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The National Insitutes of Health's Molecular imaging and contrast agent database (MICAD) has added 13 new (PET, SPECT, MRI) agents.
A high percentage of CT and MRI examinations are not meeting appropriateness criteria and subsequently yielding negative results, which suggests a need for tools to help primary care physicians hone their imaging decision requests, according to a recent article in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
For patients with high-risk, potentially operable rectal cancer, therapy with preoperative chemotherapy prior to standard chemoradiation and surgical resection is a reasonable treatment with acceptable safety and promising long-term outcomes, based on a study published in the March issue of the Lancet Oncology.
Project ProSPECTus is attempting to develop a new technology for next-generation SPECT imaging which will shorten imaging time, lower radiation doses, improve future diagnosis of cancer and the probability of successful cancer therapy while enabling a higher throughput of patients in hospitals.
Written by Kaitlyn Dmyterko
Concern about the cancer risk from low medical level radiation, particularly low-dose radiation delivered from CT scans, has been growing in the healthcare community.
A high percentage of MRI and CT examinations are not meeting appropriateness criteria and those that don't typically yield negative results, suggesting a need for tools to help primary care physicians improve the quality of their imaging referral decisions, according to a study published online today in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR).
iCAD has reported steady profits for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2009, but it wasn’t enough to put the company into the black for the year, which ended Dec. 31.
Siemens Healthcare has implemented its Magnetom Avanto 1.5 Tesla MRI at Watford General Hospital in Hertfordshire, England, for general musculoskeletal, neurological, breast and renal scanning.
The American College of Radiology (ACR) has launched an online nuclear medicine and PET accreditation application program to potentially reduce the time for facilities to become accredited.
Contrast-enhanced MRI can bring forth statistically significant differences between rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis that might play an important role in differentiating and treating the two diseases, according to a recent study published online in the March issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
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Written by Justine Cadet
ATLANTA--In order for providers to eliminate top revenue drains, they must adopt better coding techniques and integrate the coding team into the hospital setting, said Karna Morrow, from Coding Strategies in Atlanta, during her presentation at the American College of Cardiovascular Administrators (ACCA) conference on March 12.
Setred introduced its 3D visualization solution developed for the medical industry, the Setred MD20-3D display and Samurai 3D medical imaging software, at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2010, in Vienna, from March 4–8.
MRI screening for women considered to be at high or moderate risk for breast cancer is more effective in the detection of the disease in the early stages than either half-yearly digital ultrasound and/or annual mammography, according to a recent prospective study published online Feb. 22 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Surgery with molecular fluorescence imaging using a dual fluorescent plus a magnetic marker decreases residual cancer, improves survival and MRI-guided clinical staging, according to two studies published in the March issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Written by Justine Cadet
With the plethora of clinical data emerging at this month’s American College of Cardiology annual meeting, the sessions are seeking to provide clinicians and administrators with methods to improve the quality of evidence-based care.
In advance of today’s House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on medical radiation, the Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance yesterday announced CT manufacturers will begin installing new radiation dose safeguards on scanners as soon as by the end of this year. The American College of Radiology (ACR) yesterday also announced that at today’s hearing it will call for the mandatory accreditation of all advanced imaging and radiation oncology providers.
Toshiba America Medical Systems has named a new vice president (VP) of marketing and strategic development, promoting Doug Ryan to the position from senior drector of the CT business unit.
Non-invasive MR Imaging is highly accurate in the preoperative characterization and local staging of testicular neoplasms and is a useful diagnostic tool for the evaluation of testicular disease, according to a study published in the March issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
The combination of MR imaging and mammography can provide a cost-effective way of improving life expectancy for women who have an increased risk of breast cancer, according to a study published online today in the March issue of Radiology.
Researchers at Duke University in Durham, N.C., have used functional MRI to demonstrate how people make decisions about attractiveness and what that attractiveness is worth. The research was published online Feb. 16 in the Journal of Neuroscience.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.