Physicians who own or lease MRI equipment are more likely than those who do not have such equipment in-house to perform scans on patients with low back pain, according to a study performed at Stanford University. Results of the study, published online yesterday in Health Services Research, also indicated that patients whose orthopedists perform MRI

Access to clinical history is of utmost importance to the radiologists of The Children’s Hospital in Denver, Colorado. Because the hospital’s main campus and five satellite sites generate around 130,000 pediatric images a year, it’s critical for radiologists to be able to access a patient’s indications and background quickly, while maintaining the

Executing a partial substitution of ultrasound for CT in evaluating appendicitis could slash U.S. healthcare system expenditures by more than $1 billion, according to research conducted at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and presented at last week’s American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) annual meeting.

MRI is no more cost-effective than standard risk stratification techniques in determining whether newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients will benefit from aggressive treatment is no more cost-effective than standard risk stratification techniques, according to researchers at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn.

Toshiba America Medical Systems introduced several enhancements to its cardiac and shared ultrasound systems at this week’s American College of Cardiology (ACC) annual meeting in New Orleans.

The compact ultrasound market outpaced the overall ultrasound market in 2010, rising by 21% from the prior year to reach $276 million in the U.S., reveals research released recently by analyst Harvey Klein, Ph.D., of Klein Biomedical Consultants, Inc., New York City, N.Y.

SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) is a well-validated noninvasive test to determine if coronary artery disease (CAD) is the cause of a patients chest pain. While SPECT will continue to play a role in this patient population, other tests are helping to fill in the gaps in identifying those at risk of cardiac events.

This issue provides updates on several important applications of molecular imaging. The cover story presents novel ideas to better identify patients who are at risk for or have coronary artery disease.