United Healthcare’s decision to require MRI accreditation after March 1, 2008, initiated a trend among payers that is likely to gain steam. It has also sent hospitals and freestanding imaging centers scrambling to secure MRI accreditation from the American College of Radiology, which has accredited over to 5,000 MRI units since beginning its MRI

As little as one extra MRI per day can generate more than an additional $200,000 in incremental revenue annually. But most imaging centers use crude scheduling systems that do not accurately present a center’s potential throughput. David A. Dierolf, director of performance improvement, Outpatient Imaging Affiliates (OIA), Nashville, Tenn, outlined

New guidelines from the American Cancer Society [1] recommending annual breast MRI for high-risk women are expected to result in significantly expanded demand for the study. Robert Smith, director for screening at the American Cancer Society, estimated that the new guidelines would add between 1 million and 2 million women a year to the number who

Torsten Kuwert, MD, of the University of Erlangen, details how new techniques in SPECT/CT are gaining wider acceptance in diagnosing and staging indeterminate bone lesions—in a single patient visit.

Ready to take PET scanning to the next level in its debut this month, high-definition PET (HD•PET) scans optimize image uniformity and enable visualization of smaller structures.

Molecular imaging is providing new insights into human physiology and disease. It provides more accurate diagnosis, cancer staging, restaging and treatment monitoring, and allows for highly accurate determinations of cardiac and brain function. Molecular imaging thus enables more appropriate and timely treatment decisions.

St. Vincent’s PET Center has provided PET/CT services since 2004. The center managed to turn a reasonable profit prior to the enactment of the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) in January 2007.

University of Michigan Health System finds answers to the shortcomings of conventional myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging of obese patients.