Brian Casey[email protected]MRIIntroducing Board Review 2.0 | SalaryScan is waiting for you | MRI for prostateJanuary 25, 2019AIWeek in Review: Breast MRI predicts cancer risk | AI for glioblastoma | Make time for SalaryScanJanuary 18, 2019EconomicsMRI jargon draws fire in Vox series on health costsOnline news portal Vox continues find radiology in its sights as it takes aim at runaway healthcare costs. In a January 14 article, the site criticized jargon that hospitals use to describe radiology services -- in particular MRI -- as an example of why healthcare charges are so hard to understand.January 14, 2019Practice ManagementWeek in Review: Radiologists as gatekeepers | Doubts about radiopharma plan | CT expeditorsJanuary 11, 201920193 new things to see at ECR 2019The upcoming ECR 2019 meeting will feature three new highlights, with a major content focus on artificial intelligence and interventional radiology. These are in addition to traditional events and activities that attendees have come to expect at the Vienna congress, according to the European Society of Radiology.January 10, 2019CTCT scans show impact of space flight on musclesProlonged time in space can have a measurable effect on muscle size and composition, according to researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). An MIT group analyzed CT scans of astronauts who spent months on the International Space Station to document muscle changes.January 9, 2019UltrasoundStart-up BURL develops ultrasound-based 'ECG for stroke'SAN FRANCISCO - A California start-up is developing an ultrasound-based device that it hopes could become a low-cost way to test patients for stroke, much in the same way electrocardiograms (ECGs) assess heart-attack patients. Executives with BURL Concepts presented the idea at this week's Digital Medicine & Medtech (DigiMed) Showcase.January 8, 2019MRIBeyond BMI: AMRA aims to take MRI fat analysis furtherSAN FRANCISCO - Image analysis software developer AMRA Medical hopes to take body fat analysis beyond the measurement of body mass index (BMI) with an application that analyzes MRI scans to assess health risk, according to a presentation on Tuesday at the Digital Medicine & Medtech (DigiMed) Showcase.January 8, 2019EconomicsShould radiologists become gatekeepers against overuse?Should the primary duty of radiologists shift from interpreting images to preventing unnecessary orders for medical imaging? That's just one of several novel suggestions for reducing radiology overuse in a Viewpoint article published online January 7 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.January 7, 2019CTWeek in Review: What are you worth? | Variation in CT radiation dose | Mammography and CT lung screeningJanuary 4, 2019Previous PagePage 40 of 140Next PageTop StoriesDigital X-Ray3D DEXA reveals lower bone density in diabetes patients3D DEXA revealed differences that conventional bone mineral density measurements did not detect.MRIGadolinium in ... beer?UltrasoundMWA safe, effective in treating hyperthyroidism with nodulesAIAI model shows promise for diagnosing prostate cancerCT'Habitat' AI model helps stratify lung nodule disease risk on LDCT
