The final diagnostic form the evolving hybrid PET/MR tree will take is uncertain, but it has already begun to blossom. Thus, the low-hanging clinical fruit has lured a number of medical centers to early adoption. Experts weigh in on the potential that PET/MR may hold for various neurologic, oncologic and cardiovascular conditions.

This issue highlights the emergence of PET/MR, which follows the introduction of SPECT/CT and PET/CT that have convincingly shown that multimodality imaging can result in significantly improved disease characterization.

Molecular breast imaging is proving its worth as an low-dose alternative to MRI for women with dense breasts.

While 18F-FDG PET is the gold standard for evaluating and managing patients with lung cancer, recent data have shown it also could be beneficial in diagnosing, staging and monitoring of small cell lung cancer.

The journal Orthopedics This Week has presented 10 companies with its 2011 Best New Technology for Spine award. The winning entrants received the honors at the annual meeting of the North American Spine Society in Chicago earlier this month.

Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando, Fla., has installed Siemens Luminos Agile fluoroscopy and radiography system.

Source: TeraReconParticipation in colorectal cancer screening was significantly better using CT colonography compared with conventional colonoscopy, suggesting that CT colonography could be useful as an additional primary screening test, according to research published online Nov. 15 in The Lancet Oncology.

Renown Health, a not-for-profit integrated health network in northern Nevada, is being sued by doctors at a Reno cardiology practice who allege that Renown attempted to defraud the doctors out of millions of dollars using deceptive tactics during negotiations to buy the cardiology practice, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal.