Eric Barnes[email protected]Residents/FellowsForeign medical graduates can't find residencies in U.S., CanadaInternational medical graduates are having a hard time finding residency positions in the U.S. and Canada -- and if they'd known about the situation, they might not have left their home countries, according to a study in Risk Management and Healthcare Policy.June 26, 2014CTNodule size matters in Italian CT lung cancer screening studyItalian researchers believe they have struck a good balance in CT lung cancer screening by following up suspicious nodules at a slightly larger size threshold than that used in previous studies. By only following up nodules 5 mm and larger rather than 4 mm, they achieved good sensitivity with fewer false positives, according to a new study in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.June 25, 2014CTLung cancer screening of seniors: Should CMS regulate?A just-published proposal in the Annals of Internal Medicine seeks to balance the benefits and harms of CT lung cancer screening by limiting the screening of Medicare beneficiaries to lung cancer screening centers that would be accredited based on still-evolving society-based guidelines.June 23, 2014CTNew knowledge changes use of CT in guiding stroke treatmentIntravenous tissue plasminogen activator works better and is harmful to fewer patients than most doctors think, and, in any case, stroke treatment shouldn't be denied just because CT perfusion says the ischemic area is too large, according to a presentation earlier this month at the International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT.June 22, 2014CTTexas technologists oppose licensure removalThe Texas Society of Radiologic Technologists said it opposes a recent move by a commission appointed by the Texas Legislature to eliminate licensure requirements for radiologic technologists.June 19, 2014CTISCT's Rubin issues challenge to image processing firmsAdvances in image processing have given radiologists new tools to find the abnormalities they're looking for. But Dr. Geoffrey Rubin believes that radiologists need better tools -- and quickly -- before they drown in a flood of data being produced by the new generation of CT scanners.June 19, 2014CTAuntMinnie.com CT InsiderJune 18, 2014CTChest CT details characteristics of MERS virus infectionResearchers in Saudi Arabia have clarified defining characteristics of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection, which they say manifests in a similar way to organizing pneumonia on CT, according to a new report in the American Journal of Roentgenology.June 17, 2014Residents/FellowsNew core exam: From 'board frenzy' to 'future neglect'?The American Board of Radiology (ABR) and the Association of Program Directors in Radiology (APDR) got it wrong when they revamped the accreditation process and dumped the oral boards in favor of a third-year core exam, according to an opinion piece in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.June 15, 2014UltrasoundQuantitative US gauges cellular tumor treatment responseCanadian researchers have succeeded in measuring chemotherapy treatment response in mice at the microscopic level using quantitative ultrasound combined with maximum mean discrepancy measurements, according to a new study in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.June 12, 2014Previous PagePage 49 of 258Next PageTop StoriesMRIMRI, PET reveal distinct brain changes in loneliness and social isolationPrior studies frequently have used the terms interchangeably and applied measures designed for one construct when investigating the other.MRIPodcast: Hospital accreditation isn’t a safety net for MRIAISIIM-CAIMI program chairs talk medical imaging AI's evolutionCTLDCT predicts vertebral fracture risk in heavy smokersSponsor ContentFree Radiology Workflow Webinar
