The e-book version of the fifth edition of the American College of Radiology (ACR) Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) Atlas is now available.

Vox Media picked up on the story of the first birth captured on MRI, and the images are available for anyone to view.

A blood test that predicts a patient’s likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s disease has been the target of a multi-center National Institutes of Health study and was recently publicized by the Alzheimer’s Association. Aliso Viego, Calif., based NanoSomiX announced today that it would begin providing the assay to researchers and pharmaceutical companies studying Alzheimer’s treatments this fall.

Functional connectivity changes in advanced Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are similar whether the patient has autosomal dominant AD (ADAD) or late-onset AD (LOAD), according to a study published in the September issue of JAMA Neurology.

The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) today said a new analysis published in the Annals of Internal Medicine confirms the value of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) lung imaging for high-risk Medicare-eligible patients.

A novel reconstruction method of cardiac SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) could potentially reduce scan times by 50 percent and cut 75 percent of the time it takes to reconstruct images, according to research announced by the University of Eastern Finland yesterday.

CT scans done with intravenous contrast material did not increase the incidence of death or of contrast-induced kidney damage, even in patients with a pre-existing condition, according to a study published online in Radiology.

Despite concerns about the benefit of low-dose CT (LDCT) lung cancer screening in older patients, a secondary analysis of data from the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) has found the test’s positive predictive value is actually higher for those older than 65.