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GE settles with Omniscan critic
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare and a Danish radiologist have settled their war of words over GE's Omniscan contrast agent, with GE agreeing to drop a libel suit against the physician.
February 25, 2010
Kopp launches GaussAlert alarm system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Ferromagnetic detector developer Kopp Development has launched GaussAlert, a new safety tool for MRI suites.
February 24, 2010
MRI plus film-screen mammo screening works for BRCA1 carriers
By Kate Madden Yee
For women who are BRCA1 gene carriers, a combination of MRI and film-screen mammography is the most clinically effective combination for finding breast cancer. But it also costs more, according to a study published in the March issue of Radiology.
February 22, 2010
MRI enterography shows shortcomings for Crohn's disease
By Wayne Forrest
Although MRI enterography can diagnose important incidental findings in a minority of patients with suspected or known Crohn's disease, Dutch researchers have concluded that a substantial number of patients experience unnecessary morbidity because of additional examinations of benign or normal conditions.
February 22, 2010
Coronary CTA and MR MPI have complementary roles
By Eric Barnes
Coronary CT angiography (CTA) and MR myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) work best as a team for evaluating chest pain patients with suspected coronary artery disease, according to a new study published online in Radiology.
February 21, 2010
Contrast-enhanced MRI could help distinguish arthritis
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Contrast-enhanced MRI may help physicians differentiate between rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis in the hand and wrist, enabling more targeted therapies, according to a study in the March issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
February 18, 2010
CDC report: MRI, CT, PET use spikes in physician offices, ER
By Kate Madden Yee
The use of advanced diagnostic imaging in physician offices and emergency departments has increased dramatically over the past decade, according to a report issued this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics.
February 17, 2010
Survey eyes device safety during imaging
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The National Council on Aging said that communication about the safety of medical imaging for patients with electronic implantable devices is often inadequate.
February 16, 2010
Case report: Imaging tracks course of H1N1 in girl
By Cynthia E. Keen
Texas researchers have published a case report demonstrating how medical imaging exams offer insight into the physiological changes wrought by the H1N1 virus in a 12-year-old girl who died of the disease.
February 11, 2010
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Contrast MRI helps guide stem cell therapy for myeloma
By Wayne Forrest
Researchers from France have found that whole-body dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI can help assess treatment response in patients receiving stem cell therapy for multiple myeloma by providing quantitative analysis of bone marrow and focal lesion enhancement.
February 10, 2010
Congress eyes radiation dose; Colombini settlement details emerge
By Brian Casey
February 8, 2010
MRI shows impact of video games on brain regions
By Wayne Forrest
Researchers are using MRI to see how two regions of the brain respond to playing video games, with the hope of using that functional information to craft training and rehabilitative exercises for both healthy individuals and neurologically impaired patients.
February 8, 2010
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