AuntMinnie | In a study being touted as the first to use noninvasive imaging to test the efficacy of an atherosclerosis drug, researchers from Mount Sinai Medical Center and 10 other centers found that a drug called dalcetrapib reduced arterial inflammation and disease progression at...
AuntMinnie | Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values generated by MRI scans may be a promising tool to monitor early response and predict prognosis after chemotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to a study published online August 18 in Radiology. Researchers from Japan concluded that...
AuntMinnie | Using MRI, researchers have found that intra-aortic balloon pump counterpulsation prior to percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with ST segment elevation myocardial infarction does not reduce infarct size, according to a study presented on Tuesday at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) congress...
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 | 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...