CT Angiography (CTA)

This channel includes news and new technology innovations for CT systems using a series of X-ray images to create an image volume data set that can be sliced or manipulated on any plane using advanced visualization software. The section includes computed tomography scanners, CT contrast agents, CT angiography (CTA and CCTA), CT perfusion, spectral CT (dual souce CT), and interative reconstruction dose reduction software.

Feature | Dave Fornell

There has been growing clinical evidence to show computed tomography (CT) coronary artery calcium scoring shows a close ...

Time May 28, 2014
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May 21, 2014 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared Siemens Healthcare's Somatom Force computed ...

Time May 21, 2014
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May 20, 2014 — Siemens Healthcare announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the 16- and 32-slice ...

Time May 20, 2014
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April 15, 2014 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted 510(k) market clearance for the GE Healthcare ...

Time April 15, 2014
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April 7, 2014 — Coronary artery calcium scoring, a test that measures the amount and pattern of calcium that has ...

Time April 08, 2014
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December 26, 2013 — A study shows that coronary artery calcium (CAC) screening, an assessment tool that is not currently ...

Time December 26, 2013
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December 9, 2013 — GE Healthcare announced at the Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting (RSNA 2013) in ...

Time December 09, 2013
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November 22, 2013 — A 320-detector computed tomography (CT) scanner that shows both anatomy within coronary arteries and ...

Time November 22, 2013
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November 1, 2013 — Clinical trial results demonstrated that a noninvasive coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) ...

Time November 01, 2013
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Feature | Dave Fornell

In an era when increasing efficiency, reducing costs and facing an increasing influx in the number of patients is of ...

Time September 27, 2013
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August 30, 2013 — To counter the significant levels of morbidity and mortality associated with pericardial disease ...

Time August 30, 2013
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August 15, 2013 — Former President George W. Bush underwent heart surgery on the morning of Aug. 6, 2013, to receive a ...

Time August 15, 2013
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August 6, 2013 — A clinical study of two sets of 894 matched emergency department (ED) patients presenting with chest ...

Time August 06, 2013
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Feature | Dave Fornell

Radiation exposure from multidetector computed tomography (CT) has become a pressing public health concern in both lay ...

Time July 23, 2013
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July 8, 2013 — North Shore University Hospital (NSUH) announced it has installed the most advanced cardiac computed ...

Time July 08, 2013
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Cerebral aneurysms of all sizes—even small ones below seven millimeters—are 12 times more likely to rupture if they are ...

Time July 01, 2013
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March 13, 2013 — Atherosclerosis is usually considered to be a disease of modern human beings, related to contemporary ...

Time March 13, 2013
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February 27, 2013 — The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) has released a list of five interventions ...

Time February 27, 2013
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February 5, 2013 — A prospective clinical study was published recently in the American Journal of Roentgenology on ...

Time February 05, 2013
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February 5, 2013 — A new computed tomography (CT) scanner substantially reduces potentially harmful radiation while ...

Time February 05, 2013
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