A new imaging technique for carotid artery assessment can reveal key information about a patient’s risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a new study published in Radiology. Could it go on to be as popular as ultrasound?
A mobile breast cancer screening unit will soon tour the United Arab Emiratesto offer free consultations, mammography screenings and genetic testing for men and women.
PET imaging with 18F-fluorofuranylnorprogesterone (18F-FFNP) could help specialists treat patients with estrogen-receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer, according to a new study published in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is so user-friendly that middle-school students can perform scans of acceptable clinical quality and then pass along their skills to classmates.
Comedian Sarah Silverman, 48, shared an Instagram post Thursday, Feb. 7, about numerous things that troubled her about her experience undergoing a mammogram and breast ultrasound.
Using an advanced PET imaging technique with a carbon-11-based radiotracer, researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore found as association with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS) and widespread brain inflammation.
Pediatric imaging centers switching from standard head CT protocols to dual-energy CT can expect such improvements as fewer artifacts, lower radiation doses, equivalent or slightly improved image noise and no significant difference in signal-to-noise ratio.
The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital—also known as The Neuro—of McGill University in Montreal, Québec, Canada, has installed the country’s first whole-body 7-Tesla MRI scanner.
Academic pediatric facilities expose pediatric patients to lower CT radiation doses than nonacademic pediatric facilities and all adult facilities, according to a new study published in Radiology.
Women are at a greater risk than men for early tau deposition, a marker of pre-symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease identifiable on PET imaging, according to a study published online in JAMA Neurology.
Victims of intimate partner violence undergo four times more imaging than non-victims, according to research published Feb. 5 in Radiology. What can radiologists do to help them?
In a sit-down interview before Super Bowl LIII, President Trump called the NFL “dangerous” and said he would “have a hard time with” letting his 12-year-old son play football due to safety concerns.
