Cardiovascular Ultrasound

This channel includes news and new technology innovations about cardiovascular ultrasounds. Cardiovascular ultrasounds, or echocardiograms, use ultrasound imaging to provide a picture of the heart.

Lantheus announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) has approved DEFINITY (Perflutren Lipid Microsphere) as an ultrasound enhancing agent for use in pediatric patients with suboptimal echocardiograms, including those who have undergone heart transplant, or have Kawasaki disease or a congenital cardiovascular anomaly.
News | FDA
Lantheus Announces the FDA Approval of DEFINITY as Ultrasound Enhancing Agent for Use in Certain Pediatric Cardiovascular Patients

March 6, 2024 — Lantheus Holdings, Inc. (Lantheus), a radiopharmaceutical company, has announced that the U.S. Food and ...

Time March 06, 2024
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Franco Fontana
News | Radiology Business
Esaote Unveils its New Brand Identity at 2024 Worldwide Sales and Marketing Meeting, Florence

January 25, 2024 — Esaote Group, a leading Italian innovator in medical imaging, today unveiled its new brand identity ...

Time January 25, 2024
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The roundtable focused on the current challenges in diagnosing and treating lower extremity revascularization, knowledge and data gaps, and the potential role of IVUS in addressing these challenges
News | Interventional Radiology
SCAI, SIR, and SVS Jointly Publish Proceedings from Multispecialty Peripheral IVUS Roundtable

January 10, 2024 — Proceedings from an expert consensus roundtable that discussed the benefits of intravascular ...

Time January 10, 2024
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Technology-powered collaboration aims to deliver AI-enabled devices and digital solutions at the enterprise level to increase clinical and operational efficiencies, drive workflow enhancements and improve patient outcomes
News | Radiology Business
GE HealthCare and University Hospitals Enter 10-Year Strategic Collaboration to Contemporize Its Imaging Fleet and Implement Enterprise Digital Solutions to Help Improve Patient Care and Optimize Processes

October 10, 2023 — Realizing a vision to deliver the best care to patients close to where they live in northern Ohio, GE ...

Time October 10, 2023
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AI-powered technology will expand access to scans by enabling a broader set of healthcare providers to perform cardiac exams with real-time guidance at the point of care
News | Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS)
GE HealthCare Launches Enhanced Venue Family Point-of-Care Ultrasound Systems Featuring AI-Driven Caption Guidance

October 6, 2023 — GE HealthCare announced its Venue Family point-of-care ultrasound systems will now feature Caption ...

Time October 06, 2023
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Nearly 900 Butterfly devices have been distributed throughout Ukraine via global health partnerships, with Razom alone contributing more than 400 units
News | Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS)
Butterfly Network and Razom Expand Global Health Partnership To Bring Additional 200 Butterfly iQ+ Ultrasound Systems to Ukraine

October 4, 2023 — Butterfly Network, Inc. a digital health company transforming care through the power of portable ...

Time October 04, 2023
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Acquisition supports GE HealthCare’s $3 billion Ultrasound business by adding AI-enabled image guidance to ultrasound device portfolios
Feature | Ultrasound Imaging
GE HealthCare to Acquire Caption Health

February 10, 2023 — GE HealthCare, a leading global precision care innovator, announced that it has signed an agreement ...

Time February 10, 2023
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Clarius Mobile Health has introduced a third-generation product line of high-performance handheld wireless ultrasound scanners for all medical specialists.
News | Ultrasound Imaging
Clarius Disrupts Medical Ultrasound Market with 10 New Ultra-Portable Wireless Scanners for Apple and Android Devices

February 14, 2022 – Clarius Mobile Health has introduced a third-generation product line of high-performance handheld ...

Time February 14, 2022
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Caption Health's AI automated ejection fraction software.
News | Artificial Intelligence
Caption Health and Ultromics Partner to Wide Availability of AI-enabled Cardiac Ultrasound Tools

November 11, 2021 — Caption Health and Ultromics, developers of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve cardiac ...

Time November 11, 2021
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Cardiac coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) exam showing different views of the myocardium and the coronary arteries. This was scanned on a Canon Aquilion Prime CT scanner.
Feature | Cardiac Imaging
Trends in Cardiac Imaging Over Past Decade Show Rapid Rise in CT

October 6, 2021 – A new study published in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging on cardiac imaging trends over a decade ...

