ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 27 — Carestream representatives will showcase the advantages its CARESTREAM OnSight 3D Extremity System (see video link) provides for orthopaedic surgeons and their patients at the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society conference that begins July 12. The system uses cone beam CT (CBCT) technology to capture high-quality, low-dose 3D weight-bearing exams.

Abdominal radiologists make more complete and precise diagnostic reads, and are more confident in their diagnoses, when they’re armed at the reading station with clinical information supplied by patients via questionnaire, according to a study published online June 24 in Abdominal Radiology.

In theory, having a mobile CT scanner available in a trauma resuscitation bay should save workup time over relying on a scanner near but not inside the bay. In reality, it doesn’t make a meaningful difference.

Gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs) in the macrocyclic category have proven safe enough in children to be considered the standard of care across pediatrics whenever contrast-enhanced MR imaging is indicated, according the authors of a European study published online June 21 in Radiology.

First-year medical students at a historically black university in the nation’s capital are getting a deep introduction to the basics of radiology.

Practical and noninvasive, MRI with arterial spin labeling may substitute for PET-CT with the radiotracer 18FDG, which requires intravenous injection, for imaging the brains of patients with suspected early-stage dementia.

Benzodiazepines—the family of popular sedatives that includes Valium, Xanax and such—seem to bring about structural changes in the brain, according to a European study running in the August edition of Psychiatry Neuroimaging.

Lumbar MRI for low-back pain may be under constant suspicion of overutilization, but findings from a Chinese study suggest it’s often appropriate for a very substantial subset of the general population: postmenopausal women.