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.
There is sufficient existing literature on which to base clinical decision rules separating patients with apparently minor but clinically serious head trauma—and thus in need of CT neuroimaging and prompt clinical intervention—from similarly alert and responsive head-trauma patients who would be better off avoiding the radiation exposure and the costs.
The pluck of an Italian 3D mammography engineer who works for GE in France has caught the eye of a Forbes.com contributing writer in the U.K. who describes his journalism niche as covering “amazing tech and the people inventing it.”
That old saying "jack of all trades, master of none" can be applied to medical imaging. Even the bright minds that make up the radiology workforce need focused training and years of specific experience in order to understand all the intricacies of the profession, and there's one area in particular where specialized expertise is particularly valuable: mammography.
Architectural distortion, the non-mass but potentially ominous clinical feature observed in many breast imaging procedures, is less likely to signal malignancy when it’s detected on screening mammography rather than diagnostic mammography or when it does not correlate with a subsequent targeted ultrasound exam.
Screening mammography of women in their 40s based solely on risk as flagged by extremely dense breasts, very strong family history or both would lead to much higher mortality on the heels of more than 75 percent fewer screen-detected cancers in this group.
Roseland Community Hospital, based in Chicago, Ill., has successfully deployed the eRAD cloud-based PACS, with Integrated Speech Recognition, as part of its commitment to using the most advanced imaging technology available.
BTG plc, the specialist healthcare company, announces it has received 510k clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration for LC Bead LUMI™, the first commercially available radiopaque embolic bead, for the embolisation of hypervascular tumours and arteriovenous malformations (AVMs).
Aside from wasting money and time, too many tests can result in false positives and inappropriate treatment. The Choosing Wisely campaign was thus created to limit wasteful or unnecessary medical tests, treatments and procedures, but one group is looking to expand some of the recommendations already in place.
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.
