Ultrasound

Ultrasound, also referred to as sonography or diagnostic ultrasound, uses high-frequency sound waves to visualize soft tissue. Ultrasounds are frequently ordered to measure fetal anatomy during pregnancy, check for blood clots and to guide needle biopsy procedures of the breast, abdomen and pelvis. The imaging modality does not use any radiation to create images. Find news specific to cardiac ultrasound (echocardiography).

FDA clears catheter-based 4D visualization platform for complex heart procedures
The new technology from LUMA Vision allows operators to deliver 2D and 4D ultrasound images in real time. The advanced catheter was built with maneuverability and increased visibility in mind.
FDA clears AI-powered echocardiography software
HeartFocus guides users through the entire process, making it so that even novices can deliver high-quality echocardiograms every time.
Right heart cardiac ultrasound contrast agent for shunts enters U.S. trial
Currently there are no FDA cleared echocardiography contrast agents commercially available for use on the right side of the heart to detect shunts, but a new agent that promises to improve workflow and imaging is about to enter a U.S. trial.
GE HealthCare launches new AI-enabled automated breast ultrasound system
Ivenia ABUS Premium was designed to help streamline the supplemental breast ultrasound workloads and enhance diagnoses by improving ease of use and image reproducibility.
ASE updates recommendations for assessing right heart function in patients with pulmonary hypertension
The new guidelines were designed to ensure sonographers and other members of the heart team have the information they need to screen patients when appropriate and identify early warnings signs of PH.

Cardiac ultrasound study tags nearly 67% of COVID-19 patients with structural heart abnormalities

Many of those individuals had a myocardial injury, increasing their risk for heart attack, pulmonary embolism and heart failure.

GE Healthcare books ‘largest ever’ ultrasound order for $11M with Pennsylvania provider

Twelve-hospital St. Luke’s University Health Network plans to implement the Chicago-based company’s US and IT workflow solutions across its entire system.

Philips sees diagnostic sales slide 3%, including declines in ultrasound, MRI orders

The Amsterdam-based giant pinned the downturn on the postponement of radiology system installations and elective procedures.

Ultrasound technique offers cheaper alternative to CT for quantifying lung health assessments

The method could also be delivered by nonradiologist personnel with minimal training, noted experts from two North Carolina institutions.

Distinguished Philadelphia radiologist and ultrasound expert Harvey Nisenbaum dies

His contributions to the specialty were numerous over the past 40-plus years, serving on 140 committees as a member of 15 different professional societies.

Radiology leader Johns Hopkins notches $13.5M grant to develop implantable ultrasound imaging devices

Funding comes by way of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and will be used to create high-resolution US tech to monitor traumatic spinal cord injuries.

Radiology must change the payment paradigm for point-of-care ultrasound, experts charge

Scientists with the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound and the ACR are proposing a framework that would position POCUS as a completely different type of evaluation from DXUS.

Enhanced ultrasound bests CT, MR for diagnosing some liver cancers

CEUS helps physicians diagnose some forms of liver cancer more safely and less expensively than CT and MRI, according to a report published in Hepatoma Research.

Ultrasound

FDA clears catheter-based 4D visualization platform for complex heart procedures

FDA clears AI-powered echocardiography software

Right heart cardiac ultrasound contrast agent for shunts enters U.S. trial

GE HealthCare launches new AI-enabled automated breast ultrasound system

ASE updates recommendations for assessing right heart function in patients with pulmonary hypertension