The Royal Liverpool University Hospital’s interventional radiology department has recently invested in two SonoSite EDGE® hand-carried ultrasound systems to assist diagnosis and treatment of disease.

Radiation dose in lumbar spine CT can be cut 41 percent by accounting for patient size, according to a study abstract in the electronic exhibit program at the American Roentgen Ray Society Annual (ARRS) annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

To help reduce complications and improve the accuracy and safety of interventional procedures, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. extends AplioTM 500’s Smart Fusion ultrasound technology to MR.

A tailored breast cancer screening program that delivered screening mammography to 40-49 year old women and then referred them to ultrasound or breast MRI based on lifetime risk and breast density yielded more cancers than expected, with most cancers classified as low-stage disease, according to a study published online April 11 in Radiology.

Screening mammography may epitomize the classic Rodney Dangerfield line, “I don’t get no respect.” Despite the dearth of deference, breast imagers carry on; and in doing so, offer a model for imaging 3.0.

Older women with an extended period of time between their last mammogram and breast cancer diagnosis were at an increased risk for breast cancer mortality, suggesting a role for continued mammography screening among women aged 75 years and older, according to data presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2013, held in Washington, D.C., April 6-10.

As radiation exposure continues to grab headlines and patients ply physicians with questions, more providers are transitioning to low-dose imaging. However, the road to low-dose CT is riddled with potholes.

The screening mammo war may be drawing to a close to be replaced by a model of personalized screening based on a woman’s genetic, phenotypic and clinical profiles—an approach that will require much closer collaboration between breast imagers and clinicians, according to a review and accompanying editorial published in the April issue of The American Journal of Medicine.