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. 

SPECT/CT Takes Myocardial Perfusion Imaging to the Next Level

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

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.

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