GE Healthcare Korea announced today it has installed its cyclotron with a complete PET radiopharmacy suite at the Korea Institute of Radiological & Medical Sciences (KIRAMS), making the nuclear medicine institute the world’s 400th cyclotron production facility under the GE brand.

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) urged the Trump administration to avoid implementation of additional 25 percent tariffs on products imported from China, including medical imaging equipment.

The Alzheimer’s Association offered a sneak peek of its first clinical practice guidelines for primary care physicians in diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias during its July 22 annual meeting in Chicago.

Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC) successfully used high-resolution MRI and a cell-labeling technique to visualize nearly 100 cells, which may allow clinicians to assess the effectiveness of immune cell- and stem cell-based therapies to treat cancer.

In the Blue Mountains region of southeastern Australia a lack of MRI services are hampering patient care, the Blue Mountain Gazette reported—and local politicians are calling for action.

The American College of Radiology (ACR) released four new and 23 revised documents in its 2018 Practice Parameters and Technical Standards.

A novel blood test given within 12 hours of suspected traumatic brain injury (TBI) may eliminate unnecessary CT scans while sparing patients radiation exposure and reducing costs, a new study in The Lancet Neurology reported—but some experts remain skeptical.

According to the world of Twitter, the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology renders an overwhelmingly positive response and is joined with arguments against AI potentially replacing radiologists, wrote authors Julia Goldberg, and Andrew Rosenkrantz, MD, in a piece published July 23 in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal the 2.3 percent medical device tax that was implemented as part of the Affordable Care Act. The House voted 283 to 132, with 57 Democrats joining Republicans.

Quantifying myocardial blood flow (MBF) with CT perfusion (CTP) imaging can accurately predict major adverse cardiac events (MACEs). It also showed improved risk stratification in stenosis patients when paired with coronary CT angiography (CTA), according to a recent JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging study.