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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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. 

Study Shows Web-Based Tutorials Are an Effective Tool for Teaching Technical Skills in Pediatric Ultrasound

Leesburg, VA, Sept. 16, 2016— Web-based tutorials are an effective method of teaching technical skills in pediatric ultrasound to radiology fellow and resident trainees, according to a study published in the September 2016 issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR).

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Around the web

Health Imaging
American College of Radiology announces significant expansion of Lung Cancer Screening Registry

The ACR hopes these changes, including the addition of diagnostic performance feedback, will help reduce the number of patients with incidental nodules lost to follow-up each year.

Health Imaging
AI reduces CT lung cancer screening workload by nearly 80%

And it can do so with almost 100% accuracy as a first reader, according to a new large-scale analysis.

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.