GE Healthcare’s Discovery CT750 HD scanner has been included in the first ever fully positive recommendation from the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)’s Diagnostic Assessment Programme, opening the door for increasing use of the technology in Coronary Artery disease assessment.
Imaging
UK’s NICE Approves New-Generation CT Scanners
Safety, cost-effectiveness and quality are the key parameters that lie behind NICE’s approval of four new-generation cardiac computed tomography (CT) scanners for use by the NHS in Coronary Artery Disease patients.
Planmed’s Newly CE Marked Extremity CT Scanner Delivers Fast, Accurate, Low Dose 3D Imaging
Planmed’s Verity, a new, mobile extremity scanner for orthopedic imaging of the extremities has gained CE mark approval, bringing a new level of accuracy, speed, low dosage and adaptability to CT scanning.
Vertebral Motion Analyser System Receives FDA Clearance
Ortho Kinematics Inc has announced FDA clearance for its KineGraph VMA system. The company aims to replace the flexion/extension x-ray method of detecting spinal dysfunction
Digital Agenda for Europe’s “Virtual Liver” Helps Detect Liver Tumours
Scientists and surgeons from France, Germany, United Kingdom and Switzerland have developed a “virtual liver”, using EU research funding, which will help surgeons better plan and carry out tumour operations and ensure quicker patient recovery.
Photoacoustic Device Could Mean Earlier, Faster, Cheaper Cancer Cell Detection
Commercial production of a new device that measures melanoma using photoacoustics, or laser-induced ultrasound, will soon be available to scientists and academia for cancer studies.
Steris and Toshiba To Collaborate On Hybrid Surgical Suites.
STERIS Corporation and Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc.have formed an alliance to offer advanced vascular, cardiovascular, pediatric and neurosurgical hybrid surgical suites.
Digital ArtForms iMedic3D Brings Immersive Interaction to Medical Imaging
Here’s a feature on Medgadget’s coverage of the new iMedic3D imaging navigation system from Digital Artforms.
US Radiological Society Meeting Last Week
The Radiological Society of North America held its 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting in Chicago from Sunday, November 27 – Friday, December 2.
NICE recognises the clinical potential of the EOS 2D/3D imaging system, encouraging use in the specialist research setting
UK’s NICE has published diagnostic guidance encouraging the use of the EOS 2D/3D imaging system in specialist research settings.
GE Healthcare Responds to UK Report on NHS Utilisation of Equipment
“We believe that a whole system approach to early diagnosis and intervention would increase utilisation of high value equipment,” says GE Healthcare on reports of inefficiency in use of equipment in the NHS.
St. Jude Medical Announces FDA Clearance of First and Only Combined FFR and OCT System
Following its launch in Europe earlier this year, St Jude’s Ilumien OCT/FFR Coronary Artery Disease diagnostic tool
UK’s first Molecular MR delivered to UCH
Advanced multi modality system takes its place in new £100 million Cancer Care facility due to open in Spring 2012
Abu Dhabi’s Al Rawdah German Medical Center invests in “new European medical technology”
From insoles to MRI, European Medtech continues to find its way into the Middle East
Results of MR guided focused ultrasound study could open doors to treating other brain disorders
Pilot clinical trial indicates that MR-guided focused ultrasound has the potential to safely and effectively control essential tremor
New study into targeted molecular imaging probes for non-invasive detection of breast cancer lymph node metastasis.
Non-invasive Detection of Breast Cancer Lymph Node Metastasis using Carbonic Anhydrases IX and XII Targeted Imaging Probes.