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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Friendly reminder: MRI is really cool

Radiologists already know this all too well: MRI is cool. You use the technology to give physicians a glimpse inside the human body without ever having to cut it open. 

Brain wave recordings could relieve migraine, hypertension

Playing back the brain’s own abnormal electrical waves back to itself as sound waves can help those electrical wave sort themselves out, suggests new research from Wake Forest School of Medicine. 

Patients with pacemakers and cardiac defibrillators undergoing I.5-T MRI exams: Is it safe?

More than three million individuals in the U.S. live with cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) such as pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). But what happens when one of them need an MRI? Is it safe? 

Radiologist or mind reader? MRI spots emotions in human brain

OK, medical imaging hasn't reached a point where it can answer for you when the physician asks, "How are you feeling today?" But researchers at Duke University are able to spot emotions as they flicker across the brain using functional MRI, according to a new study release Sept. 21.

Disposable colonoscope receives FDA 501(k) clearance

GI View Ltd. have received FDA 501(k) clearance for their Aer-O-Scope Colonoscope System, which is disposable and self-propelled with a joystick control.

Is this the end? Machine learning and 2 other threats to radiology’s future

Radiology is one of the cornerstones of modern healthcare, but according to a new analysis published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology, machine learning could potentially end the specialty as we know it within the next decade. 

Neutron Therapeutics, Finnish hospital group partner to offer nuclear cancer treatment

Neutron Therapeutics and Helsinki University Hospital (HUH) have partnered up to offer nuBeam suite for boron-neutron capture therapy (BNCT) at the hospital's cancer center. The partnership will utilize and further develop BNCT to be used in clinical settings.

Video training is useful in pediatric ultrasound

It turns out video instruction could be just as useful as in-person instruction for some types of imaging training, according to a study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology. 

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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.