Cancer patients who are offered free hospital-provided rideshare services are more likely to comply with radiation therapy recommendations. 

A new clinical trial in Australia is one of the largest in the world to use brain imaging to test the impact of psychedelics on neural activity.

The NRC noted that advancements in nuclear medicine and increased use of radiopharmaceuticals prompted the commission to reconsider the exclusion of extravasation from medical event reporting.  

American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) 2023 President Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, MD, said the subspecialty needs to up its game with new technology.

Out of 10 mock exams, the AI candidate passed two, achieving an overall accuracy of 79.5%, suggesting that the candidate is not quite “ready to graduate.” 

A neurologist who examined the patient's imaging explained that her brain swelling was so severe in some cases that the folds of the cerebral cortex appeared “merged and squashed.”

Mahadevappa Mahesh, PhD, professor of radiology and a medical physicist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, explains a new ACR effort to ensure that lower radiation dose X-ray images under Image Wisely and As Low as Reasonable Achievable (ALARA) meet diagnostic reading standards.

Although whole-body CT scans are frequently one of the first assessments in the triage of trauma patients, new research argues that the use of bedside ultrasound could be more appropriate for initial examinations. 

Patients adhering to a ketogenic diet can show reduced cerebral 18F-FDG uptake on PET imaging, study shows.

“This can have a major impact on the younger population, especially for women at high risk of developing breast cancer, like those with genetic mutations, where there is a necessity to start screenings at an early age,” experts explained in Academic Radiology.