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. 

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Yale School of Medicine, tech company collaborate to create portable MRI

The Ivy League institution is now trying out the transportable tool in the neuro intensive care unit of Yale New Haven Hospital.

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Children’s National Hospital using sophisticated MRI to track impact of opioids on infant brains

The District of Columbia-based provider joins several other institutions as part of the NIH’s massive Helping to End Addiction Long-Term Initiative. 

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Take a break? fMRI shows videogaming fatigues brain area associated with attention span

Playing videogames during breaktimes reduces activation in the brain’s supplementary motor area, and the falloff shows up in findings on fMRI and as poorer functional performance in short-term memory tests when people get back to work.

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CDC offers imaging guidance on vaping-related lung injuries

The CDC released interim guidance for clinicians to help with the evaluation and management of e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury, or EVALI.

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UCSF recruits NVIDIA to study AI in radiology

The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) is developing a new center dedicated to applying AI to the field of radiology and improving patient outcomes.

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AI could alter images, trick radiologists into misdiagnosing cancer patients

Machine learning (ML) algorithms could potentially be trained to alter mammography findings, tricking radiologists into make an incorrect diagnosis, according to new research published in the European Journal of Radiology.

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Why women are skipping their follow-up breast cancer MRI

Women initially deemed to have a less than 2% chance of developing breast cancer often skip the recommended follow-up MRI six months later. Johns Hopkins researchers are attempting to understand why, and recently published some early insights into the issue.

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NIH awards $20M grant to develop PET radiotracers for diagnosing Parkinson’s

“At the end of five years, we hope to have a radioactive tracer that will be able to detect Parkinson’s early on and provide detailed information about the disease’s progression, which is critical for discovering and testing new treatments," said Robert H. Mach, PhD, a researcher involved in the project.