A study published in the journal Cancer linking bitewing dental x-rays with brain tumors has drawn as much flak for its methodology as it has publicity for its results.

Summa Health System (Akron, Ohio), one of the largest health-care networks in the state, was facing a difficulty common to organizations that provide imaging for bariatric patients: the 0.3T open MRI system at its Summa Health Center at White Pond, to which many of these patients had to be referred, was too low in field strength for certain types

Legislative efforts to require information about breast density on mammography results provided to patients have raised awareness about the varying effectiveness of mammography. However, up until recently, there has been little data on what, if anything, women with dense breast tissue should do to improve their odds of early detection of breast

The five-year forecasts are sunny for the worldwide X-ray and MR markets, according to a pair of reports from Transparency Market Research (TPM).

As thorough as they are, current discussions about securing electronic health records to protect patient privacy seldom touch on what to do in the event of a grand-scale theft of physical media that is already marked for disposal.

According a study published in the March issue of the journal Radiology, radiologists now have a comparable, non-ionizing option to CT for the detection of pulmonary embolism.

Medical publisher Elsevier is getting into the iPad game with a new application it says is the first of its kind to bridge the neuroscience digital learning worlds.

In just four years, the implementation of information systems among radiation therapy sites as an integrated component of oncology treatment has climbed from 50% to two-thirds, according to new research from IMV Medical Information Division.