Cardiac imaging researchers are expanding the scope of topics considered at the 2009 RSNA meeting to include iodinated contrast media administration as a safety issue and clinical outcomes studies that weigh the relative merits of cost and clinical efficacy. More »
Interventional MRI is an established clinical tool for the biopsy of lesions that are difficult or impossible to delineate or that cannot be reached easily by any other modality. More »
A large prospective trial found plaque burden and plaques involving small lumen area are as likely as classically defined vulnerable plaques to trigger a myocardial infarction. More »
Findings from a large multicenter study by U.S. researchers suggest 64-slice CT angiography is better suited to detect nonobstructive but otherwise clinically relevant coronary artery plaques in patients with diabetes than are other cardiac diagnostic tests. More »
A large, multicenter clinical trial involving several imaging modalities has found that plaque burden and plaques involving small lumen area are as likely as classically defined vulnerable plaques to trigger a myocardial infarction. More »
Coronary artery stenosis assessed by CT angiography is a more reliable predictor of major short-term cardiac events—including intervention, heart attacks, and death—than is coronary calcium scoring, according to a study by researchers at a hospital in Michigan More »
Imaging scientists achieved a major breakthrough when they proved it was possible to predict the onset of Alzheimer’s disease using PET scans of neurochemical activity. University of Michigan researchers are going for the next neuroimaging milestone by showing that the same technique can also aid in... More »
