A recently completed National Institutes of Health-funded trial confirms the efficacy of blood flow measurement technology from VasSol Inc. to predict the possibility of repeated stroke in at-risk individuals.

NOVA (Non-invasive Optimal Vessel Analysis)

Pediatric cardiology researchers and clinicians from numerous centers around the world gathered at the Cardiology 2015: the 18th Annual Update on Pediatric and Congenital Cardiovascular Disease conference, Feb. 11-15 in Scottsdale, Ariz. sponsored by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Phoenix Children’s Hospital.

At the 2015 annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Carestream will demostrate its flexible Clinical Collaboration Platform, which now offers a new module to tag clinical data files and bring them into the workflow. These new capabilities build upon Carestream’s fully featured vendor neutral archive (VNA) architecture.

Clinical Collaboration Platform

One of the hottest topics in current Alzheimer’s research is brain scans that visualize tau pathology in living people. With the advent of positron emission tomography (PET) tracers that label neurofibrillary tangles, researchers are now able to "see" and quantify both hallmark pathologies defined by Alois Alzheimer in 1906: amyloid plaques and tau tangles. Tau tracers dominated the agenda when 340 researchers convened in Miami Beach, Florida, recently to debate the current edge in human amyloid imaging.

Accuray Inc. announced that the first TomoTherapy System in Latin America dedicated solely to the treatment of breast cancer is now operational at FUCAM (Fundacion de Cancer de Mama) in Mexico City. More than 120 women have been treated with the radiation-therapy technology since the center began using it more than two months ago.

At the 2015 National Football League (NFL) Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, a Carestream DRX-1 detector will be used with the existing X-ray system at Lucas Oil Stadium to produce high-quality diagnostic images in seconds.

DREAMS (DRug Eluting Absorbable Metal Scaffold)

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