Lung ultrasound can help reduce exposure to staff and patients, and offers important clinical advantages over chest radiography and computed tomography.

Mount Sinai researchers found that those with overall higher chest x-ray scores were 6.2 times more likely to require hospitalization.

Radiologists who come upon certain unanticipated findings in the lower lungs should alert the referring physician to possible COVID-19 infection.

Radiology findings are vital aids in the fight against COVID-19, and imaging is all but essential for elderly patients.

Abnormalities were most commonly seen in sicker patients with the virus who were also admitted to the intensive care unit, according to recent research.

The guidance, which permits temporary modification of standard protocols, is aimed at mitigating circumstances that could lead to avoidable COVID-19 exposure for patients, providers and others working with or around imaging equipment and related systems.

Ferric Contrast, a contrast agent company founded by faculty from the University at Buffalo in New York, says doctors and patients want new options in MR imaging.

The agency's greenlight offers clinicians a possible first-line tool to gather chest images from patients infected with the virus.