Implementing business analytics into radiology operations may seem like a daunting task, but practice leaders must remember they can use such data without building their own in-house tools from scratch.

Findings from an experimental model show that researchers were able to effectively identify bone marrow cancer (myelofibrosis) using MRI, which could result in how this disease is diagnosed moving forward. 

It's crucial for a physicial to carefully assess each patient and decide if it is appropriate to put them through medical imaging tests. The American Medical Association (AMA) Steps Forward provides physicians with a new module, listing steps to integrate clinical decision support for imaging into one's practice:

Contrast enhanced MRI found leakages in the blood-brain barrier of people with early Alzheimer’s disease is associated with cognitive decline.

Many people who deal with claustrophobia have trouble climbing into an MRI scanner, but the staff at Dignity Health Mercy Hospital in Folsom, California, are helping to relieve some of that stress. 

In an effort to create one of the most detailed maps of brain connectivity ever, psychologist Russell Poldrack climbed into an MRI machine to scan his brain for 10 minutes every Tuesday and Thursday morning for a year and a half. 

Anias and Jadon McDonald, twins who were conjoined at head and separated at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, are said to be “right on target, if not ahead of schedule” by their doctors, in regards to their craniopagus surgery.

If you find no pleasure while listening to music, fMRI data suggests that you may have a decreased amount of connectivity between certain regions in your brain.