AuntMinnie | It may seem intuitive enough that 64-detector-row CT is faster for multiple-casualty trauma than four-detector-row machines, but minutes make a big difference when patients are seriously injured, according to researchers of a new study in the September issue of the American Journal of...
DiagnosticImaging | Coronary artery calcium (CAC) scores based on cardiac CT scans can stratify the risk of heart disease among those without symptoms, a new study reports. That’s something studies of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) can’t do, according to a team led by Michael Blaha, MD,...
ImagingEconomics | The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, and Philips have collaborated to develop imaging technology that could be used to identify the start and cause of an infectious disease epidemic. The purpose of the suite is to study pathogens that require biosafety level 3...
imagingBiz | Health-care IT professionals are no strangers to the complexities that arise from managing ever-growing archives. One particular subset of the data stored across the enterprise, however, might be overlooked: email archives. Although one analysis by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), Milford, Massachusetts—a market-research and...
AuntMinnie | For surveillance of previously detected lung nodules, CT radiation dose can be cut to approximately 3% of the original exam dose, concludes a new study in the September edition of the American Journal of Roentgenology. The dose savings are important because lung cancer screening...