Performing coronary CT angiography (CCTA) in addition to standard care is associated with a lower risk of death from coronary artery disease than standard care alone, according to research published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The third Nikon Imaging Center in the U.S. for collaborative microscopy imaging opened at the University of California, San Diego on Thursday, Sept. 13, according to a university press release. The center houses more than $2.5 million in imaging equipment, allowing researchers to work to develop new education programs.

A National Health Service physicist has developed a new virtual reality (VR) app that could help ease anxiety and fear for pediatric patients undergoing MRI, according to a report published Sept. 13 by The Guardian.

Cardiac specialists may be able to better identify scarred heart tissue and perform cardiac ablation in arrhythmia patients with a newly developed 3D imaging system based on cardiac MRI, according to research published Sept. 3 in Nature Biomedical Engineering.

A new mathematical pattern developed by Shekhar Chandra, PhD, from the University of Queensland in Australia, could make MRI scans four times faster, according to a university release from Sept. 11.

The special report was created by a group of international researchers, gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA) manufacturers and representatives of the FDA at a workshop co-sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and the American College of Radiology (ACR) in February.  

Millimeter wave body scanners—standard security measures at airports, train stations and public buildings since the 2000s—are completely safe for heart patients with implantable devices, German researchers reported at last month’s ESC Congress.

The first FDA-approved MRI system in the U.S. to provide medical imaging for newborns in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) was recently installed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, NBC 10 reported on Sept. 8.