Radiologists use diagnostic imaging to non-invasively look inside the body to help determine the causes of an injury or an illness, and confirm a diagnosis. Providers use many imaging modalities to do so, including CT, MRI, X-ray, Ultrasound, PET and more.
This is a clinical photo gallery of fetal imaging that explains what all can be seen on medical imaging, how sex is determined, how measurements are used to track the development of a baby.
Palos Community Hospital in Illinois will participate in a national Alzheimer’s study that will use a certain type of PET scan to help detect protein plaques found in the brain that play a role in contributing to the disease.
Chinese researchers have shown that adult pneumonia can be quite precisely diagnosed with lung ultrasound, according to a study conducted by members of the intensive care unit at Hebei General Hospital in the province of Hebei.
What we usually see on TV is that autopsies, performed to determine the cause of death of a person, are usually conducted by a surgeon cutting open a dead body.
Physical fitness is associated with cortical grey matter and total grey-matter volumes in elderly men at increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease. However, there’s no such association for women fitting the same profile.
The most effective way to diagnose a concussion is through a patient's experience, a CT scan or MRI scan, but a new test that records the way the brain processes sounds could potentially aid in helping scientists treat sports-related concussions.
Coal miners across Appalachia are suffering with severe cases of black lung disease, and a radiologist dealing with the crisis says even miners who have worked fewer than 20 years underground are affected.
The radiology department at Ashley County Medical Center (ACMC), a 33-bed critical access hospital in Crossett, Arkansas, has always made dose management a top priority.
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.
