Tag: interventional
GE HealthCare introduces solution to expand interventional CT access
GE HealthCare is further advancing its precision care strategy with CT-Navigation, which offers clinicians detailed, real-time, 3D computed tomography (CT) images for stereotactic needle...
Texray protection equipment shows promise for reducing radiation
According to a press release, Texray radiation protection equipment reduces radiation dose by up to 97% during clinical interventions. This was the main concluding...
Enabling global provision of image-guided procedures “crucial” to improving health equity
Janice Newsome (Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, USA), tells Interventional News that she considers herself “a little bit of a global citizen”. “As interventional radiologists,...
Canon Medical’s new high-definition imaging detector provides the “highest resolution” in...
Canon Medical Systems is introducing an all-new size for its high-definition flat panel detector for vascular and interventional radiology (IR) procedures, a press release from the company reports. Canon Medical claims that...
Using the transradial approach in visceral embolization has huge benefits for...
Christoph Binkert (Kantonsspital, Winterthur, Switzerland) tells Interventional News at CIRSE 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal, that the transradial approach is rapidly gaining momentum in Europe...
Embolization for trauma should be performed only by highly trained and...
Robert Morgan, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, discusses the role of interventional radiologists (IRs) in trauma embolization; and whether other...
New augmented reality system lets IRs “literally see through the patient”
European Radiology Experimental has recently published a study on a new augmented reality system that is able to accurately guide interventional oncology procedures. A three-step...
ECR 2018: Will immunotherapy revolutionise cancer care?
Evasion of the immune system is an important mechanism in the development and progression of cancers. Cancer immunotherapies are a promising class of therapeutic...
Mark Breedlove and DJ Sirota to lead new Cook Medical business...
Cook Medical has announced the leaders of its two new business divisions. Mark Breedlove has been named vice president of Cook’s Vascular division and...
OsteoCool RF ablation system gets expanded indication for palliative treatment of...
Medtronic has announced that the US FDA has cleared an expanded indication for the OsteoCool radiofrequency (RF) ablation system.
Originally cleared for use in the...
Argon sells critical care platform to Merit
Argon has announced that it has completed the sale of its Critical Care Unit including a manufacturing facility in Yishun, Singapore and related commercial...
