Baptist Health South Florida acquires the first Acuson Sequoia systems, enabling physicians to scan at greater depths without affecting image quality and real-time performance
Central Maine Healthcare (CMH) in Lewiston recently announced plans to open an outpatient care facility inside a mall in southern Maine—offering imaging services and urgent care, according to the Sun Journal. The system believes its model can lower healthcare costs in the region.
Cardiac specialists may be able to better identify scarred heart tissue and perform cardiac ablation in arrhythmia patients with a newly developed 3D imaging system based on cardiac MRI, according to research published Sept. 3 in Nature Biomedical Engineering.
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) released its annual cancer progress report Wednesday, Sept. 12, revealing increasing cases despite progress made in diagnosing and treating various cancers.
Engineers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada who developed a new ultrasound transducer say it could lower the cost of ultrasound machines to just $100. The probe is portable, wearable and can be powered by a smartphone.
MRI has become a central part of diagnosing and managing prostate cancer, but private payer coverage has not kept up with this technological trend, reported authors of a recent Journal of the American College of Radiology study.
A new mathematical pattern developed by Shekhar Chandra, PhD, from the University of Queensland in Australia, could make MRI scans four times faster, according to a university release from Sept. 11.
The special report was created by a group of international researchers, gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA) manufacturers and representatives of the FDA at a workshop co-sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and the American College of Radiology (ACR) in February.
California Gov. Jerry Brown guaranteed the state’s breast density notification program will extend through 2025 after he signed the Dense Breast Tissue Awareness bill (SB-1034) this week.
