A new article published in the Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation University of Michigan discusses why patients are unnecessarily tested for rare liver conditions, which raises concerns and costs.

GE Healthcare and Lantheus Medical Imaging have proposed a global deal for a contuniuation of the phase 3 development and global commercialization of Lantheus’s flurpiridaz F 18, a positron emission tomography (PET) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) agent for diagnosing coronary artery disease.

New technology employs iterative reconstruction to produce high-quality MR images at a rapid rate with zero diagnostic information loss. 

Last November’s presidential election ended friendships because of opposing political views, and now an MRI study shows why people’s political beliefs just won’t budge.

Thanks to advances in MRI-compatible cardiac device technology, pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) are no longer absolute contraindications for MRI exams. The devices remain relative contraindications for MRI, however, and their presence in MRI patients calls for radiologists and cardiologists to work closely together in order to both ensure patient safety and minimize legal risk.  

Researchers have recently found that there are radiation clouds that, if one were exposed to for long enough, could affect health. Data suggests that a flight across the U.S. is equivalent to getting one chest x-ray; doing so while flying through a radiation cloud would double that exposure.

Modern medical imaging technology has made for quicker diagnoses, less invasive surgeries and improved public health—and, as everyone within the industry knows, these advances are just the beginning. Cutting-edge modalities and techniques promise to let clinicians use virtual reality to find colorectal polyps or measure the shape of a prostate to determine whether or not there’s cancer.

A new laser-based camera could one day become the tool that will help physicians know who is at risk of atheroscerlosis, by providing better views of potential problem areas.