Cardiac Imaging

The cardiac imaging channel includes the modalities of computed tomography (CT), cardiac ultrasound (echocardiography), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear imaging (PET and SPECT), and angiography.

News | PET Imaging

Markus Schwaiger, MD, receives SNMMI Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award

June 21, 2022 — Markus Schwaiger, MD, a scientist known for his contributions to cardiac PET imaging, has been named as ...

June 21, 2022

System geometry, imaging mechanism, and performance evaluation of a self-collimating SPECT for fast dynamic cardiac imaging

News | SPECT Imaging

Revolutionary Technology Shortens Cardiac Scan Time, Provides High-quality SPECT Images

June 15, 2022 — A cardiac SPECT imaging system performs scans 10 to 100 times faster than current SPECT systems ...

June 15, 2022

Representative case with acute anterior wall myocardial infarction: Myocardial perfusion images using 99mTc-tetrofosmin at rest (first row), 68Ga-FAPI-46 PET (second row), late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) from cardiac magnetic resonance (third row) and schematic drawings of the left ventricle (fourth row). Area of fibroblast activation exceeds infarct area and LGE signal, most common type of myocardial FAP-distribution. Bottom left: Mean areas of perfusion defect, FAPI-signal and LGE of 35 studied patients

News | PET Imaging

SNMMI Image of the Year: New Biomarker Predicts Severity of Cardiac Remodeling After Heart Attack

June 15, 2022 — Poor functional outcomes after a heart attack can be predicted with a new PET imaging agent, 68Ga-FAPI ...

June 15, 2022

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Videos | Radiology Imaging

True Volume TEE, The Next Step in 3-D Imaging

Siemens introduces True volume TEE transducer. This 3-D/4-D 90°x90° TEE solution enables clinically meaningful ...

October 17, 2014

Radiation to the heart during treatment for locally advanced lung cancer is associated with an increased risk of major adverse cardiac events within the first two years following treatment. The higher the cardiac dose exposure, the higher the risk of a cardiac event.

News | Lung Imaging

Simple Changes in Care Reduced Heart Exposure During Lung Cancer Radiation Treatment

April 11, 2022 — Radiation to the heart during treatment for locally advanced lung cancer is associated with an ...

April 11, 2022

Webinar | Cardiac Imaging

WEBINAR: How Northwell Health System is Getting Ahead with an Enterprise CVIT Solution

Join Dr. Nicholas T. Skipitaris, Western Regional Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology at Northwell Health for a ...

March 21, 2022

The rapidly deployed PICOM365 Cloud solution provides the Huntsville, Texas hospital enterprise imaging workflow for Cardiology including ECG, Radiology including 3D Tomo, and advanced Teleradiology for third party diagnostics.

News | Enterprise Imaging

ScImage Announces Enterprise Cloud Install at Huntsville Memorial Hospital

March 16, 2022 — ScImage, Inc., a leading provider of Cloud-centric enterprise imaging and reporting solutions ...

March 16, 2022

Already used in single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) for adult patients, Rapiscan is now approved for use in stress cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR)

News | SPECT Imaging

GE Healthcare’s Stress Agent Rapiscan Approved for use in Stress Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

February 18, 2022 — GE Healthcare has announced that it has received approval from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) ...

February 18, 2022

Myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) after vaccination is rare, but some cases have been reported after receipt of the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

February 17, 2022 — While cardiac imaging shows that COVID-19 vaccine–associated myocarditis has a similar pattern as ...

February 17, 2022

Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc. – the world leader in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) solutions – has added to its next-generation POCUS portfolio with the launch of its new, premium Sonosite LX system, featuring the company’s largest clinical image and a monitor that extends, rotates and tilts to enable enhanced, real-time provider collaboration.

News | Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS)

FUJIFILM Sonosite Launches Sonosite LX

February 15, 2022 — Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc. – a world leader in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) solutions – has added ...

February 15, 2022

COVID-19 vaccine associated myocarditis. Short-axis 1.5T MRI images and ECG findings of a 19-year-old man with myopericarditis who presented with chest pain 3 days following the second dose of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine (mRNA-1273). Cardiac MRI performed 2 days after symptom onset demonstrates mid wall to subepicardial late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) at the basal to mid inferior lateral wall with adjacent pericardial enhancement (A, red arrow), corresponding hyperintensity on T2-weighted imaging (B, orange

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

MRI Sheds Light on COVID Vaccine-Associated Heart Muscle Injury

February 15, 2022 — Vaccine-associated myocarditis shows a similar injury pattern on cardiac MRI compared to other ...

February 15, 2022

With the addition of Pulse Wave Doppler [1], Philips has greatly expanded the utility of its Handheld Ultrasound – Lumify – enabling clinicians to quantify blood flow in a wide range of point-of-care diagnostic applications – including cardiology, vascular, abdominal, urology, obstetrics and gynecology.

News | Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS)

Philips Expands Ultrasound Portfolio with Handheld POCUS

February 9, 2022 — Philips, a global leader in health technology, announced it has expanded its ultrasound portfolio ...

February 09, 2022

Lee Health’s Gulf Coast Medical Center in Fort Myers, Fla., recently became the first U.S. healthcare institution to install the Somatom X.ceed, a premium single-source computed tomography scanner from Siemens Healthineers.

News | Computed Tomography (CT)

Siemens Healthineers Announces First U.S. Install of Somatom X.ceed Premium Single-source CT Scanner

January 31, 2022 — Lee Health’s Gulf Coast Medical Center in Fort Myers, Fla., recently became the first U.S. healthcare ...

January 31, 2022

Adult patient case suspect of potential narrowing of the middle cerebral artery, however, a repositioned scan (right) with normal Doppler flow approximating 60 cm/s implies no disease in the artery except for tortuosity.

Feature | Ultrasound Imaging | By Lennard M. Gettz, and Noelle Cutter, Ph.D. Edited by Robert L. Bard, M.D. DABR, FASL

2021 Review: Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound Imaging

Since the advent of ultrasound scanning in the 1950s, the global movement to develop and expand its diagnostic features ...

January 21, 2022

Case examples of quantitative plaque analysis on coronary CT angiography and 18F-NaF PET in patients with established coronary artery disease. Hybrid CT angiography and 18F-NaF PET of coronary arteries. (A) A 70-y-old male, who presented with diffused largely noncalcified disease (middle panel in red) in the LAD and demonstrated increased 18F-NaF uptake in the LAD on PET. (B) A 59-y-old male with mild LCX atherosclerosis, who presented with a high noncalcified plaque burden (middle panel in red) on CT angio

News | PET-CT

PET/CT Artificial Intelligence Model Ideal for Predicting Risk of Future Heart Attack

January 12, 2022 — By combining information from two advanced imaging techniques with clinical data, physicians can ...

January 12, 2022