Edward-Elmhurst Health is the first health system in the Chicagoland area to offer molecular breast imaging and comes just in time for Illinois' newly enacted breast density notification law, according to a report published Jan. 14 by Crain’s Chicago Business.

Fluoroscopy-guided lumbar spine injections expose patients to less radiation than CT-guided procedures, but results in higher exposure for physicians, reported authors of a Jan. 8 study published in Radiology.

Radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy resulted in better five-year survival in patients with early-stage pediatric Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) than chemotherapy alone, reported authors of a Jan. 3 study published in JAMA Oncology.

Brain imaging, using MRI, CT and ultrasound, may predict neurodevelopmental health in infants who have been exposed to the virus in utero, according to research published Dec. 12 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Free non-invasive prostate cancer screenings using multi-parametric MRI—which combines up to three different types of scans for a clearer image of the prostate—may soon be introduced in the U.K., according to a recent report by BBC News.

Using hyperpolarized xenon-129 (HXe) MR imaging, clinicians can better detect early lung disease in smokers before it progresses to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a Dec. 3 study published in Academic Radiology.

Shear-wave elastography (SWE) may help distinguish musculoskeletal soft-tissue lesions as benign or malignant in conjunction with conventional ultrasound, according to research published online Nov. 27 in Radiology.

“We need new, improved methods in which as few contrast agents as possible affect as much of the signal-emitting substance, which is typically water," said study author Leif Schröder, PhD, a researcher at the Leibniz Research Institute of Molecular Pharmacology (FMP) in Berlin.