''NEW ORLEANS, La.?As many as 50 percent of all cardiac deaths due to disease in the heart's vessels occur in individuals with no prior history or symptoms of heart disease. In addition, standard coronary risk factors may fail to explain up to 50 percent ...'

''ScienceDaily (Jun. 10, 2008) ? Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have modified a common chemotherapy drug to create a new probe for Positron Emission Tomography (PET), an advance that will allow them to model and measure the ...'

''Cross-use of technology between nuclear medicine and radiology technologists is expanding. The growth of PET/CT and the increasing use of intravenous contrast agents during these procedures bring the nuclear medicine technologist into direct contact ...'

''Extremely low dose CT coronary angiography can be used to measure cardiac function and has the potential for use when other commonly used examinations are limited, a preliminary study indicates. "CT coronary angiography provides a wealth of data ...'

''FluoroPharma Inc., a company developing breakthrough cardiovascular molecular imaging agents for the Positron Emission Tomography (PET) market, announced commencement of Phase I clinical trials for BFPET, following institutional review board (IRB) ...'

''Cancer imaging technology company Michelson Diagnostics Ltd (MDL) has announced that it has commenced the engineering phase of its development of probes for in-vivo imaging with optical coherence tomography (OCT). According to MDL Applications ...'

''Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) called the new screening guidelines announced by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) "a positive step in the right direction that will encourage those at high risk for lung cancer to fully investigate their ...'

''The advent of computed tomography (CT) has revolutionized diagnostic radiology. Since the inception of CT in the 1970s, its use has increased rapidly. It is estimated that more than 62 million CT scans per year are currently obtained in the United ...'

''This article discusses CT radiation dose, the measurement of CT dose, and CT image quality. The most commonly used dose descriptor is CT dose index, which represents the dose to a location (e.g., depth) in a scanned volume from a complete series of ...'