The use of gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs) in MRI brain studies was long thought to be safe for patients without severe renal insufficiency, but in 2014, researchers started finding evidence that GBCAs can leave traces of gadolinium (GD) behind in the brain.

Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) has been found to be more efficient than myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) for emergency department (ED) patients presenting with acute chest pain, but many physicians are still turning to MPI, according to a study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Though routine head CTs can often recognize or predict dental disease in the periphery of images, doctor’s aren’t reporting complications that could raise a patient’s risk of coronary artery disease, stroke and some cancers, according to data out of Boston hospitals.

Choosing a specialty is one of the biggest decisions medical students ever make, and there’s no one way to do it. Stephanie K. Nguyen, a medical student at Temple University in Philadelphia, wrote a column about her experience choosing interventional radiology, breaking it down into the four considerations she used to make that decision.

A visual score based on entorhinal cortex atrophy (ERICA) can accurately indicate probable Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study published in Radiology.

A pair of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) radiologists have been charged with prescribing controlled substances to non-patients over the course of two years, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has reported.

The FDA has authorized, with special controls, the first direct-to-consumer (DTC) test to report specific BRCA1/BRCA2 breast cancer gene mutations. The authorization means 23andMe, the personal genetics company, can now provide its customers with information on three variants found in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes associated with a higher risk of breast, ovarian and prostate cancer. No prescription is required.

Phone calls directed to radiology reporting rooms interrupt clinicians’ work more than 90 percent of the time and could be decreasing reporting accuracy in a big way, a trio of British researchers said this month in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology.