A husband-and-wife research team at the University of Virginia (UVA) Cancer Center in Charlottesville, was awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to improve their advanced radiation therapy technique for early-stage breast cancer patients, according to a UVA press release published Nov. 15.

A 15-minute MR spectroscopy scan can diagnose brain damage in newborns with 98 percent accuracy up to two years earlier than current methods, according to an Imperial College London (ICL) press release. The research was published online Nov. 14 in The Lancet Neurology.

The NFL, on Thursday, Nov. 15, awarded more than $35 million in grants for research focused on the diagnosis and treatment of concussion-related brain injuries, according to the league. The grants are part of its 2016 commitment to enhance player safety.

The Molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) shortage is expected to subside over the coming few weeks as generators across the globe slowly begin to resume production, according to the Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).

The clinically-validated solution promises to empower radiologists with fully automatic lung quantification and significant boosts in reading efficiency.

While the number of female medical students has risen, women specialists remain underrepresented in nuclear medicine in the U.S. and Canada—specifically in academic and leadership positions, according to a recent study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

The device allows healthcare providers to look at an image of the body in different layers (bone versus soft tissue) to get a clearer image of the lungs, the CBC reported Nov. 15.  

NHS England has announced plans to do a major overall of its national cancer screening programs as part of its Long Term Plan, an initiative aimed to improve patient care and outcomes, according to an NHS press release published Nov. 15.

Radiologists outperformed a convolutional neural network (CNN) and radiomic analysis (RA) at classifying contrast-enhancing lesions on multiparametric breast MRI, according to a Nov. 13 study published in Radiology. With more training, however, CNNs may soon close that gap.