The American College of Radiology’s (ACR) Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI) has released the official program for the RLI inaugural event, to be held July 12-15, at the Kellogg School of Management on Northwestern University’s Evanston, Ill., campus.
Medicare beneficiaries who underwent coronary CT angiography (CCTA) in nonacute settings had a higher likelihood of undergoing subsequent invasive cardiac procedures and have increased coronary artery disease spending compared with patients who underwent stress testing, according to a study published March 7 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In response, several researchers submitted letters supporting and challenging the author’s findings.
Revelations about the actual cause of myocardial infarction have led researchers to seek out new ways to diagnose, evaluate, treat and prevent coronary artery disease, specifically through imaging vulnerable plaque.
New developments in tracers could make cardiac PET the more precise approach for absolute quantification of myocardial blood flow.
Inflammation, as assessed by 18F-FDG-PET uptake and histology, is increased in plaques containing high-risk morphological (HRM) features and rises with increasing number of HRM, according to a study in the January issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging. Study authors suggested that data support the concept that inflammation accumulates relative to the burden of morphological abnormalities.
Fundamental differences between diagnostic imaging and other areas of medicine drive the need for an individual framework for the assessment of the value of diagnostic tests, according to a commentary authored by the Working Group on Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) for Imaging and published in the December issue of Radiology.
The final diagnostic form the evolving hybrid PET/MR tree will take is uncertain, but it has already begun to blossom. Thus, the low-hanging clinical fruit has lured a number of medical centers to early adoption. Experts weigh in on the potential that PET/MR may hold for various neurologic, oncologic and cardiovascular conditions.
Radiologists’ recommendations for follow-up imaging generated 5.3 percent of chest and abdominal CT, brain and lumbar spine MRI and body PET exams, with pulmonary nodule evaluation identified as the most common cause for follow-up imaging, according to a study published online Nov. 15 in Radiology.
Health Imaging will host a series of free virtual conferences focused on effective solutions and strategies to meet the economic, informatics and regulatory needs of imaging stakeholders.
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have developed an imaging probe that may accurately diagnose Staphylococcus aureus infection in the heart valves, according to findings published online Aug. 21 in Nature Medicine.
Siemens Canada Healthcare has received a Health Canada medical device license for the Biograph mMR, a whole-body molecular MR with simultaneous MR and PET data acquisition.
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has awarded five physicians with one of two grants—the Junior Faculty Career Research Training Award and the Residents/Fellows in Radiation Oncology Research Seed Grant Award.
For 22 years, U.S. News & World Report has issued a report card grading the nation’s hospitals for patient care and acknowledging 50 hospitals as the best. This year, as in years past, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Mayo Clinic have been chosen as top performers for demonstrating superior care in at least six of the 16 specialties. Cleveland Clinic reclaims its position as number one for heart care for the 17th year in a row.
Siemens Healthcare has received the CE mark for its Biograph mMR system, a whole-body molecular MR with simultaneous MR and PET data acquisition technology.
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have awarded researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., a $1.2 million grant to develop software and patient-specific virtual phantoms to calculate and track patient radiation exposure from CT imaging.
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