The interventional radiology practice of an academic medical center has identified four challenges to securing informed consent from patients or their medical decision-makers. 

In pediatric care settings, hybrid PET/MR imaging combines “exquisite soft-tissue information obtained by MR imaging with functional information provided by PET.”

Leslee Shaw, PhD, director of The Blavatnik Family Women’s Health Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, explains how cardiac computed tomography (CT) can be used to assess coronary plaques.

Applied physicists have developed a portable MRI system that can screen young tennis players for wrist injuries in a minivan or suchlike passenger vehicle. 

Using point-of-care ultrasound in emergency settings does not lead to overutilization of follow-up imaging with cross-sectional CT, MRI or additional ultrasounds. 

Engineers detailed their prototype, which is roughly the size of a small stack of quarters, in Nature Biomedical Engineering.

California-based health system Kaiser Permanente was slammed by a surge in COVID-19 cases during the first quarter of 2022, playing a role in a nearly $1 billion loss in the first three months of the year.