imagingBiz | It’s a good thing patients in MRI scanners are lying down, it turns out. The authors of a study published online Thursday, in Current Biology, have sorted out the root of reported dizziness and vertigo reported by patients undergoing magnetic resonance imaging. MRI systems affect...
AuntMinnie | Breast cancer MRI screening among high-risk, underserved women can significantly decrease diagnostic costs and increase patient compliance with follow-up appointments compared with general-risk mammography screenings, according to a study presented September 20 at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Conference on the...
DiagnosticImaging | The use of production control techniques including statistical analysis, queuing theory, and statistical process control yielded big MRI efficiency gains at a 1,200-bed German hospital, say the authors of a new study in the September issue of the Journal of the American College...
AuntMinnie | Appropriateness criteria developed in 2009 by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) performed "fairly well" for certain indications, reducing the number of inappropriate imaging exams, according to a study presented at ASNC's annual meeting in...
DiagnosticImaging | Johns Hopkins researchers reviewing a decade of patient records of those who underwent spinal angiography found the procedure to be safe and effective, they reported online this week in the journal Neurology. The procedure, an X-ray of the blood vessels near the spinal cord,...