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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Can soft drinks, fruit juice affect your memory?

Drinking a can of pop or a cup of fruit juice every day may increase chances of negatively impacting memory and development of smaller overall brain volumes and smaller hippocampal volumes, according to data from the Framingham Heart Study (FHS).

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AI identifies TB with high precision

After training two deep-learning models to identify tuberculosis, researchers at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia have gotten their human-free method to nail the disease with 96 percent accuracy, according to a study published online in Radiology.

Nebraska breast density bill signed into law

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts signed Legislative Bill 195 into law today making it the 32nd state to enact mandatory breast density reporting. 

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Neuroimaging data used to construct viable aging biomarker

U.K. and Aussie researchers have introduced a clinically relevant neuroimaging biomarker of aging-related brain deterioration and, in the process, shown how brain age predicts mortality.  

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3-modality fusion imaging may illuminate surgical guidance

Researchers at Pohang University in South Korea have demonstrated a three-modality method of fusion imaging that uses a photoacoustic component to deliver high-resolution visualization, suggesting the potential to supply comprehensive image guidance in real time during various surgeries.

MRI links 14 people with damaged hippocampi, 12 who had abused opioids

After 20 years of treating patients with neurological problems, Yuval Zabar discovered something he had never seen before.

Why is compression mammography the gold standard for breast cancer screening?

In Harvard Health Publications, Hope Ricciotti, MD and Hye-Chun Hur, MD, MPH, discuss the question: “Why isn’t there a better way to take a mammogram?”

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Brain MRI shows gender-specific approaches should be considered in treating alcoholism

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston University School of Medicine used brain MRIs in a new study to find the effects of alcoholism on the brain’s reward system may be different in women and men.

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.