Gamma Medica announced that New York’s first clinical LumaGEM Molecular Breast Imaging (MBI) system has been installed at Mercy Center, a member of Catholic Health Services of Long Island.

MRI enhanced with gadolinium ethoxybenzyl diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid—the scan referred to as “EOB MRI”—is significantly better than contrast-enhanced CT for assessing colorectal liver metastases that disappear after chemotherapy, according to a study published online March 22 in Radiology.

The Brookfield Zoo, located just outside of Chicago, uses one of the world’s largest CT scanners to diagnose and treat a wide variety of conditions across the 3,500 animals living at the zoo. The CT scanner was a donation from a local hospital and is capable of imaging animals up to 660 pounds, including fully-grown gorillas, tigers and dolphins.

SPECT imaging of the brain is used for gathering information on dopamine activity when it comes to monitoring patients with Parkinson’s disease.

Treating today’s cancer patient no longer means simply targeting the cancer. Given the known cardiotoxicities of some established chemotherapies and the possibility that newer approaches may damage the heart, oncologists, cardiologists and imaging specialists now work together to detect and minimize the risk of treatment-induced heart failure.

Diagnosing and monitoring prostate cancer requires patients undergo invasive biopsies. Researchers from Washington State University are changing how physicians do such actions with the development of a new non-invasive, filter-like device. 

In a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, researchers found that smokers treated for breast cancer have a higher risk than non-smokers when it comes to developing lung cancer or heart attack as a result of radiotherapy.

Medical researchers and engineers from North Carolina State University have found a new approach that uses ultrasound to measure fluid levels in the lungs.