NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City officially launched its Concussion Center on March 19, with an event featuring presentations from a professional athlete and experts on the topic of brain injuries.

A prospective study published in the April issue of The Lancet showed how beta-amyloid burden in the brain relates to the long-term progression of cognitive decline, cerebral atrophy and other indications of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). “Beta-amyloid deposition is slow and protracted, likely to extend for more than two decades,” the authors wrote.

A study published March 18 in Annals of Family Medicine that detailed long-term psychosocial harms of false-positive screening mammograms is compromised by methodological irregularities, underplays the harm of a breast cancer diagnosis and does not address existing strategies used to minimize anxiety, according to statements by the American College of Radiology (ACR), the Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) and breast imaging experts.

Amerinet, a St. Louis-based organization that collaborates with providers to improve performance, has signed a three-year agreement to offer Carestream’s CR and DR digital imaging systems to its 60,000-plus members nationwide.

The emergence of PET/MR imaging has been solidly underway for a few years and the combination of the two modalities represents significant improvements to PET alone, namely MR’s excellent soft-tissue contrast and ability to capture not only physiologic but also biochemical and metabolic data. A review in the March issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine presents an updated perspective on how PET/MR is moving forward.

Sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsies determining primary prostate cancer metastases require diversified imaging techniques due to the location of these lymph nodes buried within the pelvis and elsewhere. As many as 44 percent of SLNs are located outside the pelvic region. Hybrid near-infrared fluorescence and SPECT/CT or PET/MR may provide some advantages before and during surgery, according to a review in the March issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

When it comes to MRI scans following stroke, a new study bluntly states “Do it or lose it,” as diagnostic yield is significantly reduced if a scan is not conducted in a timely manner, according to results published in the March issue of Stroke.

Women who experience a false-positive screening mammogram incur long-term psychosocial harms, researchers reported March 18 in Annals of Family Medicine. Three years after a false-positive result, women recounted psychosocial consequences at a range between those with normal results and women with a breast cancer diagnosis.