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 cardiac MRI process can improve results, ease restrictions on patients

A team of researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles have developed a new method for cardiac MRI that can be complete in just 90 seconds. The technique also allows patients to breathe during testing, with promises of more accurate, more reliable results.

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How a Michigan practice cut its MRI wait times from 101 days to 5

As radiology practices grapple with the specialist shortages and drawn-out wait times that accompany a nationwide push for more specialized MRI, one Michigan practice is successfully solving both problems.

Study finds brain continues to produce new cells into old age, contradicting recent findings

Columbia University researchers recently found that the human brain continues to produce hundreds of new neurons every day, even into old age, according to an article by the Los Angeles Times.

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Offshoot of digital mammography could provide alternative to breast MRI

An adaptation of digital mammography could cut image acquisition times and provide a new screening method to patients unable to undergo breast MRI, but added time commitments could make the technique difficult to implement in clinical practice, a case study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology suggests.

Largest international epilepsy study may help improve prognosis, treatment

More than 3,800 volunteers around the world participated in the largest international survey on epilepsy using neuroimaging techniques, according to an April 5 press release from the São Paulo Research Foundation in Brazil.

NJ medical center now offers x-ray-guided chemotherapy procedure

Hackensack Meridian Health Bayshore Medical Center in New Jersey expanded its services to offer transcatheter arterial chemoembolization, also called transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), according to a release from the medical center.

The case for modernizing biodistribution reporting in nuclear medicine

Radiopharmaceutical dosimetry (RD) is an integral part of nuclear imaging and therapy, but current standards for documenting and reporting compound travel patterns inside the human body—biodistribution—in dosimetry-related studies do not exist.

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Increased background parenchymal enhancement on screening MRI associated with higher risk of breast cancer

High-risk patients with any amount of background parenchymal enhancement (BPE) beyond the minimum on screening MRI have an increased risk of developing breast cancer, according to a new study published by Academic Radiology.