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The Diagnostic Imaging CT modality focus page provides information, videos, podcasts, and the latest news about industry product developments, trial results, screening guidelines, and protocol guidance that touch on the use of CT across the healthcare continuum, from various cancer screenings, such as lung and colon, to cardiothoracic imaging, to appendicitis, and more.

Using Cardiac CTA Before TAVR to Assess Left Atrium Parameters May Predict Mortality

October 20, 2021

Cardiac CTA before transcatheter aortic valve replacement can be used to better determine risk by assessing left atrium functional parameters that are predictive of mortality.

Early PET/CT Can Help Predict Treatment Response, Survival of Patients with Liver Cancer

October 08, 2021

Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma may benefit from early PET/CT imaging after transarterial radioembolization to predict treatment response and survival, a new study found.

PET Imaging Helps Guide Patient Selection for Radical Prostatectomy

October 06, 2021

Clinicians taking care of patients with high-risk prostate cancer being assessed for prostatectomy can use a positive PET scan as a true positive, but a negative scan cannot be used to exclude disease or inform nodal dissection.

50 Years of CT: Then, Now, and What’s to Come

October 01, 2021

Diagnostic Imaging sat down with medical physicist and CT expert Cynthia H. McCollough, PhD, to learn more about the history of CT and its expanding potential in medical imaging.

FDA Clears Siemens’ New CT Scanner With Photon-Counting Detector

October 01, 2021

The approval represents the first major technological advance in CT in nearly a decade.

Image IQ Quiz: What Do You See On This Axial CT of the Orbits?

September 28, 2021

Can you make the diagnosis?

The Case for Canon’s Air-Cooled Digital PET/CT System

September 22, 2021

Image IQ Quiz: Odd Visualization on Neck CT

September 16, 2021

What is your diagnosis on this CT of the neck?

Unilocular Thymic Cysts May Rarely Undergo Malignant Transformation

September 15, 2021

Awareness of the variable imaging characteristics and behavior of thymic cysts over time should help guide clinical management.

Image IQ Quiz: 78-Year-Old With Chest Pain

September 14, 2021

A 78-year-old patient presents with chest pain. Can you make the diagnosis?