Researchers in Switzerland have found that patients who undergo MR arthrography temporarily experience the most pain in the affected joints four hours after injection.
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Interactively employing computer-aided detection (CAD) technology while reading mammograms may lead to increased detection of breast masses, according to research from Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
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Cardiologists across the U.S. have been so enthralled with CT that they’ve tripled the modality’s installed base of units within cardiology practices in the past two years, according to a new report scheduled for release this month by market research firm IMV Medical Information Division.
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In the history of medical imaging turf wars, the primary battlegrounds have been in modalities such as echocardiography, musculoskeletal MRI, and nuclear cardiology. You can now add CT to the list, according to a new study that indicates CT procedure volume is spiking among nonradiologists.
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The national grassroots awareness campaign to reduce radiation dose exposure to children — especially regarding CT exams — is working, at least at two of the largest academic children’s hospitals in the U.S. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center reported that the volume of CT procedures performed by the hospitals has [...]

CHICAGO (Reuters Health), Dec 9 - The dose of radiation delivered on computed tomography (CT) can be cut by as much as 75% in adults who require a chest CT, a team at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston reported at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
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