Contrast Media
Contrast media, also called contrast agents, are used to enhance the blood and perfusion in tissues. This includes iodine based contrast for on computed tomography (CT), gadolinium based agents for MRI and lipid bubble contrast agents used in ultrasound.
Technology | October 14, 2014
October 14, 2014 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Lumason (sulfur hexafluoride lipid microsphere...
Feature | October 03, 2014 | Raissa Rocha
The use of contrast media in many imaging...
News | September 30, 2014
September 30, 2014 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has allowed marketing of the NephroCheck test, a first-of-a-...
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Characteristics nephrologists associate with renal high-risk patients. (n=13)
Feature | Contrast Media | September 05, 2019
The global rise in chronic disease has significantly increased demand for diagnostic imaging procedures, and in turn...
Technology | September 25, 2014
September 25, 2014 — Mallinckrodt announced the U.S. launch of the OptiSync data management system as a new technology...
Feature | September 10, 2014
September 10, 2014 — According to new research performed at the Mayo Clinic, iodine-based contrast material injected...
Applying a method that uses nanoparticles to create visual contrast, a researcher created the above photoacoustic image of a mouse intestine. The colors indicate the depth of the intestine (red: deep blue: shallow). Photo courtesy Jonathan Lovell.
News | August 14, 2014
August 14, 2014 — A multi-institutional team of researchers has developed a new nanoscale agent for imaging the...
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Power injectors can improve efficiency and patient safety, for example, ensuring that contrast agent is not wasted due to the lack of a saline bolus. Image courtesy of Lior Molvin
Blog | Contrast Media | July 31, 2019
Injector technology development carries on the evolution of contrast agents
Feature | August 11, 2014
August 11, 2014 — Imaging experts from the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) released a paper, "Guidelines for...
News | July 24, 2014
July 24, 2014 — Scientists have designed a new self-assembling nanoparticle that targets tumors, to help doctors...
Images show the effect of exercise on fat inside bone marrow.*
Feature | July 16, 2014
July 16, 2014 — In your bones, there is fat. Why? Researchers do not know, but they have theories. How does it get...
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Image courtesy of Lior Molvin
Blog | Contrast Media | July 15, 2019
Contrast agents improve every kind of medical image from computed tomography (CT) to magnetic resonance imaging (MR...
Feature | July 03, 2014
July 3, 2014 — The American Society of Echocardiography Foundation (ASEF) launched the second version of its free...
Technology | June 20, 2014
FDA Approves Gadavist (Gadobutrol) Injection as First Contrast Agent for Breast MRI in United States
June 20, 2014 — Bayer HealthCare announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new indication for...
Technology | April 18, 2014
FDA Approves Lipiodol (Ethiodized Oil) to Image Tumors in Adults With Known Hepatocellular Carcinoma
April 18, 2014 — Guerbet announced that Lipiodol was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), indicated...
Feature | April 04, 2014
Head-to-Head Study Reports Patient Comfort With Iodixanol, Iopamidol During Peripheral Arteriography
April 4, 2014 — GE Healthcare announced results from a new...
News | March 26, 2014
March 26, 2014 – Manhattan Scientifics announced a collaboration with Azano Biotech that will make NanoMRX Precision...
Feature | March 11, 2014
March 11, 2014 — Guerbet announced a worldwide launch of FlowSens, a...
Feature | March 05, 2014
March 5, 2014 — Researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute and Department of Neurosurgery...
Feature | January 31, 2014
January 31, 2014 — Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have achieved higher resolution...
Feature | December 18, 2013
December 18, 2013 — For the first time, researchers have confirmed an association between a common magnetic resonance...
Feature | November 26, 2013
November 26, 2013 — Researchers say they have achieved enough coherence of the magnetic moment inherent in the defects...
