Cardiac Imaging

While cardiac ultrasound is the widely used imaging modality for heart assessments, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and nuclear imaging are also used and are often complimentary, each offering specific details about the heart other modalities cannot. For this reason the clinical question being asked often determines the imaging test that will be used.

How hospitals, patients coped after shuttering of Belleville Imaging

Belleveville Imaging lost its mammography license in November 2016 due to reasonings that include not meeting the American College of Radiology's (ACR) clinical image evaluation critera. 

GE Healthcare, InTouch Health collaborate for virtual onsite training

GE Healthcare and InTouch Health are teaming up to train radiologists, high-tech imaging techs and more than 300 other medical professionals, using imaging devices for virtual onsite training.

DICOM Standards Committee launches working group to address 3D printing

A representative of the DICOM Standards Committee (DSC) announced that they will be launching Working Group 17 (WG-17) that will focus on promoting efficient patient care and avoiding deficits in interoperability. 

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CT imaging to guide surgeons in performing ambulatory tubeless PCNL to remove kidney stones

Leading kidney stone surgeons from Chesapeake Urology in Westminster, Maryland, will be performing tubeless percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL), a minimally invasive but complex technique, utilizing CT imaging to remove large kidney stones in an ambulatory surgery center.

MRI scans not catching all high grade prostate tumors

According to investigators who reported their fidings at the Society of Urologic Oncology's 17th annual meeting, standard 12-core prostate biopsies need to be given regardless if there were no findings of prostate lesions on MRI scans. 

That knee MRI could cost $200—or $3,900

Minnesota Community Measurement, a firm that collects and reports healthcare data, conducted a survey of 1.5 million insurance claims that found a large difference when it came to cost of clinical visits or procedures.

Ever wonder why that bag of chips are half empty? These x-rays have the answer

We have all come across a bag of chips that's seemingly empty once they're opened. A Consumer Centre in Germany went above and beyond their call of duty to get the answers as to why exactly that is.

Could pigment in spinach be effective in examining GI tract?

Spinach and other rich green plants have a unique pigment that could allow doctors to examine the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract with a clearer view.

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Positron, a New York-based nuclear imaging company, will now provide Upbeat Cardiology Solutions with advanced PET/CT systems and services. 

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.