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ATLANTA -- Rob Beanlands, MD, director of the National Cardiac PET Centre and the Molecular Function and Imaging Program at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, sought to convince physicians that FDG PET is among the best choices in imagining modalities for the assessment of myocardial viability, during an imaging symposium at the 59th annual American College of Cardiology (ACC) conference on March 15.
Humanetics obtained a global exclusive license from the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine for patents covering the use of BIO 300 as a medical radiation countermeasure.
“Ultrasound is the established modality of choice to evaluate the female pelvis, so why do patients with pelvic masses or pain get a CT scan? In my opinion, doing a CT scan first for female patients with lower abdominal pain is dangerous and wasteful, a drain of much-needed healthcare dollars,” wrote Beryl Benacerraf, MD, in an editorial published in the March issue of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.
PET/CT with 18F-FDG needs to be accurately interpreted since higher FDG uptake is seen in axillary lymph nodes after vaccination against pandemic swine-origin influenza A (H1N1), according to a study published online Feb. 26 in European Radiology.
Omnipaque (iohexol, GE Healthcare), a low osmolar iodinated contrast agent has the potential to be better tolerated by patients than the more widely used high osmolality iodinated oral contrast agent, meglumine sodium diatrizoate (Gastroview, Mallinckrodt) for CT, according to a study presented Feb.21 at the Abdominal Radiology Course Meeting held by the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiology and the Society of Uroradiology in Orlando.
Sponsored by Toshiba America Medical Systems, the Society of Cardiovascular CT (SCCT) is now accepting submissions for the fourth annual Young Investigator Awards.
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.
The FDA today launched an initiative to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from three types of medical imaging procedures: CT, nuclear medicine studies and fluoroscopy.
Siemens Healthcare will supply diagnostics imaging equipment to all Ministry of Health hospitals (approximately 100) across Iraq.
For ruling out coronary artery disease (CAD), multidetector CT (16-slice or more) is more accurate than MRI, according to a retrospective study in today’s Annals of Internal Medicine.
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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.
Image analysis and interpretation company Definiens has released its LymphExpert Version 2.0 for sale in Europe after receiving the CE Mark approval.
Performing a high-resolution CT on non-smoking women age 24 to 53 with a collapsed lung can be a cost-effective screening for lymphangioleiomyomatosis, according to a study published online Feb. 18 in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
Siemens Healthcare has introduced its Excel Edition 16- and 64-slice CT scanners, the Somatom Emotion and Somatom Definition AS CT, which are reportedly equipped with features to help reduce radiation dose.
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).
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.
The use of advanced imaging modalities such as MRI, CT and PET have “increased dramatically” in physician offices and hospital emergency and outpatient departments over the last decade, according to an annual report on U.S. health issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
A new clinical decision rule identifying children at two levels of risk has been developed by researchers to facilitate a physicians’ decision for administering CT scans to children presenting with minor head injuries, according to a study published online Feb. 8 in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
According to an opinion article published in the February issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology, attention to radiation safety in the field of diagnostic radiology has recently increased, and yet, even at low levels, radiation can still present harm to the patient.
CT is being utilized as an adjunctive tool in the evaluation of patients presenting with complicated H1N1 flu cases in hospitals, which can be positive for both the technology and medical imaging agent manufacturers, said life sciences market research group Kalorama Information.
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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.