March is Brain Injury Awareness Month, an effort undertaken by The Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA), which has worked to provide help to those dealing with the life-altering affects of brain injuries for more than 35 years.

Just over half of current smokers who receive an abnormal chest CT exam adhere to radiologists’ recommendations for follow-up imaging within 30 days, according to results of a study published online Feb. 28 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology

The list of reservations ED physicians have over keeping patients on spinal-trauma backboards once they’re transported in—prolonged use has been shown to intensify pain, cause pressure ulcers and bring on breathing difficulties—now must include a clear risk of increased radiation dose at CT.

Richardson Healthcare, a division of Richardson Electronics, Ltd. (NASDAQ: RELL), today announced the opening of its diagnostic imaging replacement parts and training center in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Adding a center in Europe is a direct response to Europe’s growing demand for high quality, cost effective parts to help lower the cost of healthcare.

A graduate engineering student at Princeton has come up with a way to overcome variability in the skills of ultrasound technologists. His method ensures better imaging quality every time by combining physics, biology and algorithms in a selfie-inspired process that, he says, results in higher resolution, better contrast, lower noise, fewer artifacts and more tissue-specific response.

Survivors of a recent earthquake who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have greater cortical thickness and reduced volume in specific regions of their brains when compared to other survivors with no reported symptoms, according to results of a study published online March 1 in the journal Radiology.

Performing PET/CT examinations using the radiotracer 18-Fluoro-deoxyglucose (FDG) immediately following localized liver tumor ablation is more effective than contrast-enhanced CT for predicting tumor recurrence, according to results of a study published online in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

The Great Lakes State is seeing rampant inconsistency statewide in the utilization of staging scans when women are diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer, and much of the variability owes to imaging orders that buck national guidelines.