiology department at the Kopernik hospital needed modernisation, but the hospital's owner - the province of Lodz - could not afford such a large investment and, as a public institution, the hospital itself could not seek a financial loan. A way around the problem was…
Collaboration between imaging facilities
Peter Bogner MD PhD describes current projects aimed at enhancing patient care in South-West Hungary.
Innovations:
By Professor Maximilian F Reiser, director of the Institute of Clinical Radiology at the University Clinic, Munich, Germany
Mobile radiology diagnoses
MORTIS is a new teleradiology system which utilises high-resolution laptops to receive images for diagnostic purposes.
Pushing for prevention
At the 11th International MR Symposium radiologists were urged to co-ordinate a campaign to detect disease earlier, and a new 'tandem' concept for diagnosis and therapy was revealed.