A grant amounting to $2.8 million has been awarded to Lightpoint Medical and surgical partners of the company headquartered in Rickmansworth, England, to bolster clinical trials for intraoperative imaging systems for prostate and breast cancer.

The pancreas-to-muscle signal intensity ratio on T1-weighted MR images of the pancreas may be a potential biomarker for assessment of pancreatic fibrosis and prediction of postoperative pancreatic fistula, according to a study published in the March issue of Radiology. 

A new way to access a woman’s fibroids to nonsurgically shrink noncancerous growths in the muscular wall of the uterus has been developed by interventional radiologists, according to a report published in the March issue of the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. 

A voxel-based comparison of F-18 fluorothymidine (FLT) PET and MR spectroscopy revealed good contrast between tumorous and healthy tissues for both methods, according to a study presented during the scientific session of the 2014 European Congress of Radiology (ECR), which concludes today at Austria Center Vienna.

PET provides more detail than perfusion-weighted MRI about glioma tumor extent and metabolic activity, according to a study published online Feb. 27 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Prenatal tobacco use adversely affects brain development by limiting a child’s total brain volume and particularly their gray matter, according to longitudinal MRI research published in the March 2014 edition of Neuropsychopharmacology.

International medical imaging IT company, Sectra  (STO: SECT B), and IDS announce Sectra CloudFlex, a cloud-based, comprehensive suite of breast imaging tools designed for low-volume mammography sites.

VIENNA—Positron emission mammography (PEM) was found to have 100 sensitivity for all imaged breast tumors, according to a study being presented during the 2014 European Congress of Radiology (ECR) scientific sessions.