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.
`Moleculary´ medicine: now and the future
In an interview with Daniela Zimmermann, Executive Director of European Hospital, Dr Mohammad Naraghi, Head of the Department of Business Development at Siemens Medical Solutions, discussed developments in moleculary medicine, biochips, preventive diagnostics and a comprehensive and integrated health system for the future.
Pilot projects
A report from the 2nd Telemedicine Forum, organised by Tele Medical Systems AG (TMS).
European Hospital at the ECR
Daniela Zimmermann reports on the 2nd Hospital Administrator Forum.
The coming era of genetic medicine
By Stefan G Ruehm MD PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology, at the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, California
Article • Freezing cardiology
Cryoablation – a safer therapy for children with arrhythmias
Freezing abnormal electrical pathways in the hearts of young patients may be a safer alternative to zapping them with powerful radiofrequency probes to treat tachycardias and other arrhythmias, according to Dr Fabrizio Drago, of the Bambino Gesù Hospital, Rome. ‘If you have a child with a supraventricular tachycardia due to a re-entry circuit, or a target very close to the atrioventricular…
PET scanning the heart cuts costs
USA - Using positron emission tomography (PET) scanning rather than other types of imaging as the first tool to diagnose heart-vessel blockages is more accurate, less invasive and saves money, according to researchers reporting at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session in March.
Interview • Nuclear imaging
SPECT-CT versus PET-CT: The 'little sister'?
When it was suggested, during our interview with Dr Torsten Kuwert, Director and Professor of Clinical Nuclear Medicine, Clinic of Nuclear Medicine, at Friedrich-Alexander University Hospital, Erlangen, that SPECT-CT is the little sister of PET-CT, and that he might have preferred to install the ‘big brother’, Dr Kuwert pointed out the greater cost of PET, explaining: ‘The isotopes are more…
Continuing experiences with RIS and PACS
A short story about life with and without PACS - Part II - written at the Klinikum Krefeld, Germany and the Kantonssptial, Liestal, Switzerland.
