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. 

Can a CT-based quantification method evaluate chronic liver disease?

Quantifying liver surface nodularity (LSN) from CT scans can accurately and quickly identify clinically significant portal hypertension in cirrhosis patients, according to a Radiology study.

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MRI shows how music alters brain activity in beatboxers, guitarists

Scientists from University College London used MRI to show how music can change our brain, finding neural activity in guitarists, beatboxers and non-musicians differed when listening to various sounds.

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Should ultrasound be used with mammography when screening for breast cancer?

Pauline Reedy believes her breast cancer was detected one to two years earlier thanks to an ultrasound that was conducted in addition to a mammogram because of the 71-year-old's dense breast tissue.

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Lung cancer screening model uses personalized data to improve predictive value

Researchers found that incorporating lung nodule features and patient-specific characteristics improved the positive predictive ability of a cancer screening model while maintaining low-dose CT scan sensitivity, according to research published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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Brain scan distinguishes between bipolar disorder, depression

Functional MRI (fMRI) may be the key to identifying specific neurons in the brain that are central to distinguishing bipolar disorder from depression, reported researchers in a recent Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging study.

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fMRI reveals cannabis extract may help patients with psychosis

Patients with psychosis may benefit from therapeutic effects found to be derived from cannabidiol (CBD), a naturally occurring constituent of cannabis, according to research published Aug. 29 in JAMA Psychiatry.

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Q&A: NYU’s Daniel Sodickson on AI, Facebook and the importance of making MRI scans faster

The NYU School of Medicine’s department of radiology and Facebook recently announced a new collaborative research project focused on using artificial intelligence (AI) to make MRI scans up to 10 times faster.

MRI-defined EMVI can accurately determine recurrence, mortality in rectal cancer patients

Extramural venous invasion (EMVI) can be reliably evaluated with MRI in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy–radiation therapy followed by surgery, according to new research published in Radiology.