Time October 06, 2021
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The GE Healthcare Vsan Air wireless transducer point-of-care-ultrasound system will be used in combination with UltraSight artificial intelligence technology to monitor an astronaut's heart during Rakia space mission. The research will be used to determine the possible side effects of long-duration manned flights to Mars.
News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound
AI Enabled Wireless Cardiac Point-of-Care-Ultrasound Will be Used by Astronauts in Space

October 5, 2021 – UltraSight, a digital health company developing artificial intelligence (AI) enabled cardiac imaging ...

Time October 05, 2021
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A new study published in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging on cardiac imaging trends over a decade reports that the rate of coronary computed tomography angiography (cCTA) exams by radiologists in hospital outpatient departments increased markedly from 2010 to 2019, suggesting a bright future for the technology.
News | Cardiac Imaging
Study Analyzes a Decade of Cardiac Imaging Trends

September 28, 2021 — A new study published in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging on cardiac imaging trends over a decade ...

Time September 28, 2021
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Us2.ai, a Singapore-based medtech firm backed by Sequoia India and EDBI, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for Us2.v1, a completely automated AI decision support tool for cardiac ultrasound.
News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound
FDA Clears Fully Automated Cardiac Ultrasound Solution to Measure 2D and Doppler

September 14, 2021 – Us2.ai, a Singapore-based medtech firm backed by Sequoia India and EDBI, has received U.S. Food and ...

Time September 14, 2021
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Images, or a digital twin mitral valve of a patient, created from cardiac ultrasound that were used to perform a virtual surgical procedure to test how the intervention would impact the patient prior to actually performing the procedure. The right image shows color coding for sheer stresses on the valve leaflets before and after the virtual surgery. The left image shows the model quantitation of leaflet coaptation at peak systole prior to the the virtual surgery.
Feature | Ultrasound Imaging
Development of Computer Generated Virtual Hearts Using Echocardiography

Outside of medicine, computer-generated virtual twins of real machines like cars or airplanes have been used in ...

Time July 28, 2021
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Videos | Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS)
VIDEO: Examples of Lung B-lines and Cardiac Imaging on a Vscan Point of Care Ultrasound

Here are two quick clinical examples of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) lung imaging and cardiac imaging using a GE ...

Time April 01, 2021
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GE Healthcare introduced its artificial intelligence (AI) automation features on its Voluson Swift ultrasound platform at the 2020 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) virtual meeting. Features of this system include semi-automated contouring, auto identification of fetal anatomy and positioning on imaging. AI is seeing increasing integration in ultrasound systems from numerous vendors.
Feature | Ultrasound Imaging | By Dave Fornell, Editor
5 Key Trends in Ultrasound Systems

Recent advances in ultrasound image systems seen over the past year include the integration of artificial intelligence ...

Time March 04, 2021
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An example of cardiac ultrasound longitudinal strain measurements on the Epsilon EchoInsight software. This can be used to assess cardiotoxicity from chemotherapy agents. 
News | Cardio-oncology
Global Longitudinal Strain Echo Offers Early Detection of Cardiotoxicity Heart Damage From Chemotherapy

February 25, 2020 — Results of a multi-centre, international, clinical trial co-led by Peter Munk Cardiac Centre (PMCC) ...

Time February 25, 2021
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The Philips AAA Model integrates software and Philips 3-D ultrasound technologies into a single solution to automatically segment and quantify the size of the aneurysm sac for surveillance of known native and post-EVAR treated AAAs.
News | Ultrasound Imaging
Philips 3-D Ultrasound Offers New Surveillance Method for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

January 27, 2021 — Philips Healthcare has introduced the Philips Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Model, providing ...

Time January 27, 2021
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Myocarditis among recovering COVID-19 athletes less common than previously reported
News | Cardiac Imaging
Cardiac MRI Shows Lower Degrees of Myocarditis in Athletes Recovered from COVID-19

January 11, 2021 — In a letter published in the December issue of the American Heart Association's medical journal ...

Time January 11, 2021
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Ultromics will offer its artificial intelligence driven EchoGo Pro as a stress-echo module in the EchoGo suite alongside EchoGo Core, its AI solution for automated systolic function and strain analysis. The EchoGo suite is a cloud-based service that uses artificial intelligence to fully automate the pathway to diagnosis, providing near-instant reports for clinicians without any need for physical software on site. #AI #AIhealthcare #AIecho
News | Artificial Intelligence
FDA Clears Ultromics Echocardiography AI for Auto Identification of Coronary Artery Disease

January 6, 2021 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Ultromics' EchoGo Pro, an artificial ...

Time January 06, 2021
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