Niche MRI developer Magna-Lab resurfaced at this week's American College of Cardiology meeting, where the company presented research it is working on to develop a catheter for MRI scans of the coronary arteries.
Magna-Lab is working with the Zena & Michael A. Weiner Cardiovascular Institute of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City to detect coronary artery disease using MRI. Several papers and posters on the collaboration were presented at the ACC conference, according to the Edgewood, NY, company.
Magna-Lab products under development include a minimally invasive MRI catheter, as well as a transesophageal MRI probe for use in imaging the coronary arteries, aorta, and great vessels.
Magna-Lab developed a 0.3-tesla niche MRI scanner, called Magna-SL, that it tried to market in the mid-1990s. The company ran out of cash, however, and restructured down to a skeleton staff. Developing cardiac MRI products is a key part of the firm's recovery plan.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writersMarch 17, 2000
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