Last year, more than 56,000 angina patients across the U.K. were denied life-saving CT heart scans due to the continuing shortage of radiologists and scanners, according to data released Nov. 8 by the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) and the British Society of Cardiovascular Imaging (BSCI), published in The BMJ.

After more than 30 years, a domestic supply of the radioisotope Iodine-131 (I-131) is now available for diagnostic imaging and thyroid cancer treatment.

Many U.S. patients feel well-informed heading into imaging procedures, but nearly half still reported feeling anxious, according to a new worldwide survey.

Real-time MRI footage of beat boxers was recently presented at a joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Canadian Acoustical Association in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada on Nov. 7, according to a recent report by Popular Science.

The interventional radiologist, and former chief medical officer for the U.S. Navy, Steve Ferrara, MD, lost to his Democratic challenger and former Phoenix Mayor, Greg Stanton in the race to represent Arizona’s 9th Congressional District, according to an ArizonaCentral report.

Researchers from the Medical University of Vienna in Austria provided new guidance for selecting optimizing features from 18F-FDG-PET/CT studies—demonstrating feature variations can be minimized for selected image parameters and imaging systems, in a new study published Nov. 2 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Researchers created and validated a deep learning algorithm to improve the detection of polyps during colonoscopy, according to a study published in the latest issue of Nature Biomedical Engineering.

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City found convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained to detect pneumonia on chest x-rays performed poorly when tested on data from outside health systems, according to a study published online Nov. 6 in PLOS Medicine.

Inhibiting a certain class of cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) proteins could protect cancer patients from chemotherapy-induced heart failure—the second leading cause of death in the demographic after cancer recurrence—according to research published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Medical images and articles found on Wikipedia may help patients better understand their radiology reports, according to a new study published in the Journal of Digital Imaging.