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.
Queen Elizabeth I’s famously mysterious advisor John Dee has been demystified, if only slightly, by an x-ray investigation conducted more than four centuries after his death. Or has he?
Volpara Solutions has won FDA 510(k) clearance for software designed to help radiologists meet the BI-RADS Atlas fifth-edition requirement to provide an overall assessment of the volume of attenuating tissues in the breast.
Determination of breast density fluctuates considerably from one exam to the next in any given woman. Such variability can both perplex the patient and drive unintended consequences into her care pathway.
Subsequent breast cancers occur in patients with just their own premenstrual history of the disease at close to the same rate as in patients with both personal and family breast-cancer history, according to a study published online Jan. 7 in Academic Radiology.
The debate over CT radiation dose communications—does discussing the matter with patients lead them to make informed decisions or scare them away from tests they may need?—is just one part of a broader discussion on dose getting a wide national airing in the mainstream press.
Five score and 20 years ago this week—or six score flat, if you prefer—the word went out from William Roentgen’s lab to the world. The publicity came courtesy of an Austrian newspaper.
According to a recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, the use of chest CT in hospital emergency departments (ED) to evaluate respiratory symptoms significantly jumped from 2001 to 2010.
A study of more than 2,500 women has found ultrasound just as good as mammography at detecting breast cancer. On the downside, ultrasound generated more false positives than mammography.
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.
