The shortage of iodinated contrast media that has rattled U.S. radiology since early May didn’t come from nowhere.

Two dozen academic physicians from around the U.S. with expertise in point-of-care ultrasound—and no vested interest in POCUS industry players—recently tested and compared four commercially available POCUS handhelds.

Fewer than 40% of rural counties in the U.S. can offer residents any access to point-of-care ultrasound, while nearly 90% of their metropolitan counterparts have POCUS aplenty. 

Two emerging MRI techniques show promise as all-in-one imaging tests for patients with pain in and below the lower back due to changes in the sacroiliac joint.

The FDA has greenlit a whole-body MRI machine that uses deep learning and advanced image processing to wring “elevated image quality” from a magnet with only 0.55 Tesla field strength.

The FDA is notifying patients and referrers of another breast-imaging service’s slide into noncompliance with regulatory standards for image quality.

“Visual techniques are not enough to correctly classify nodes in patients after COVID-19 vaccination,” experts shared in EJR.

The new analysis focused on transcatheter edge-to-edge repair and left atrial appendage occlusion procedures.

The condition of brain fog that some COVID-19 patients experience could be caused by an immune response to the virus.