The International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) announced this week it has awarded its 2016 Gold Medal to Sharmila Majumdar, PhD, professor and vice chair for research of the department of radiology and biomedical imaging at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Majumdar is also director of the Musculoskeletal and Quantitative Imaging (MQIR) group at UCSF. 

Thanks to a generous grant, a radiologist is now turning her years-old idea into a new healthcare startup. 

Federal prosecutors have dismissed an indictment against Mohamad Reza Nazemzadeh, a scientist who tried to purchase and send a coil for an MRI scanner to Iran in 2011 without first acquiring a license from the government. 

David Kampe, a local businessman, has said he is donating $3 million to Penticton Regional Hospital in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada, to help the hospital purchase a new MRI machine. 

Researchers from the University of California Irvine are teaming up with Toshiba America Medical Systems to conduct a study investigating the presence of cerebral microbleeds in football players at the high-school level as a potential precursor for CTE.

TUSTIN, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) stands in the national spotlight for high impact sports, the University of California, Irvine has partnered with Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. for a first-of-its-kind study of cerebral microbleeds (CMB) in high school football players as a potential precursor to CTE. The study will utilize Toshiba’s Vantage TitanTM 3T MR system as the key diagnostic tool, taking advantage of its non-invasive capabilities.

AMRA, a global medical technology company based out of Linköping, Sweden, has entered into a new marketing agreement with GE Healthcare, the company announced at this week’s European Congress of Radiology in Vienna, Austria. 

Numerous studies have shown evidence of gadolinium (Gd) retention in the brains of contrast MRI patients. Now, Gd is showing up in the San Francisco Bay, particularly in an area immediately surrounded by hospitals and other facilities that use Gd-based contrast agents.