Originally Published MDDI August 2005
Cardiovascular Trends
Imaging
Medical imaging has seen radical improvements in recent years, and the cardiovascular field has benefited as much as any other.
Advances in computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and other imaging technologies have allowed clinicians an ever-clearer picture of what’s really going on in a patient’s cardiovascular system. Some of the next wave of improvements involve digital image management.
The newest entries in that field can read all imaging technologies meeting the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard. These include ultrasound, intravascular ultrasound, native ultrasound, nuclear, angiography, MRI, CT, and x-ray. “An advanced system should be able to read from all kinds of image files and be able to translate to DICOM on the fly,” says Chris Walker, president of Cardio-Vascular Sales (Aliso Viejo, CA). “That eliminates the need to spend $25,000 to make a machine ready. It also enables you to do strain-rate analysis.”
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