Non-radiologist physicians have contributed to the widespread use of point-of-care (POC) ultrasound, but radiologists remain the primary users, according to a study in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

The rate of death from lung cancer is not lowered by annual chest x-ray screening compared with usual care, reveals a study of published in the online edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association and slated to appear in the November 2 print edition.

MRI safety was the topic of a two-day public workshop held earlier this week by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on its White Oak campus in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Independent nuclear laboratories are under a mandate to achieve accreditation by Jan. 1, 2012, to continue receiving Medicare reimbursement. While maneuvering the varied accreditation processes requires practice management savvycausing some practices to prolong the processthe impending deadline is approaching fast.

Reston Radiology Consultants (Ashburn, Virginia) is a hospital-based imaging practice in business for over twenty years that includes several outpatient centers, including MRI of Reston, where four systems carry an imaging load that reaches a combined average of 24,000 studies annually. This suggests a fair amount of volume seen at that lone

GE Healthcare has received FDA clearance of the Discovery* MR750w wide bore 3.0 Tesla MR system with GEM (Geometry Embracing Method) Suite of Coils.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has received a citizen petition from the International Contrast Ultrasound Society (ICUS), requesting that the agency remove black box warnings on ultrasound contrast agents.

Diffusion-weighted MRI may be a better determinant than PET-CT of whether lung lesions are cancerous or benign, according to a study conducted by Belgian researchers and presented yesterday at the European Respiratory Society’s Annual Congress in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The modality could then be used to prevent unnecessary surgery by enabling