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...
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...
AuntMinnie | Manual quantification of stenosis suffers from interreader variability, which can affect interpretation and comparison of results. Software-based automated techniques can do a much better and more efficient job, according to a pair of recent studies. In one study, researchers from the University of Aachen...
AuntMinnie | A new test may be able to spot people at high risk of stroke, although it's too early to be excited, researchers said Wednesday. Yet some already are. That's because the test is able to separate people with clogged neck, or carotid, arteries into...