![]() ViosWorks* can help physicians distinguish scarred or damaged tissue from healthy heart muscle and tell them whether blood is flowing through the heart the way it should be. RSNA is the world's largest gathering of radiologists, drawing an expected 60,000 visitors. GE Healthcare and Arterys brought the technology to this year's meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), which is taking place this week in Chicago. It displays the results in 7 dimensions - 3 in space, 1 in time, and 3 in velocity direction - showing the actual blood flow in the heart as a moving image. Their technology, ViosWorks* can do the job in 10 to 15 minutes, rather than the more typical 45 minutes to an hour. The partnership was announced at this year’s RSNA conference. GE Healthcare and Arterys, a privately held company specializing in cloud based intelligent medical imaging, have been quietly working in partnership together to deliver an end-to-end solution that radically changes how the heart is imaged by MRI and then analyzed automatically in the cloud. “Cardiovascular disease isn’t just a European issue, it’s a human issue,” says Brau, director of global cardiac magnetic resonance at GE Healthcare. The grim statistics is what keep scientists like Anja Brau motivated. The World Health Organization reported earlier this year that more people die from cardiovascular disease than from any other cause. ![]() The picture elsewhere isn’t much different. By the time you’re done reading this story, heart disease will have killed nearly 40 people in Europe.
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