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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Elevated cancer risk for rad techs working with interventional fluoroscopy

Compared with radiologic technologists who have never performed fluoroscopically guided interventional procedures, those who have done so seem to be at markedly increased risk of dying from brain cancer and at moderately increased risk of developing melanoma and breast cancer.

Might epileptic memory disruptions respond to device-based intervention?

Working with data from both rats and humans, NYU Langone researchers have confirmed that certain abnormal discharges are likely behind the lag in the time it takes an epileptic brain to process memory signals traveling from the hippocampus to the cortex. 

National Mammography Database becomes the fastest growing mammo registry in the U.S.

A study published by the American Journal of Roentgenology concluded that the National Mammography Database (NMD) has become the fastest growing mammography registry in the United States, surpassing the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium.

Study: Single season of high school football can damage athlete's brain

The repeated impacts experienced in one season of playing high school football can do significant damage to an athlete’s brain, according to a recent study published by the Journal of Neurotrauma.

Budoff wins SCCT’s 2016 gold medal award

The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) announced that Matthew J. Budoff, MD, had won its 2016 Gold Medal Award.

Breast MRI detects more invasive cancers than mammography in high-risk women

Invasive breast cancers are more likely to be found through breast MRI screening rather than mammography in women with elevated risk factors, according to results of a study published online April 20 in the journal Radiology.

SPECT-MRI fusion reduces false positives and risky surgeries for patients with cervical cancer

Patients with cervical cancer who do not have enlarged nodes may benefit from SPECT-MRI fusion imaging, according to results of a recent study published in the April issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

VCU researchers discover gene function that promotes spread of prostate cancer cells

The process driving metastasis of prostate cancer cells can be linked to a previously unkown function of one gene.

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