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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Mobile health provider offering at-home X-rays and ultrasounds expands into new states

EZaccessMD offers teleconsults with board-certified physicians coupled with mobile diagnostics, hoping to help health plan holders limit costs on facility-based visits. 

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Structural MRI shows promise predicting relapse among patients battling opioid addiction

The experimental diagnostic method combines imaging and machine learning to seek patterns in functional connectivity and brain structure data. 

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Annual MRI surveillance of low-risk prostate cancer drops biopsies while preserving life expectancy

NYU imaging experts created a simulation model to determine the most cost-effective method of monitoring the disease. 

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Liver MR imaging specialist eyes $75M initial public offering on the Nasdaq

Founded in 2012, Perspectum's flagship FDA-cleared software LiverMultiScan aids in the detection of disease using scans of the organ.

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Is structural racism preventing Black and Latina patients from receiving the best breast cancer care?

Researchers sought to answer this question using data from the Breast Cancer Care in Chicago study of patients treated at disproportionate share hospitals and other institutions.

Screening with MRI, targeted biopsies could potentially cut prostate cancer overdiagnoses in half

The reduced biopsy rate and potential downstream savings from less overtreatment offer cost savings that may offset MRI's price tag, experts wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Portable MRI-maker Hyperfine to go public as $580M company, plus more radiology vendor news

Also, Philips collaborates on new ultra-fast MRI protocol, Intelerad acquiring Heart Imaging Technologies, and 2 new FDA clearances.

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ACR releases new guidance to help radiologists manage incidental lung findings on CT scans

The 13-page white paper touches on everything from specific findings and reporting terms, to balancing a patients' risk and benefits.

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Health Imaging
Nearly $800,000 settlement offered to family of man who died during MRI exam

The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.

Cardiovascular Business
Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

Cardiovascular Business
‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.