Radiologists prefer colonoscopy over CT colonography (CTC) for colorectal cancer screening due to its effectiveness at detection and immediate biopsy capabilities, according to results of a study published in the February issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

A trade website is keeping an eye on the blossoming “romance” between 3D printing and radiology.

Scientists from ITMO University in St. Petersburg, Russia, collaborating with colleagues in Australia and the Netherlands, have shown that metamaterials—synthetic composites with particular electromagnetic properties—can improve the quality of “ordinary” MR imaging while cutting scan time.

If iterative reconstruction techniques are to help reduce CT radiation dose while improving visualization, imagers must take into account not only the reconstruction technique they choose but also the scanner model they use. 

A research team has designed and validated a software algorithm that uses quantitative analysis of CT images to automatically detect and precisely localize vertebral body fractures in the thoracic and lumbar spine.

Happy New Year and welcome to 2016, which, if recent history is any indication, is sure to bring major developments to the world of advanced visualization.

MRI studies of healthy, adult human brains appear to have revealed new connectivity patterns, according to a recent study published in Brain Connectivity.

Do they know it's Christmas? The 1980s Christmas hit leveraged that rhetorical question for charity, but now, researchers in Denmark have taken a more literal approach, using fMRI to search for the Christmas spirit in the brains of a small group of Copenhageners.