Low-Dose Whole-Body CT Finds More Lesions in Multiple Myeloma Patients
May 2, 2012
The modality bests the U.S. standard of care, radiographic skeletal survey, in assessing the extent of the disease.
Airport Scan
New Analysis Finds Airport Scanner Risk Extremely Low
March 29, 2011
Are airport scanners safe? In another recent analysis on the topic, researchers at the University of California have estimated the cancer risk from one kind of scanners is extremely low.
How Safe is that Airport Body Scan?
March 16, 2011
When you’re standing in line at the airport, putting your shoes in bins and taking loose change out of your pockets, here’s a conversation starter: How safe is that radiation exposure you’ll get walking through the whole-body security scanner? That’s the issue discussed in a pair of articles to be released in April’s print issue of Radiology.
Phantom study suggests airport x-ray body scans could miss bombs
November 18, 2010
A phantom study suggests whole-body x-ray scanners are not effective. Backscatter scanners unlikely to detect substantial explosive amounts on the body.
Senators seek more study of whole body x-ray airport scanner safety
August 13, 2010
Three U.S. senators have joined the debate over the safety of x-ray based whole-body airport scanners, asking federal officials to review scanner health effects on travelers and airport and airline personnel.
Whole-body airport scanners are basically safe—or are they?
January 8, 2010
Since the attempted explosion of an airliner as it was landing in Detroit on Christmas Day by an alleged terrorist from Nigeria, global air safety experts have been scrambling to enact new safety measures. A quick answer has come in the form of whole-body scanners that use low-level radiation to allow screeners to see through clothing to identify hidden weapons or explosives.
Whole-body cancer staging requires frequent follow-up in some patients
March 12, 2008
Whole-body MRI is more sensitive but less specific than FDG-PET/CT for cancer detection, according to researchers from China and Europe. Findings suggest a complementary rather than exclusive role in oncologic imaging for both modalities and validate recent studies suggesting close follow-up since either test can miss metastases.
Whole-body DWI outperforms established modalities for lung cancer staging
May 22, 2007
Whole-body diffusion-weighted MRI has been introduced to complement and possibly compete against whole-body FDG PET and whole-body anatomical MRI for staging cancer metastasis.
Whole-body imaging survives era of undirected screening to emerge as tool for specific indications
March 13, 2007
Few controversies in radiology have generated as much interest as that of whole-body imaging. But niche-specific indications for the technique may quell the controversy.
Precise and quick imaging allows whole-body screenings for suspected disease
March 13, 2007
Technological advances to CT and MRI allow radiologists to perform whole-body examinations in mere seconds. This has changed the way radiologists use whole-body imaging in diagnostics, according to Dr. Maximilian Reiser, director of the Institute for Clinical Radiology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich and incoming 2008 president of the European Congress of Radiology.
