Philips Medical Systems has received Food and Drug Administration clearance to market its Sonos 7500 ultrasound system equipped with Live 3D Echo, a technique that allows cardiologists to obtain real-time, 3-D images of the beating heart.
With Live 3D Echo, cardiologists can view the heart instantaneously, visualizing it from different perspectives and looking at the correlation between valves, chambers, and vessels, according to Andover, MA-based Philips. The vendor is showing Live 3D Echo at next week's American Heart Association meeting in Chicago.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
November 15, 2002
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