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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Zotec Partners enters agreement with Medical Administrative Professionals

Zotec Partners, a medical billing and practice management company based out of Indianapolis, Ind., has entered into an exclusive revenue cycle management agreement with Medical Administrative Professionals (MAP). 

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Q&A: Analytical Informatics co-founder and CEO Christopher Meenan on starting a successful health IT company

Christopher Meenan is the co-founder and CEO of Analytical Informatics, a Baltimore-based health IT startup. Meenan spoke with RadiologyBusiness.com about the healthcare industry, the future of peer review software, and how his career path changed forever thanks to becoming good friends with a radiologist.

Guns, mobsters, and virtual reality: 360-degree film directed by radiologist

Career Opportunities in Organized Crime is a new 360-degree film directed by radiologist Alex Oshmyansky, MD, PhD. It is one of the first—possibly even the first—feature length virtual reality film. 

$61 million imaging study launches in Britain

A $61 million health imaging study launched this week in Britain, aiming to “transform the way scientists study a wide range of diseases, including dementia, arthritis, cancer, heart attacks and strokes.”

Yale researchers develop laser imaging system

Researchers from Yale University in New Haven, Conn., have developed a new laser imaging system that reduces image “speckle” and examines the structure of biological tissue. 

Researchers to use Toshiba MRI system to study football-related brain injuries

Researchers from the University of California Irvine are teaming up with Toshiba America Medical Systems to conduct a study investigating the presence of cerebral microbleeds in football players at the high-school level as a potential precursor for CTE.

Toshiba MRI System Tapped for Landmark UCI Study on Cerebral Microbleeds in High School Football Players

TUSTIN, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) stands in the national spotlight for high impact sports, the University of California, Irvine has partnered with Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. for a first-of-its-kind study of cerebral microbleeds (CMB) in high school football players as a potential precursor to CTE. The study will utilize Toshiba’s Vantage TitanTM 3T MR system as the key diagnostic tool, taking advantage of its non-invasive capabilities.

AI and big data join forces to improve radiology

Physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston will soon have the capability to compare a patient’s symptoms, tests and history with data insights from a vast population of other patients—all using AI technology—as part of the hospital’s new Clinical Data Science Center.

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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.