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. 

New automated ultrasound machines make way to NY state hospitals

A new breast cancer screening technology is adding itself to the list of traditional imaging technologies in New York state hospitals.  

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A promising trend: Women carving out larger share of radiology workforce

Radiology remains a field primarily populated by men, but new research hints that the gender gap in diversity may be closing.

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NYU study involves CT findings in diagnosing cecal volvulus

A recent study conducted by four radiologists at New York University assessed the utility of CT features in the detection and official diagnosis of cecal volvulus.

Stanford develops novel PET tracer to ID most bacterial infections

Bacteria are experts at mutating to become resistant to any antibiotic treatment. With no promise of stagnation, it is no wonder that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has called for medical scientists to develop new novel diagnostics to detect and help regulate the treatment of infections and infectious diseases.

Is a lack of personalization keeping women from mammograms?

Recent Swedish-based research examined the reasoning behind women refraining from mammography screenings.

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Ultrasound helps find seizure sites in neonatal brains

Researchers in Europe have combined ultrafast ultrasound with electroencephalography (EEG) to localize seizure sites in the brain microvasculature of newborn babies whose cortexes had developed abnormally.

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Breast cancer incidentally found in 17% of chest CT patients

Thirteen of 75 patients who had abnormal incidental findings in the breast after undergoing chest CT, or 17.3 percent, ended up indeed having breast cancer in a recent study, prompting the authors to recommend follow-up breast-specific imaging in all such cases.

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New study to pit mammography vs. DNA blood test

Can a genomics blood test catch signature bits of DNA that break off of breast-cancer cells and float through the bloodstream? If so, can the test reliably confirm mammography findings—or possibly alert clinicians to the presence of a tumor even more quickly than imaging can?

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.