Medical Imaging

Physicians utilize medical imaging to see inside the body to diagnose and treat patients. This includes computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-ray, ultrasound, fluoroscopy, angiography,  and the nuclear imaging modalities of PET and SPECT. 

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New museum puts x-ray artwork on display

Artwork made out of x-ray mages is now on display at Process Gallery in Kent, a new museum located in southern England.

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New Zealand-based promoter mandates pre-fight MRIs for all its boxers

Just weeks after charity fighter Kain Parsons was fatally injured in a Christchurch, New Zealand, boxing ring, sports promoter Duco Events has announced it’s implementing obligatory pre-fight MRIs for all of its boxers.

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NYU, Facebook release massive MRI dataset as part of ongoing AI project

The New York University (NYU) School of Medicine's department of radiology is releasing a knee MRI dataset of more than 1.5 million anonymous images as part of its ongoing collaboration with Facebook to make MRI scans 10 times faster with artificial intelligence (AI).

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Chest x-ray algorithm much faster than experienced radiologists, but not always better

Stanford University researchers have produced a convolutional neural network capable of finding most of 14 different disease states—nearly everything from pneumonia to lung cancer—on chest x-rays.

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Brain MRI scans can help predict dementia

A team of researchers used MRI brain scans to predict which patients would develop dementia within three years and were nearly 90 percent accurate, according to a small study presented at RSNA 2018 in Chicago.

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Are radiology trainees adequately educated on imaging appropriateness, safety?

“Selection of appropriate diagnostic imaging examinations is a critical step in the diagnostic pathway, however, trainees demonstrate widely variable knowledge of appropriate imaging, particularly pertaining to imaging pregnant patients,” Thaddeus D. Hollingsworth, MD, and colleagues wrote, in a recent study.

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Screening mammography should continue after age 75

New research presented at RSNA 2018 in Chicago suggested women 75 years and older should continue to get annual screening mammograms due to the high incidence of breast cancer found in this population.

MRI scans using diffusion tensor imaging can predict Alzheimer's disease

MRI scans using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) show potential for predicting if a patient will develop Alzheimer’s disease later in life, according to findings to be presented at RSNA 2018 in Chicago.