Though not the guideline-recommended route for treatment, select breast cancer patients could benefit greatly from MRI screenings designed to identify brain metastases, according to a research letter penned this month by Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center experts and published in JAMA Oncology.

Conventional MRI has a new use in the clinical setting, Canadian researchers wrote in Radiology this month: measuring lung ventilation abnormalities in free-breathing patients.

A Richardson, Texas, man was convicted by a federal jury Tuesday for his involvement in a scheme to impersonate multi-billion-dollar health tech company Cerner Corporation in a series of business deals that included a ploy to sell fraudulent MRI equipment.

Integrated PET/MR systems are showing promise when it comes to analyzing spatially and temporally co-registered multimodal and multiparametric 3D images, one physician wrote in Radiology this month—but the technique is nowhere near ready for prime time.

Most women with extremely dense breasts who decline the invitation to receive supplemental MRI after a negative mammogram do so because of “MRI-related inconveniences” or anxiety, according to a new study published by Clinical Radiology.

Nerves before an MRI are normal—up to 37 percent of patients report either moderate or high levels of anxiety leading up to an exam—and this apprehension can have physical consequences that render an entire scanning experience useless, first author J.R. Tugwell and colleagues wrote in Radiography this month.

Extracting radiomic features from MR images can help radiologists distinguish between benign breast lesions and luminal A breast cancers, according to a new study published by Academic Radiology.

The average price of an MRI in the United States is $1,119, higher than in any comparable countries, according to a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation. The report examined the availability, utilization and prices of a variety of health services in countries all over the world.