Changes related to Parkinson’s disease (PD) were found in putative iron content over two years, according to a study published in the January 2014 issue of Academic Radiology. Rather than correlating with disease duration, the rate of the changes were mildly affected by individual factors like age at disease onset and eventual cognitive decline. 

Integration of DCE-MRI primary lesion kinetics significantly improves the Katz pathologic nomogram accuracy to predict the presence of occult axillary lymph node metastases in breast cancer patients with a positive sentinel lymph node biopsy, according to a study published in the January 2014 issue of Academic Radiology. 

Presence of the epsilon 4 variant of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene has been associated with accelerated rates of brain atrophy in individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), according to a study published online Jan. 14 in Radiology.

At the University of Florida, a radiologist and mechanical engineer have teamed up to design the next generation of football helmets, created to improve protection from head injuries that are rampant in the sport.

The anesthetic ketamine, used in both humans and animals, may have a new use: treating chronic, drug resistant major depression, according to a study published Jan. 7 in Translational Psychiatry.

The name is fluorodeoxymannose (FDM) and it is giving FDG some competition in the realm of glucose analogue imaging of atherosclerosis, according to a report published Jan. 12 in Nature.

Long past are the days when fluorodeoxyglucose was the primary workhorse for imaging neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). Now there is a veritable cornucopia of agents to choose from, but a family of compounds radiolabeled with gallium-68 have been gaining a lot of headway. These are Ga-68 DOTANOC, DOTATOC and DOTATATE.

The lifetime attributable risk of cancer and cancer related mortality is negligibly increased by the radiation emitted from CT use in the evaluation and management of severe traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), according to a study published online Dec. 26, 2013 by the American Journal of Roentgenology. Decisions regarding radiographic evaluation in the acute treatment of TBI should not be influenced by concern regarding future risk of radiation-induced cancer.