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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Initial US for suspected nephrolithiasis cuts radiation dose

Using ultrasound (US) instead of CT as the initial imaging method for suspected nephrolithiasis can spare some patients from radiation while not significantly affecting outcomes according to a study published in the September issue of the New England Journal of Medicine

Lymphoseek gets FDA orphan drug designation for head and neck cancers

Navidea, based in Dublin, Ohio, announced yesterday that the radiopharmaceutical company has received orphan drug designation for the small molecular radiotracer technetium-99m tilmanocept (Lymphoseek) specifically for sentinel lymph node mapping in cancer cases of the head and neck.

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FDG-PET parameters predict survival in non-small cell lung cancer

Quantitative PET metrics including metabolic tumor volume using F-18 FDG can project heath outcomes after chemoradiotherapy for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to a study presented Wednesday during the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) held Sept. 14-17 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Patients reveal anxiety over CT imaging

Patients undergoing CT imaging experienced anxiety over radiation exposure, claustrophobia and intravenous contrast, according to a study published online Sept. 16 in Academic Radiology.

Recording your mind with MRI

Would you like to be able to record your thoughts and memories to playback later? This sci-fi concept is not yet a reality, but a Connecticut-based startup is hoping the first step toward this goal can be achieved using MRI.

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ASTRO 2014: Precise radiotherapy saves more sexual function for prostate cancer patients

External beam radiotherapy (EBRT) was compared with a combination therapy of EBRT and brachytherapy to see which provided long-term sexual health for patients with prostate cancer. Results indicated that both treatment plans led to a high level of sexual function due to isolated radiation, according to a study presented during the 2014 annual meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) being held Sept. 14-17 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

ASTRO 2014: Proton therapy's lightspeed promise

As the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) concludes today at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Molecular Imaging caught up with two experts in proton therapy technology and policy—David C. Beyer, MD, president-elect of ASTRO, and Sameer R. Keole, MD, vice chair of ASTRO’s government relations council and a radiation oncologist at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix—to talk about how this cutting-edge technology is changing.

When the patient image is your own

Physicians look at patient images every day, but does this experience help someone cope when the MRI brain scans they are viewing are their own?

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