Eric Williamson, MD, president of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) and professor of radiology at Mayo Clinic, explains how the iodine contrast shortage is causing issues for cardiac CT imaging and ways this can be mitigated.

Iodinated contrast is most widely used in patients undergoing CT studies for, in descending order, abdominopelvic, chest, head/neck and brain indications.

The company says the approval for ablations will allow interventional radiologists to perform these operations with nonlinear steering that facilitates high accuracy and average skin-to-target times under nine minutes.

Authors of the study noted that using the algorithm eliminates the issue of subjectivity and time-consuming visual assessments of emphysema.

Another teaching hospital has quickly and safely reduced its reliance on iodinated contrast media (ICM) by around 50% and taken to the pages of JACR to tell how they did it.

“We need to commit to changing the supply chain so that a single event in a faraway country does not put us in this predicament again," experts wrote in a new special report shared by Radiology.

Researchers at a quaternary academic medical center have developed a short-term workaround that they report is now reducing the institution’s consumption of Omnipaque (iohexol) by more than 50% without compromising care quality.

The COVID lockdowns at the Shanghai plant began on March 31, and although the plant there has since resumed operations, they are not yet at 100% capacity.