Marijke Vroomen Durning, RN

SPECT/CT, commonly used for imaging thyroid cancer after radioiodine therapy, was used before therapy to better identify and characterize the cancer.

Preoperative MRIs should be done on all newly diagnosed breast cancer patients, regardless of breast density.

About half of additional imaging requests in oncologic PET/CT reports are unnecessary.

Digital breast tomosynthesis plus mammography provides a 40 percent reduction in patient recalls, reducing anxiety and potentially cutting cost and overall radiation dose.

Researchers found ABUS takes three minutes of physician interpretation time compared with 20 to 30 minutes for hand-held ultrasounds.

The modality bests the U.S. standard of care, radiographic skeletal survey, in assessing the extent of the disease.

New study challenges common belief and finds patients with a history of renal disease, hypertension or heart disease were more likely to suffer renal insufficiency.

MR enterography bests CT enterography, but CT enterography is faster, less expensive, and more widely available.

About a third of CT examinations performed following an inconclusive abdominal ultrasound have positive findings, and most are useful in diagnosing renal lesions.

ABVS agreed with hand-held ultrasound in detecting 15 suspicious lesions, but also detected 12 additional lesions and excluded 12 lesions.

Radiologists believe they are less competent than other physicians when it comes to patient imaging costs and patient safety.

Radiologists spend more time reviewing mammogram images from women who were called back for further investigation, and these images were interpreted with more confidence.

Use of CT scans on pediatric patients in emergency departments has risen between 1999 and 2007, despite no corresponding increase in ultrasound use.

Health Affairs says imaging cuts will hurt needed testing, as well as redundant testing.

If a patients shows strong response to images of food (or sex) in an fMRI, they are more likely to gain weight (or have more sex) in coming months, say researchers.

Lead shielding patients helps protect operators from radiation exposure during cardiac catheterization, but shielding is less effective for the radial approach than for the femoral approach.

FNAs may produce too many false negatives. Follow up imaging suggested.

Technique based on whole-brain tractography may predict progress of certain dementias, such as Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia.

Ionizing radiation from frequent dental X-rays may increase the risk of meningioma, researchers found.

Tomosynthesis is an effective tool, but PACS integration and reimbursement issues are causing problems, a new study finds.

CT screening for lung cancer could save thousands of lives if routinely covered by insurers, according to a Health Affairs study.

Increased tube potential for routine scans resulted in an increase of up to 62 percent in organ radiation exposure, compared with normal weight patients.

Screening mammograms, often associated with false-positive results in breast cancer-free women, may indicate underlying pathology that still could result in breast cancer, researchers said.

The radiology department at the University of Colorado in Denver has developed pocket-sized reference card that provides the effective doses and radiation risks of common adult radiologic exams.

Adding ultrasound or MRI to annual mammography screening may benefit women at increased risk of breast cancer and dense breasts but might not be appropriate for women at intermediate risk.

Researchers found little risk for secondary cancers from multi-detector computed tomography among the Medicare population.

Routine mammograms do not reduce the incidence of late-stage breast cancer detection and may result in significant overdiagnosis of early breast cancers.

Radiation doses from digital breast tomosynthesis is comparable to and could be lower than conventional two-view full-field digital mammography.

There was concern that cancers diagnosed in routine screening were less aggressive than those found in routine practice.

CCTA is safe and effective, and saves time when assessing patients at low- to intermediate-risk of a heart attack.