Clinical Breast MRI

Clinical Breast MRI

Sunday, Nov. 28, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

This interactive session is starting with the basics of breast MRI, with a focus on American College of Radiology (ACR) MRI BIRADS recommendations, and also is covering when and how to biopsy via MR guidance.

The speakers are:
  • Debra M. Ikeda, MD, Stanford University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Stanford, Calif.;
  • Gillian M. Newstead, MD, professor of radiology, University of Chicago Medical Center; and
  • Carol H. Lee, MD, diagnostic radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City.

Around the web

Positron, a New York-based nuclear imaging company, will now provide Upbeat Cardiology Solutions with advanced PET/CT systems and services. 

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.