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.

Pediatric CT neuroimaging has not decreased in the last decade despite ongoing efforts to identify children with traumatic brain injury (TBI) who should avoid scans, according to research published in the September issue of Pediatrics.

A machine learning platform accurately predicted mortality in patients with heart disease, outperforming models created by medical experts, according to an Aug. 31 study in PLOS One.

Combining ultrasound elastography and echogenicity analysis may better distinguish between plaques in patients with symptomatic internal carotid artery (ICA) stenosis than in those without symptoms, according to an Aug. 30 study in the American Journal of Roentgenology.