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Medical Imaging
 
The definition of imaging is the visual representation of an object. Medical imaging began after the discovery of x-rays by Konrad Roentgen 1896. The first fifty years of radiological imaging, pictures have been created by focusing x-rays on the examined body part and direct depiction onto a single piece of film inside a special cassette. The next development involved the use of fluorescent screens and special glasses to see x-ray images in real time.
A major development was the application of contrast agents for a better image contrast and organ visualization. In the 1950s, first nuclear medicine studies showed the up-take of very low-level radioactive chemicals in organs, using special gamma cameras. This medical imaging technology allows information of biologic processes in vivo. Today, PET and SPECT play an important role in both clinical research and diagnosis of biochemical and physiologic processes. In 1955, the first x-ray image intensifier allowed the pick up and display of x-ray movies.
In the 1960s, the principals of sonar were applied to diagnostic imaging. Ultrasonic waves generated by a quartz crystal are reflected at the interfaces between different tissues, received by the ultrasound machine, and turned into pictures with the use of computers and reconstruction software. Ultrasound imaging is an important diagnostic tool, and there are great opportunities for its further development. Looking into the future, the grand challenges include targeted contrast agents, real-time 3D ultrasound imaging, and molecular imaging.
Digital imaging techniques were implemented in the 1970s into conventional fluoroscopic image intensifier and by Godfrey Hounsfield with the first computed tomography. Digital images are electronic snapshots sampled and mapped as a grid of dots or pixels. The introduction of x-ray CT revolutionised medical imaging with cross sectional images of the human body and high contrast between different types of soft tissue. These developments were made possible by analog to digital converters and computers. The multislice spiral CT technology has expands the clinical applications dramatically.
The first MRI devices were tested on clinical patients in 1980. The spread of CT machines is the spur to the rapid development of MRI imaging and the introduction of tomographic imaging techniques into diagnostic nuclear medicine. With technological improvements including higher field strength, more open MRI magnets, faster gradient systems, and novel data-acquisition techniques, MRI is a real-time interactive imaging modality that provides both detailed structural and functional information of the body.
Today, imaging in medicine has advanced to a stage that was inconceivable 100 years ago, with growing medical imaging modalities:
Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
Positron emission tomography (PET)

All this type of scans are an integral part of modern healthcare. Because of the rapid development of digital imaging modalities, the increasing need for an efficient management leads to the widening of radiology information systems (RIS) and archival of images in digital form in picture archiving and communication systems (PACS). In telemedicine, healthcare professionals are linked over a computer network. Using cutting-edge computing and communications technologies, in videoconferences, where audio and visual images are transmitted in real time, medical images of MRI scans, x-ray examinations, CT scans and other pictures are shareable.
See also Hybrid Imaging.

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Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc.
 
www.radiopharm.com Lantheus Medical Imaging is a worldwide leader in medical imaging, with headquarters in North Billerica, Massachusetts, and nearly 700 employees worldwide with offices in Puerto Rico, Canada, and Australia.
The product portfolio includes ABLAVAR™ (gadofosveset trisodium) a blood pool contrast agent for magnetic resonance angiography MRA, Cardiolite® (Kit for the preparation of Technetium Tc99m Sestamibi), a cardiac perfusion imaging agent and DEFINITY® Vial for (Perflutren Lipid Microsphere) injectable suspension, the leading cardiac ultrasound contrast agent in the US.

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Lantheus Medical Imaging
Bldg. 200-2, 331 Treble Cove Rd.
N. Billerica, MA 01862
USA
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+1-800-362-2668
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+1-978-436-7501
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ABLAVARâ„¢InfoSheet: - Contrast Agents - 
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ABLAVAR™ (formerly named Vasovistâ„¢) is a blood pool agent for magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), which opens new medical imaging possibilities in the evaluation of aortoiliac occlusive disease (AIOD) in patients with suspected peripheral vascular disease.
ABLAVARâ„¢ binds reversibly to blood albumin, providing imaging with high spatial resolution up to 1 hour after injection, due to its high relaxivity and to the long lasting increased signal intensity of blood.
As with other contrast media: the possibility of serious or life-threatening anaphylactic or anaphylactoid reactions, including cardiovascular, respiratory and/or cutaneous manifestations, should always be considered.

WARNING:
NEPHROGENIC SYSTEMIC FIBROSIS
Gadolinium-based contrast agents increase the risk for nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) in patients with acute or chronic severe renal insufficiency (glomerular filtration rate less than 30 mL/min/1.73m2), or acute renal insufficiency of any severity due to the hepato-renal syndrome or in the perioperative liver transplantation period.

