Novocure, an oncology company based in Portsmouth, N.H., announced today that its portable, noninvasive brain tumor device Optune will now be covered by Humana, which becomes the ninth commercial payer in the U.S. to issue a positive coverage policy for the treatment.

A combination of integrated circuit detectors and iterative reconstruction (IR) utilization in CT exams has proven effective at significantly reducing image noise in phantom subjects and could lead to less patient radiation exposure, according to results of a new study published in the journal Radiology.

It’s one of those research stories in which the story is as good as the research. It involves cutting-edge fMRI, a neuroscientist struggling to use it to directly associate blood responses with neural signals, and a student who aspired to work in the scientist’s lab and had just the rare condition for the job (of calculating the connections, that is).

Care must be used when evaluating imaging results of supplemental breast ultrasound used in tandem with traditional mammography screening to avoid excessive false-positive rates and retain specificity, according to results of a new study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Emergency imagers can cut CT radiation dose by more than 85 percent and still produce diagnostic images that reliably identify patients with acute flank pain who, as suspected, need intervention within 90 days for calculi in the urinary system, according to a study posted ahead of print in Radiology.

CLEVELAND, March 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- MIM Software Inc., a leading global provider of medical imaging software, has recently collaborated with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), nationally recognized by the National Cancer Institute and ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top hospitals for cancer care in the country.

By systematically analyzing the root causes of radiation-dose outliers—those with volumetric or dose-length product values higher than the 99th percentile and less than the first percentile in a large cohort—University of Toronto researchers were able to pinpoint corrective actions for CT scanning at a 463-bed teaching hospital.

Medtronic, the medical technology, services and solutions company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, announced today that its Specify SureScan MRI surgical leads have received FDA approval.