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. 

PET/CT in Evolution

PET/CT technology has brought more accurate cancer staging and a drop in scan time to 15 minutes to Karolinska University Hospital/Institute in Stockholm.

Software Fine-tunes Longitudinal Imaging of Cancer

The ease of using one software program to evaluate images from different time points is key to more accurate cancer staging at PET/CT-Zentrum Hamburg in Germany.

SPECT/CT Makes the Grade at the Community Hospital

Crouse Hospital in Syracuse, N.Y., is a 566-bed, acute-care community hospital committed to superior patient care. Its commitment to the community is paralleled by a strong collaborative relationship between its radiology and nuclear medicine departments. 

Q & A with Daniel D. Maki, MD: A Very Good Month for Breast MRI

March initiated what could be a sea change in the diagnosis of breast cancer in high-risk women, with results of a breast MR study published in the New England Journal of Medicine and, in the same week, new guidelines issued from the American Cancer Society (ACS) that recommended breast MR as a screening tool for high-risk women.

Be Mindful of the Stark Law in CCTA Alliances

Numerous radiology groups are currently discussing arrangements whereby cardiologists and the radiologists would essentially split the responsibilities for reading coronary CT angiography (CCTA) studies. Most commonly, as proposed, the cardiologists would read and generate a signed interpretation report, but limited to the cardiac portion of the