Medical Imaging

Physicians utilize medical imaging to see inside the body to diagnose and treat patients. This includes computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-ray, ultrasound, fluoroscopy, angiography,  and the nuclear imaging modalities of PET and SPECT. 

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Contrast-enhanced digital mammo helps avoid benign biopsies

Using contrast-enhanced digital mammography (CEDM) to evaluate low to moderately suspicious breast lesions can greatly reduce biopsies in patients with benign lesions, according to a study published Sept. 5 in Academic Radiology.

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Genetics help predict adverse reactions to CT contrast agents

Patients with a family or personal history of allergic reactions to contrast media are in danger of experiencing future reactions, according to a study published Sept. 3 in Radiology.  

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Ga-PSMA-11 PET/CT adds value to prostate cancer management

Using [68Ga]Ga-PSMA-11 PET/CT to monitor treatment response in prostate cancer patients can offer important lesion-based insights over prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-based monitoring, according to a new study published in EJNMMI Research.

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More patient options doesn't improve colorectal cancer screening rates

Providing patients more testing choices does not increase their participation in colorectal cancer screening—but the way clinician’s framed those choices did, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open.

DOE hands out final cooperative agreement for Mo-99 production

The Department of Energy (DOE)’s National Nuclear Security Administration has issued a fourth, and final, cooperative agreement to Corvallis, Oregon-based Northwest Medical Isotopes, LLC.

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Can CT diagnose hip fractures when MRI is unavailable?

Trenton T. Kellock, MD, with Royal Inland Hospital’s Department of Medical Imaging in British Columbia, Canada, and colleagues performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies including more than 1,200 patients.

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Paul Ryan selected to SHINE’s board of directors

In July, SHINE was one of three companies to receive $15 million in funding from the Department of Energy (DOE)’s National Nuclear Security Administration to bolster its production of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99).

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New PET center combines radiology, psychiatry to combat opioid use disorder

The Penn PET Addiction Center of Excellence (PACE) will harness the minds of radiology and psychiatry researchers to better understand opioid use disorder and develop improvement treatment options.

Around the web

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.

Deepak Bhatt, MD, director of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital and principal investigator of the TRANSFORM trial, explains an emerging technique for cardiac screening: combining coronary CT angiography with artificial intelligence for plaque analysis to create an approach similar to mammography.

A total of 16 cardiology practices from 12 states settled with the DOJ to resolve allegations they overbilled Medicare for imaging agents used to diagnose cardiovascular disease.