When conducted inside imaging suites soon to open, simulation exercises can help identify potentially serious threats to patient safety that may not have been carefully considered when the spaces were designed.

“Current reimbursement contributes to inequity because locating new technology in facilities that serve patients with public insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, is not economically sustainable," authors of a new paper in Radiology suggested.

The research revealed that 7.7% of patients screened for pancreatic cancer had their tumors missed on initial imaging exams but were diagnosed with cancer between three and 18 months later.  

The addition of computer-aided diagnostic generated MRI series could help radiologists identify clinically significant prostate cancer more frequently. 

John Carroll, MD, director of interventional cardiology and professor of medicine at the University of Colorado, explains the state of  transcatheter closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO) to prevent stroke.

In the U.K., two instances of evidently inept work by radiologists are inadvertently spotlighting the value of subspecialized image interpretation in socially sensitive patient cases.

A global tech and pharma supplier that introduced a generic equivalent to GE Healthcare’s Visipaque during the height of the 2022 contrast shortage has begun offering a substitute for Guerbet’s Dotarem.

These new findings could help providers differentiate and manage CP associated with different levels of motor impairment, authors of the study indicated.