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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Sarah Silverman details negative experience undergoing mammogram, breast ultrasound

Comedian Sarah Silverman, 48, shared an Instagram post Thursday, Feb. 7, about numerous things that troubled her about her experience undergoing a mammogram and breast ultrasound. 

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A Careful RIS Replacement Emerges as a Key Business-Builder

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

If you’ve seen one data center, you’ve seen them all. That’s what Charles Rivers believed, at least.

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A Brooklyn EMR Grows Toward Its Full Potential

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

Like every American academic healthcare institution, SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., is a beehive of activity in three overlapping yet distinct areas of focus—patient care, physician education and medical research. 

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Transforming Radiologist Workflow: A Q&A on Fujifilm’s REiLI Initiative

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

Bill Lacy, vice president of medical informatics at FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., spoke with Radiology Business about AI’s impact on radiologist workflow and what the company has planned for HIMSS19.

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McGill University receives Canada's first whole-body 7T MRI scanner

The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital—also known as The Neuro—of McGill University in Montreal, Québec, Canada, has installed the country’s first whole-body 7-Tesla MRI scanner.

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AI trained to interpret pediatric x-rays based on an entire series of images

Researchers used a convolutional neural network (CNN) to classify acute and non-acute findings in pediatric elbow x-rays, according to new research published in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence. The team’s recurrent neural network was able to interpret an entire series of images together, mimicking the decision-making process of a human radiologist.

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SNMMI, ACNM oppose changes to amount of training required to administer radiopharmaceuticals

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) and American College of Nuclear Medicine (ACNM) submitted a joint statement to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) opposing potential changes in the NRC’s training and experience requirements for authorized users to administer radiopharmaceuticals.  

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How to improve prostate cancer detection during MRI-targeted transrectal US biopsies

Researchers have determined that increasing the number of core biopsy samples obtained using MRI-targeted transrectal ultrasound biopsy can lead to the detection of more clinically significant prostate cancers.

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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.

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.