Radiologists use diagnostic imaging to non-invasively look inside the body to help determine the causes of an injury or an illness, and confirm a diagnosis. Providers use many imaging modalities to do so, including CT, MRI, X-ray, Ultrasound, PET and more.
Freestanding EDs demonstrated meaningful operational advantages over hospitals when using an accelerated troponin pathway. This included earlier discharges for low-risk chest pain patients.
On-the-field imaging helps determine if athletes can be treated effectively on-site or whether they might need to be transferred to a medical center for additional care.
The $3.8 million grant spans five years and will focus on cerebrovascular abnormalities by using a specialized imaging technique, the university announced this week.
Using radiomic features from chest CT images could be more beneficial than standard pulmonary function tests at diagnosis and severity staging of COPD, doctors suggested in Academic Radiology.
Ultrasounds of fetuses who later developed ASD displayed three times more anatomical anomalies than the general population control group, according to research in Brain.
Reactive axillary lymph nodes seen on screening mammograms after vaccination can last for many months and should not be cause for imaging delays, experts reported in Radiology.
Higher elasticity ratios discovered using SWE were an independent predictor of insufficient rotator cuff repairs, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.
With demand for such exams forecasted to increase alongside an aging population, rads and speech language pathologists do agree that standardization is needed.