'I was very surprised!' said cardiologist Dr Maria Prokudina, of the Almazof Federal Centre of Heart, Blood and Endocrinology, when invited by Professor John Elefteriades MD, head of Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Yale-New Haven Hospital (University School of Medicine) to lecture about Stress Echocardiography in Clinical Practice.
Due to significant developments in ultrasound contrast media and equipment technology even the finest blood vessels can be visible through contrast-enhanced sonography.
Designed on all-digital architecture, Mirror 2 delivers outstanding performance and smooth workflow to meet different needs for patients and clinicians, reports manufacturer Landwind International Medical Science Pte Ltd.
Sonoace*, the Germany-based 3D/4D ultrasound systems specialist – the first to develop and market 3-D ultrasound image technology – is launching its new Accuvix V20 model internationally. This model is the new generation product in the Accuvix series, Medison's well-known flagship model.
In 2007, Professor Andreas Franke, of Aachen University Medical Center, Germany, was the first cardiologist in Europe to perform minimally invasive cardiac catheterisation procedures under live 3-D ultrasound guidance.
An ultrasound imaging technique that picks up early evidence of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) currently missed in conventional tests has been developed by researchers* at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU).
USA - 3-D ultrasound technology developed at Duke University provides images of the brain vessels in real-time, which could be miniaturised in coming years for use in ambulances. In an initial pilot study, the system has passed the proof-of-principle.
High frequency ultrasound (US) techniques continue to improve with better resolution and exquisite B Mode imaging, particularly with improved compounding techniques seen with the Aplipure+ product. However, particular focus has been on improving techniques for breast imaging and one distinctly novel idea is to highlight microcalcifications within tissues.
Sonoelastography, a procedure that measures the elasticity of tissue and differentiates between healthy and hardened pathological tissue, will make cancer diagnosis safer in the future. For example, it has been shown to improve the accuracy of prostate cancer diagnosis by 20%.
ProVision 80, a shared-service colour Doppler all-digital system, provides an all-in-one solution for abdominal, obstetrics/gynaecology, cardiovascular, small parts, paediatric, and musculoskeletal applications, the manufacturer Chison Medical Imaging Co. reports.
Hitachi has developed a new abdominal sonography system, based on a fully digital platform with a unique high-performance computer and an innovative octal parallel wideband beamformer, the firm reports.
GE Healthcare in unveiling LOGIQ E9, a pioneering sonography system that can generate a precise image fusion from CT/MRT and sonographic volume data, the firm reports.
If, in the early days of mammary sonography, it was revealed to be helpful to render tactual findings in a visible manner (sonic palpation), then now is the time to palpate clinically occult findings in a new manner (Elastoscan).
A growing number of Dutch hospital doctors now favour ultrasound (US) over CT scans to detect appendicitis in children. This trend has re-opened the US v. CT debate over which diagnostic method is more effective, cost-effective and safest for a child's longer-term health needs.
The Centre for Medical Imaging Ruhr (zmb ruhr) in Bochum offers the technological infrastructure for the development of therapeutic and diagnostic imaging procedures. The primary focus is on ultrasound — the most commonly used imaging procedure in Germany, delivering the highest volume of examinations.
Siemens Healthcare is showing a very innovative application on the new ACUSON S2000 ultrasound system. “The software packages Virtual Touch tissue imaging and Virtual Touch tissue quantification represent the clinical realisation of a method, previously known as Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) technology”, the firm explains.
A UK collaboration, led by an optical imaging company has produced its first optical coherence tomography (OCT) tissue images at a wavelength of 1 µm. Based on interferometry, OCT works by analysing near-infrared light reflected from a sample and using differences in the reflected intensities to create high-resolution images. Employing 1 µm light - as opposed to the longer wavelength…
In October, the office of the Federal President announced that Professor Haverich, with his Hanover research team, has been nominated for the 'German Future Prize' for the development and successful use of adaptable biological heart valves
A team of researchers from Brazil recently published details of a free-to-air software called CALDose_X which is being billed as a milestone towards the goal of patient-specific dosimetry in X-ray diagnosis.
High frequency ultrasound (US) techniques continue to improve with better resolution and exquisite B-Mode imaging, particularly with improved compounding techniques seen with the Aplipure product.
Siemens Healthcare has opened a new research centre in Cologne, where around 40 employees are developing new diagnostic tests to describe the molecular characteristics of breast cancer cells, to help physicians to select individual therapy.
Edan Instruments Inc., based in Shenzhen, China, is one of the leading medical equipment manufacturers involved in R&D, manufacturing and marketing.
Last year, orthopaedics and sports medicine specialist Dr Rainer Burgkart (left), who is also a musculoskeletal researcher, selected a new C-Arm for use at the Technical University of Munich (Klinikum rechts der Isar). Recently, we asked him for the reasons behind this choice and his subsequent experience with this device.
If, in the early days of mammary sonography, it was revealed to be helpful to render tactual findings in a visible manner (sonic palpation), then now is the time to palpate clinically occult findings in a new manner (Elastoscan*).
This September, Carestream Health revealed the first wireless cassette-size DR Detector. The Carestream DRX-1 system, which incorporates a console and wireless 14x17 inch cassette-size digital radiography (DR) detector, provides a rapid, affordable conversion for users of radiographic film or computed radiography systems, Carestream explains.
