CHICAGO--Eliot L. Siegel, MD, professor of diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center and director of radiology at the Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Baltimore, spoke with Health Imaging News about a study being presented at RSNA 2010 on iterative reconstruction technologies from major CT vendors, as well as the nationwide status of CT radiation exposure.
Deepak Bhatt, MD, director of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital and principal investigator of the TRANSFORM trial, explains an emerging technique for cardiac screening: combining coronary CT angiography with artificial intelligence for plaque analysis to create an approach similar to mammography.
A total of 16 cardiology practices from 12 states settled with the DOJ to resolve allegations they overbilled Medicare for imaging agents used to diagnose cardiovascular disease.