See also Cardiovascular Imaging, Adverse Reaction, Molecular Imaging, and MRI Safety.
Drug Information and Specification
NAME OF COMPOUND
Diphenylcyclohexyl phosphodiester-Gd-DTPA, gadofosveset trisodium, MS-325
CENTRAL MOIETY
Gd2+
CONTRAST EFFECT
T1, predominantly positive enhancement
20-45 mmol-1sec-1, Bo=0,47T
PHARMACOKINETIC
Intravascular
825 mOsmol/kg H2O
CONCENTRATION
244 mg/mL, 0.25mmol/mL
DOSAGE
0.12 mL/kg, 0.03 mmol/kg
PREPARATION
ready to use
DEVELOPMENT STAGE
FDA approved
DISTRIBUTOR
See below
PRESENTATION
10 mL vials
DO NOT RELY ON THE INFORMATION PROVIDED HERE, THEY ARE
NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE ACCOMPANYING PACKAGE INSERT!
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Vasovistâ„¢InfoSheet: - Contrast Agents - 
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Vasovistâ„¢ is an albumin-targeted intravascular contrast agent. It is indicated for contrast enhanced MR angiography (CE-MRA) for the visualization of abdominal or limb vessels in patients with suspected or known vascular disease. After IV injection, Vasovistâ„¢ binds reversibly to human albumin in plasma, which results in long-lasting increased relaxivity. Imaging from 5 to 50 min is possible. A small unbound portion is, by glomerular filtration, eliminated by the kidneys.
AngioMARK® was the formerly trade name and MS-325 the research name. Currently the phase III clinical trials are completed to determine its efficacy for peripheral vascular disease and coronary artery disease.
In the U.S., EPIX received an approvable letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Vasovistâ„¢ in January 2005. In 2009, Epix Pharmaceuticals has sold the U.S., Canadian and Australian rights for its blood pool agent (now named ABLAVARâ„¢), to Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc..

WARNING: NEPHROGENIC SYSTEMIC FIBROSIS Gadolinium-based contrast agents increase the risk for nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) in patients with acute or chronic severe renal insufficiency (glomerular filtration rate less than 30 mL/min/1.73m2), or acute renal insufficiency of any severity due to the hepato-renal syndrome or the liver transplantation period.

See also MRI Safety.
Drug Information and Specification
NAME OF COMPOUND
Diphenylcyclohexyl phosphodiester-Gd-DTPA, gadofosveset trisodium, MS-325
CENTRAL MOIETY
Gd2+
CONTRAST EFFECT
T1, predominantly positive enhancement
20-45 mmol-1sec-1, Bo=0,47T
PHARMACOKINETIC
Intravascular, short elimination half life
825 mOsmol/kg H2O
CONCENTRATION
244 mg/mL, 0.25mmol/mL
DOSAGE
0.12 mL/kg, 0.03 mmol/kg
PREPARATION
ready to use
DEVELOPMENT STAGE
approved
DISTRIBUTOR
See below
PRESENTATION
10 mL vials
DO NOT RELY ON THE INFORMATION PROVIDED HERE, THEY ARE
NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE ACCOMPANYING PACKAGE INSERT!
Distribution Information
TERRITORY
TRADE NAME
DEVELOPMENT
STAGE
DISTRIBUTOR
EU
Vasovistâ„¢
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North America, Australia
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EPIX Medical's new multimedia Web site features AngioMARK images in 3D
Friday, 5 March 1999
MRI technology combined with contrast agent optimizes diagnosis of cardiovascular disease
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www.bdi.bracco.com The company is a member of the Bracco Group, a highly innovative healthcare group and world leader in global integrated solutions for the diagnostic medical imaging field. The Bracco Group is headquartered in Milan, Italy. Its North American operations consist of Bracco Diagnostics and Bracco Research USA, both located in Princeton, New Jersey. Bracco Diagnostics is one of the fastest growing developers and marketers of diagnostic pharmaceuticals in North America, with products for various imaging applications, including Isovue® (iopamidol - X-ray contrast agent), ProHance® (gadoteridol - MRI contrast agent), SonoVue® (ultrasound contrast agent) and nuclear medicine products.
Gadoteridol has been available in Europe and the USA for several years. Holder of the Marketing Authorization: Bracco International B.V. - Strawinskylaan 3051 - 1077 ZX Amsterdam The Netherlands. (Contact: Kirk Deeter, Phone: +NL-303-838-8708)

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