CCTA continues to grow more and more important in the day-to-day treatment of heart patients. Hospitals and health systems that fail to embrace the modality risk falling behind.

The rapid rise of CCTA represents one of cardiology’s biggest ongoing trends, but most primary care providers are still not embracing a CT-first strategy.

Maros Ferencik, MD, noted that the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography represents specialists from many different specialties, including cardiology, radiology and beyond. 

Dana Smetherman, MD, MBA, outlines a possible remedy for the growing number of these roadblocks in the specialty. 

Cardiologist Theodore Abraham, MD, has been an ASE member for more than two decades. He is now the organization's 2024-2025 president. 

Offering radiology-based education programs during the first two years of medical school could be the key to addressing some of the field’s most pressing issues.  

Radiology researchers feel no less squeezed to “publish or perish” than academics working in any other medical specialty.

Medical imaging machinery uses a lot of power, and the extent to which it quickens the pace of global warming is becoming clearer.