Medical Imaging

Physicians utilize medical imaging to see inside the body to diagnose and treat patients. This includes computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-ray, ultrasound, fluoroscopy, angiography,  and the nuclear imaging modalities of PET and SPECT. 

Advances in genetics and medical imaging meet Richard III

Shakespeare called King Richard III a hunchback, but new genetic and reconstructive CT data show this story had more of a twist. Until recently, the exact nature and whereabouts of Richard's physical deformity was a mystery. While questions still daunt researchers, a compelling picture of the monarch's spine has emerged.

May 30, 2014

Biobank launches brain study

In this video, BBC reporter Fergus Walsh is the first to undergo an MRI scan as part of the largest scan study to date and describes how the study is evolving.

May 23, 2014

IBA Molecular awarded 3-year group purchasing agreement with Premier, Inc.

IBA Molecular North America, Inc. (IBA Molecular) announced the signing of a 3-year group purchasing agreement with Premier, Inc. (Premier), a leading health care improvement company, to offer PET radiopharmaceuticals, including 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), a diagnostic radiotracer used in oncology, neurology and cardiology, to Premier member imaging centers across the country.

May 23, 2014

Glass Brain shows 3D detail of brain connectivity

Watch a fly-through of Glass Brain, a 3D imagining of the human brain by researchers at the University of California San Francisco. This video shows the 3D brain model made possible by electroencephalography data and white matter tract reconstruction from MRI diffusion tensor imaging. UCSF is using the technology to research possible treatments for neurodegenerative disease.

May 16, 2014

Revisiting the human genome

The human genome was first mapped just a little over a decade ago. Its 3 billion bits of DNA are the pages of the human instruction manual. Read this great review featuring Eric S. Lander from MIT, Harvard, and the Broad Institute in Cambridge to see how far we've come and what the future of genomics holds.

May 15, 2014

Clarifying cancer with 3D modeling

The shape of cancer genomics may be a new calling card for 3D oncologic imaging. Studying the formation of cancer cell genomes could potentially provide more information about a patient's cancer than just focusing on genetic expression. Scientists at McGill University in Montreal are finding that the form of a cancer cell genome can even tell them what subtype of cancer a patient has.

May 15, 2014

ICD-10 or EHR: Which is a larger financial burden

In an article published in the ICD10 monitor, Shannon DeConda, the founder and president of the National Alliance of Medical Auditing Specialists, compares the financial burdens brought on by EHR and ICD-10. In preparation for the ICD-10 implementation, hospital systems and larger health care facilities have large budgets planned for 2015, and many have already invested a significant outlay of money in education and training to meet the fall 2014 deadline. There also is the risk that unpracticed ICD-10 coding skills could diminish over the next 18 months. 

May 13, 2014

Bristol Myers Squibb nabs iPierian in $175M buyout

Biopharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb now holds the power on a pipeline of neurodegenerative disease therapies after buying San Francisco-based iPierian for $175 million.

May 2, 2014