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Smart Choice MRI promotes low-cost MRI scans

By Wayne Forrest

With insurance premiums and out-of-pocket expenses continuing to escalate for most healthcare consumers, one company is trying to make MRI scans more accessible and considerably more affordable -- at $600 or less per scan.

January 31, 2016

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FDA clears Siemens' MR surface coil

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Siemens Healthcare has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for a new surface coil for MR prostate imaging.

January 28, 2016

AuntMinnie.com MRI Insider

By Wayne Forrest

January 26, 2016

Fatty liver linked to heart failure in obese patients

By Kate Madden Yee

Fatty liver is an independent risk factor for heart failure in obese patients -- that is, those with a body mass index of 30 or higher, according to a new study published online January 26 in Radiology. The finding suggests that concrete interventions to stave off nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, also called hepatic steatosis, could help these patients stay healthy.

January 26, 2016

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Gadolinium levels rise in SF Bay; news from Arab Health; personnel and IT issues

January 25, 2016

New MRI surgery goes off without a hitch in Ill.

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

A facility in Illinois has successfully completed an intraoperative MRI surgical procedure -- only the second in the state.

January 25, 2016

MRI use causes gadolinium levels to rise in SF Bay

A new study has found that levels of gadolinium have been rising steadily in the waters of San Francisco Bay over the past two decades. The study attributes the rising levels to growing use of gadolinium for scientific and medical applications, in particular as a contrast agent for MRI scanning.

January 25, 2016

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AHRA, Toshiba announce Putting Patients First grant winners

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The seven winners of the 2016 Putting Patients First grants by AHRA and Toshiba America Medical Systems have been announced.

January 24, 2016

Cardiac perfusion PET/MRI may be more accurate than SPECT

By Wayne Forrest

Perfusion imaging with PET/MRI could offer a "comprehensive myocardial ischemic evaluation" with shorter scan times than SPECT and a lower radiation dose for patients, according to a pilot study from Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.

January 24, 2016

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fMRI links high-risk kids and depression

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Functional MRI (fMRI) has identified distinctive brain differences in children who have a family history of depression and are at high risk for developing the condition.

January 21, 2016

Sonographer, heal thyself; make your MRI patients happier; mammo skeptics blast Congress

January 20, 2016

FDA clears Siemens' Magnetom Amira MRI scanner

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Siemens Healthcare's Magnetom Amira 1.5-tesla MRI unit.

January 20, 2016

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