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Start-up firm Ferric Contrast scores NSF award
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
MRI contrast developer Ferric Contrast has received a Small Business Technology Transfer award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop an iron-based MRI contrast agent as an alternative to gadolinium-based media.
February 6, 2018
IRadimed posts mixed results for Q4, year-end
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
MRI accessories developer IRadimed has posted mixed results for its 2017 fourth quarter and year-end.
February 6, 2018
Report: Huge differences in cost of MRI scans
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Patients seeking a routine MRI scan for back pain can pay as little as $350 or more than $5,500 at imaging facilities within a few miles of each other, according to an investigative report by WBRC-TV in Birmingham, AL.
February 6, 2018
Whole-body MRI gains momentum for oncology cases
By Rebekah Moan
Whole-body MRI is an emerging clinical tool for accurate and early assessment of oncology patients in a single, noninvasive technique, Egyptian researchers have found. It's a reliable, reproducible method that is ideal for follow-up, they added.
February 5, 2018
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NYC tourists + rental bike - helmet = trip to ER
By Brian Casey
Is the growing popularity of rental bikes in New York City driving an increase in the number of bicycle-related trauma cases being seen in the city's emergency rooms (ERs)? It might, if new information from a hospital that treats people injured in Central Park is any indication.
February 5, 2018
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10 top tips on best use of MR enterography in small bowel
By Philip Ward
Used properly, magnetic resonance enterography (MRE) can play a valuable clinical role in a variety of small-bowel disorders, according to Iranian researchers, who have revealed the 10 main lessons learned from conducting around 1,100 examinations over the past four years.
February 5, 2018
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Zika's effects hard to detect on ultrasound, MRI
By Brian Casey
A new animal study published February 5 in Nature Medicine illustrates the challenges in detecting how the Zika virus affects the fetuses of infected mothers. Researchers found that the Zika virus caused injury to the brains of fetal macaque monkeys that was hard to detect with ultrasound and even MRI.
February 5, 2018
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Radiologist arrested in deadly Indian MRI incident
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A radiologist has been arrested in connection with an incident last week at a hospital in India in which a man carrying a metal oxygen cylinder was pulled into an MRI room and killed.
February 1, 2018
Macrocyclic GBCA again shows less signal intensity in kids
By Wayne Forrest
A study from Germany in the February issue of Investigative Radiology found that the use of a linear gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA) resulted in increased signal intensity in two brain regions in pediatric patients, compared with the use of a macrocyclic GBCA.
February 1, 2018
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Report: Metal detector at Indian MRI room 'not functional'
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The metal detector designed to prevent the introduction of metal objects into the MRI suite where an Indian man was killed was "not functional," according to a new report on the incident published by the Hindustan Times.
January 31, 2018
Del. MRI center to pay $16M in contrast case
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
U.S. authorities have announced that an imaging center in Delaware will pay $16.2 million for submitting false claims for Medicare reimbursement for MRI contrast studies that weren't supervised by physicians.
January 30, 2018
MRI scan volume drops in 2017, but new purchases planned
By Wayne Forrest
Bucking a consistently upward trend, the total number of MRI procedures in the U.S. decreased in 2017 for the first time in two decades, as procedures shifted from independent standalone facilities to hospital-based imaging centers, according to a new market research report by IMV Medical Information Division.
January 30, 2018
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