GE Healthcare’s Life Sciences business has sealed the deal for the exclusive rights from Rapiscan Pharma Solutions to commercialize Rapiscan (Regadenoson), used in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD), in territories outside the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

The pressure was on to make an important purchase decision, and fast. Willapa Harbor Hospital in South Bend, Washington, had just seen its aging mammography machine reach the point of no repair.

Lisa Quamme, breast health coordinator and senior radiology technologist at Northpoint Health and Wellness Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, spoke to Radiology Business about how the system has improved their mammography screening.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that 20 percent of the annual 1.7 million concussions sustained in the U.S. are sports related—and it reaches far beyond these numbers as a global issue.

Children presenting with symptoms of low-impact neck trauma are better imaged with MRI than with x-ray—and not just because of the radiation avoidance, according to a study published online Dec. 6 in Child’s Nervous System, the journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery.

PET/MR has proven more precise than PET/CT in a prospective study comparing the modalities on their in-practice utility for clarifying the workup of cancers of unknown primary origin, according to research published online Dec. 3 in Clinical Nuclear Medicine.

Astronauts on extended missions know to expect visual impairment that could be serious and permanent if not treated quickly upon returning to earth. Researchers now know the cause of the unfortunately predictable—and potentially preventable—problem, according to study findings presented at RSNA. 

The shared environment of twins—possibly in utero as well as in childhood—ups the risk of brain incidental findings associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in both siblings even when only one of them has ASD, according to an MRI-based study published online Nov. 22 in Autism Research.