Heart attack and other life-threatening cardiovascular events can be predicted with CT-based measures of calcification in the abdominal aorta and could be a more accurate predictive model than the widely known Framingham risk score, according to research published Oct. 2 in Radiology.

SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) and deep learning have proven to be a powerful pair in predicting obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) and improving the interpretation of upright and supine images, according to research published Sept. 27 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

As imaging scans before widely more available and affordable, more Americans are getting more tests than they used to—currently totaling to more than 85 million CT scans each year, according to an article published Oct. 1 by The Washington Post. But how much is too much radiation?

A new protocol—HEART Pathway—can identify low-risk emergency department patients with chest pain who can be discharged without stress testing or angiography, according to results of a Sept. 28 study published in Circulation.

Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)-guided stent implantation produced better clinical outcomes for heart patients compared to a conventional angiography-guided method, said researchers this week at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting in San Diego, California.

With additional testing for nonobstructive coronary artery disease (CAD), researchers effectively diagnosed microvascular and/or vasospastic angina—as well as non-cardiac related chest pain—and used that information to guide therapy decisions and significantly improve angina and quality-of-life outcomes.

INSIGHTEC®,a global medical technology innovator of incisionless surgery, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Exablate Neuro™ compatibility for the state-of-the-art MRI Scanners Magnetom Skyra, Prisma and Prisma[fit] from Siemens Healthineers to treat patients with essential tremor (ET).

Radiology staff at VCU Medical Center, the comprehensive care center of VCU Health located in downtown Richmond, Virginia, perform approximately 160,000 imaging procedures a year with six CARESTREAM DRX-Evolution Systems, nine CARESTREAM DRX-Revolution Mobile X-ray Systems, and three room-based imaging systems that have been converted to DR with CARESTREAM DRX-1 in-room retrofits and the company’s DRX detectors.