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Headquarters: SCHILLER AG, Altgasse 68, CH-6341 Baar Phone +41 41 766 42 42, Fax +41 41 761 08 80 sales@schiller.ch, www.schiller.ch Robust design and high-performance SCHILLER’s CARDIOVIT AT-170 Wide high-resolution touch screen for easy ECG review Full-size keyboard with a durable cover keeping dust, dirt and liquids away, making it highly hygienic ETM Sport, the first automated interpretation of athletes’ ECGs based on the Seattle Criteria NEW HIGH-END ELECTROCARDIOGRAPH Visit us at the MEDICA 16.–19.11.2015 Hall 09/E05 www.healthcare-in-europe.com 11CARDIOLOGY ntless application ilot study results and CE approval versatile LED lamp Real-time MR images of the beating heart lighter, rdiac monitor edical Company, is based on the next d light, long life and low energy s suitable for countless applications – it is ideal for diagnosis, gynaecology, Today, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows more gentle, precise, and cost-effective heart disease diagnosis. However, up to now, using MRI to diagnose cardiovas- cular diseases has been limited – image acquisition is not fast enough to monitor cardiac movement due to breathing and heartbeat interfer- ence. Patients have to hold their breath during an electrocardiogram (ECG) – the only way to match the separate images to the appropriate heartbeat phase during subsequent image reconstruction. Chemistry, in Göttingen, provides a remedy for these problems. Göttingen experts, working under Professor Jens Frahm, developed a method for real-time MR imaging. “Images with extremely shortened measurement time enable acquisi- tion of films of the beating heart with 30 to 50 images per second, free breathing, and no use of ECG. This method allows physicians to observe the heart muscle or blood flow reactions under physi- cal strain directly,’ Frahm explains. Fraunhofer MEVIS developed the Small children who cannot con- trol their breathing must be sedated for the procedure. In addition, for those patients with cardiac arrhythmia, the ECG simply cannot deliver reliable data for an image reconstruction. The CaFuR (Cardiac Function in Real Time) project, a recent- ly completed joint venture of the Fraunhofer-Institute for Medical Image Computing (MEVIS), in Bremen, and the Biomedizinische NMR Forschungs GmbH at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical required image analysis methods, including an algorithm that auto- matically identifies the breathing and heart contraction phases in the data independent of the ECG infor- mation. ‘One challenge we had to over- come was the substantial amount of data,’ says medical engineer Dr Anja Hennemuth, project manager at MEVIS. ‘Up to eight gigabytes of image data can be acquired during an examination, which is impossible for doctors to manually analyse.’ and easy-to-clean I-SENSE control panel,’ the manufacturer confirms, and lists attributes that include light intensity adjustment; DoF – depth of field – for a deep light; Endo – for endoscopy; Size – light spot diameter adjustment to focus the operating area; Sync – an optional function to synchronise controls of the combined lamps: StarLED3 NX double (twin dome configuration) and StarLED3 NX with StarLED5 NX or StarLED7 NX. The lamp also can be ceiling, wall or trolley mounted (with ABPS bat- tery on demand). vector length,’ said Dr Sze-Yuan Ooi, at the Prince of Wales Hospital, in Sydney. ‘I’m hopeful that future tri- als will show that this translates into improved diagnostic abilities.’ ‘BioMonitor 2 is designed for highly accurate and reliable long- term continuous remote monitoring of patients with atrial fibrillation, syncope, bradycardia and tachycar- dia,’ the manufacturer reports. With the device to be available in Europe soon, Manuel Ortega, Senior Vice President at Berlin-based Biotronik said: ‘Its accurate sensing and detec- tion, combined with its transmis- sion success and data capacity will provide doctors with more useful information on a patient’s condition over time.’ Phone +41417664242, Fax +41417610880

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