Diagnostic screening programs help catch cancer, abnormalities or other diseases before they reach an advanced stage, saving lives and healthcare costs. Screening programs include, lung, breast, prostate, and cervical cancer, among many others.
Breast density is most often discussed within the context of cancer risk, but new research suggests that it also could be used as a marker of cardiometabolic health.
The newly cleared offering, AutoChamber, was designed with opportunistic screening in mind. It can evaluate many different kinds of CT images, including those originally gathered to screen patients for lung cancer.
Medical technology today often seems to have been ripped straight out of science fiction lore of years past, and perhaps no other specialty provides a better showcase for the marvels of that technology than imaging.
Intermountain Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City has installed a Carestream DRX-Revolution Mobile X-ray System for imaging pediatric patients in the NICU, emergency department and throughout the hospital.
Emerson Hospital in Concord, Mass., has installed Toshiba America Medical Systems’ Aquilion PRIME 160 CT system for CT angiography, orthopedic imaging and other general exams.
If underperforming physicians received interventions to boost performance on newly developed criteria for diagnostic mammography, the result would be an increase in cancer diagnosis and a reduction of false-positives, according to an article published online Jan. 7 in Radiology.
As the U.S. tries to tame burgeoning Medicare costs, researchers are attempting to determine the costs and benefits of healthcare services delivered to older Americans. One current flash point is screening mammography.
A study has shown that radiologists can miss seeing a gorilla stamped on a diagnostic image. More than four-out-of-five radiologists did not see the image of a gorilla printed on a stack of chest CTs, according to the study slated for publication in Psychological Science.
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.
