'Imaging providers have decreased the use of anesthesia and sedation among children over the past decade, according to a new analysis published in JAMA Pediatrics [1]. The percentage of CT and MRI encounters that used these two techniques to calm ...'

' University of Missouri School of Medicine neurologist Adnan Qureshi, MD recently led a study that discovered last year's iodinated media contrast dye shortage affected the assessment of stroke patients at hospitals across the country. Injecting or ...'

'Patients discharged from the emergency department after CT with CTA alone could have benefitted from an alternative or additional MRI evaluation, including using a specialized abbreviated protocol for the ...'

'Bayer announced that Ultravist (iopromide)-300, -370, its iodine-based contrast agent, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for contrast-enhanced mammography(CEM) – making it the only contrast agent approved for this ...'

'Computed tomography-derived fractional flow reserve (FFR-CT) may have a lower positive predictive value (PPV) than expected, according to a new analysis published in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.[1] How could this impact its overall value? FFR-CT has ...'

'A rapidly growing tumour can't deliver oxygen to all its regions. The resulting oxygen-starved tumour regions, however, are difficult to treat with radiation therapy, a technique that relies on free radicals produced in the presence of oxygen to damage ...'

'In the same year three humans first orbited the moon, 1968, the sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick published Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The novel imagined a dark, futuristic society in which real people couldn't be readily distinguished from ...'

'The American College of Radiology issued a heads up on Thursday regarding potential payment denials at certain facility types. ACR highlighted the delivery of low-dose CT lung cancer screening at independent diagnostic testing facilities. Following a ...'

'The first of an innovative range of high-performance X-ray CT (computed tomography) systems offering enhanced levels of precision, resolution and scan speed has been introduced and is ready to order from the Industrial Metrology Business Unit (IMBU) of ...'

'Radioactive waste is a by-product from nuclear reactors, fuel processing plants, hospitals, and research facilities. It is also generated while decommissioning and dismantling nuclear reactors and other nuclear facilities. Radioactive waste comes from ...'