CT

Latest developments in cardiac PET radiopharmaceuticals from ASNC 2016.

Case History: A 45-year-old patient presented with history of abdominal distension.

Use of evidence-based clinical decision support helps ED physicians detect more PE.

American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2016 shows the cardiac PET value chain still faces more headwinds than tailwinds.

Hospitals that provide pediatric nuclear medicine services reduce dose when sticking to guidelines.

Case History: 55-year-old male with burning urination, hypertension, left flank pain, weight loss.

Point-of-care ultrasound, instead of CT, effective in diagnosis and management of elbow injuries.

CT, with lower radiation dose, can help emergency room physicians determine which patients with ureteral stones need further intervention.

Case History:: 69-year-old patient with pain in legs and feeling of cold legs and chest pain.

Case History: 22-year-old patient presents with cough and breathlessness.

Case History: 27-year-old patient presented with history of seizures.

CT confirms relationship between HIV-related inflammation and the increase of CAD among men infected with HIV.

Case History: 22-year-old female with bilateral lower limb weakness for 25 days.

Case History: 49 year-old male with end stage renal failure presented with pain after a fall.

Annual follow-up with CT for nonsolid nodules detected during lung cancer screening reduces need for biopsies.

PET-CT may indicate which patients with Hodgkin’s lymphoma are responding to treatment.

Case History: 73-year-old male with lower limb muscle pain on left side during physical activity.

Few family physicians are making low-dose CT screening referrals to patients who are at high risk for lung cancer.

Use of ultra-low dose CT versus standard-dose CT to quantify emphysema.

Costs of CTA versus functional diagnostic testing for suspected coronary artery disease.

Case History: 79-year-old male, five day history of abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting.

Radiologists at MGH played an integral role in the success of the first U.S. penile transplant.

Predictive ability for major adverse cardiac events of cardiovascular MRI for patients compared with SPECT.

Case History: 32-year-old female presented to emergency room with bilateral flank pain.

Radiologist-driven imaging utilization, ordering physicians, and clinically relevant pathology, from a study at ACR 2016.