The American College of Radiology (ACR) has named breast imaging researcher Etta Pisano, MD, chief research officer of the ACR, the first woman in ACR's history to hold the position.

Cardiac chamber enlargement can be identified with high specificity and reasonable sensitivity on axial chest CT images by use of gender-specific measurement thresholds, according to new research published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Scientific Station Staffed All Year Despite Nine Months Of Temperatures That Can Dip to -120 Degrees Fahrenheit

Heart attack and other life-threatening cardiovascular events can be predicted with CT-based measures of calcification in the abdominal aorta and could be a more accurate predictive model than the widely known Framingham risk score, according to research published Oct. 2 in Radiology.

SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) and deep learning have proven to be a powerful pair in predicting obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) and improving the interpretation of upright and supine images, according to research published Sept. 27 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

As imaging scans before widely more available and affordable, more Americans are getting more tests than they used to—currently totaling to more than 85 million CT scans each year, according to an article published Oct. 1 by The Washington Post. But how much is too much radiation?

A new protocol—HEART Pathway—can identify low-risk emergency department patients with chest pain who can be discharged without stress testing or angiography, according to results of a Sept. 28 study published in Circulation.

Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)-guided stent implantation produced better clinical outcomes for heart patients compared to a conventional angiography-guided method, said researchers this week at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting in San Diego, California.