PET amyloid imaging does a fine job finding susceptibility to Alzheimer’s disease long before symptoms set in, but PET tau imaging is better at showing what’s going on once neuronal injury becomes functionally evident. 

Pride of place has its place in publicizing medical breakthroughs, and the Aussies are rightly proud of a radioactive drug developed in Melbourne and presented June 11 at SNMMI in San Diego.

Two Danish researchers have shown that it’s crucial to x-ray suspected osteoarthritis in the knee with the patient in a standing, weight-bearing position rather than a supine, non-weight-bearing position.

A new MRI-guided intervention has proven safe and efficacious in men with prostate cancer, according to a study published in the Journal of Urology and publicized by UCLA Health June 10. 

Facebook advertising can help speed patients with inflammatory back pain (IBP) toward appropriate diagnostic procedures—including imaging with MRI rather than x-ray and observation by a rheumatology specialist rather than a primary-care doc—as well as toward proper treatment. 

Washington — The American College of Radiology supports provisions in the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (S.3040) that would extend until 2019 the current two-year delay in implementation of U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) screening mammography recommendations. 

From Portugal comes word of an endoscopic scanner in the works that will provide advanced imaging scans acquired within the body and, in the process, aid early detection of pancreatic and other cancers that are often found too late. 

Polyps characterized as both sessile and serrated lead to as many as 30 percent of all colorectal cancers, and they’re very good at avoiding detection by CT colonography—while quite readily giving themselves up to colonoscopy—according to a study published earlier this spring in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.