For patients with metastatic prostate cancer, understanding its genesis and evolution can mean all the difference for treatment. But, what if, as a recent Journal of Nuclear Medicine perspective proposes, a new “clinical state” could improve understanding and treatment of the disease?

Patients in Pulaski County, Indiana now have access to quiet, comfortable MR exams thanks to the installation of the Vantage TitanTM / Zen Edition 1.5T from Canon Medical Systems USA, Inc. at Pulaski Memorial Hospital.

“The time has come for radiologists to position themselves to provide leadership in driving this field to the next level,” Rao said in a prepared statement published by RSNA on July 19. “Radiologists will have to increase their knowledge of all aspects of diseases and data science aside from just the imaging aspects.”

TUSTIN, California, July 23, 2018 —Patients in Pulaski County, Indiana now have access to quiet, comfortable MR exams thanks to the installation of the Vantage TitanTM / Zen Edition 1.5T from Canon Medical Systems USA, Inc. at Pulaski Memorial Hospital.

The Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), along with a host of other leading medical imaging groups and vendors, addressed a July 18 letter to the Senate and House subcommittees on Energy and Water Development voicing its support for $20 million in additional funding to help establish domestic production of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99).

Jennifer Lim-Dunham, MD, and colleagues at Chicago's Loyola University Medical Center took home the Society for Pediatric Radiology’s Walter E. Berdon Award for best clinical research paper during the group’s annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee.

A specialized x-ray diffraction lab at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago is using fiber diffraction, allowing scientists to study structural tissue changes in the human heart, brain and even dinosaur fossils. The technique may help physicians track injury-related tissue damage and identify risk areas, according to an American Crystallographic Association release from July 22.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has recently started using new Analogic 3D CT machines in a handful of U.S. airports to scan carry-on bags and spot explosives, according to a report published July 23 by CBS.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH)'s Clinical Center made a dataset of more than 32,000 annotated lesions identified on CT images representing 4,400 patients available to the public, according to a July 20 release.

Health Imaging recently spoke with father-and-son scientists Anthony Butler, PhD, and Phil Butler, PhD, about the MARS spectral x-ray scanner, a new 3D color x-ray machine that has gained international attention since it successfully imaged its first human subject last week.