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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FDA green-lights Konica wireless DR

The FDA has cleared Konica Minoltas Aero DR wireless flat panel detector.

MITA asks CMS to reconsider coverage of PET tracers

The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) has requested that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reconsider its national non-coverage decision for PET tracers and remove the exclusionary language that denies coverage for new PET imaging agents.

Organizations blast imaging cuts in Obamas budget

The Access to Medical Imaging Coalition, American College of Radiology and the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance have protested the Obama Administrations proposed budget for 2013, which contains imaging cuts projected to save $820 million over 10 years. The groups argued that the cuts would restrict access to imaging, raise costs and impact manufacturing jobs.

Study: Adaptive RT proves easier than expected in correcting IMRT

Adaptive radiotherapy (ART) for head and neck cancer treatment may solve some of the problems inherent to intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and benefit patient with less technical difficulty than previously believed, according to preliminary findings released online Feb. 9 in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics.

Senators hold budget offices feet to fire on unique device identifier

Three senators have called on the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to either release its stalled rule on the unique device identification (UDI) system for medical devices or provide a status report, and quickly.

Four cardiac CT scanners approved for use in U.K.

The U.K.s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has assessed and approved four cardiac CT scanners for use by the National Health Service (NHS) to help diagnose and manage patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) who are difficult to image.

JAMA: Risk of death from breast cancer higher among older patients

Among postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, increasing age was associated with a higher risk of death from breast cancer regardless of competing mortality and independent of tumor and treatment characteristics, according to a study in the Feb. 8 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Cancer: RT may not prolong life for some lung cancer patients

Elderly lung cancer patients receiving radiation therapy (RT) after surgical resection may not have improved survival from the treatment, according to a study published online Feb. 13 in Cancer. The findings suggest that physicians should not routinely use radiation after surgery to treat lung cancer that is advanced but has not widely spread, at least in older patients.

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Radiology Business
Shift toward imaging outside the hospital could save billions

Harvard’s David A. Rosman, MD, MBA, explains how moving imaging outside of hospitals could save billions of dollars for U.S. healthcare.

Cardiovascular Business
‘A significant milestone’: First US patients receive doses of new PET radiotracer for CAD

Back in September, the FDA approved GE HealthCare’s new PET radiotracer, flurpiridaz F-18, for patients with known or suspected CAD. It is seen by many in the industry as a major step forward in patient care. 

Cardiovascular Business
Continuation of 99mTc-PYP shortage prompts need for alternative cardiac amyloidosis imaging

After three years of intermittent shortages of nuclear imaging tracer technetium-99m pyrophosphate, there are no signs of the shortage abating.