Researchers in Europe have combined ultrafast ultrasound with electroencephalography (EEG) to localize seizure sites in the brain microvasculature of newborn babies whose cortexes had developed abnormally.

MR enterography is an excellent performer when it comes to diagnosing active inflammation in children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), especially at the per-patient (vs. per-lesion) level, according to a literature review conducted in South Korea and published online Oct. 9 in JAMA Pediatrics.

The effects of Zika virus on fetuses can be better analyzed using MRI over ultrasound as the imaging modality. According to ongoing research by the Children’s National Health System in Washington, D.C., MRI provides more detailed images that reveal more extensive areas of damage to the developing fetal brain.

ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group (ECOG-ACRIN) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) are leading the Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial, the first randomized trial to compare 2D and 3D digital mammography screening.

Pediatric patients with nontraumatic abdominal pain are less likely to receive CT scans—and more likely to be imaged with ultrasound instead—in pediatric emergency departments than their peers taken to general emergency departments (EDs).

Patients experiencing respiratory distress are not well served by lung ultrasound administered by paramedics and remotely interpreted by emergency physicians, although this could change if training techniques advance along with telemedicine and ultrasound technologies.

There is no salary gap between male and female radiologists working at academic medical institutions in the U.S., according to an analysis by Harvard Medical School researchers published online Sept. 5 in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Linköping, Sweden and Shelton, CT—September 5, 2017—International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) announces that Temple University Health System (TUHS) will install Sectra PACS throughout their multi-hospital system.