MRI

Case History: 60-year-old female presented with complaint of swelling of left mandible.

MRI shows changes in the hip following arthroscopic hip surgery, in both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients.

An abbreviated MRI protocol is effective in detecting breast cancer and saving resources.

Radiographs can provide anatomic evaluation and appropriate starting point when investigating possible musculoskeletal infection.

Compared to standard biopsy strategy, MR imaging-guided strategies are cost effective in helping detect prostate cancer.

Magnetic resonance imaging department efficiency increases when MRI technologists undergo advanced communication training.

Advanced imaging is being used more often in emergency rooms.

Magnetic resonance imaging shows effect of prolonged space travel on vision.

MR elastography is highly repeatable and weakly correlates with age.

Imaging can show a slowing down of cartilage degeneration in obese patients after they’ve lost weight.

Additional MR screening helps identify previously undiagnosed breast cancers in women with average lifetime risk.

Using a comprehensive utilization management can help reduce the use of high cost imaging in primary care practices.

Breast MRI–guided vacuum-assisted biopsy has a low false omission rate, so MRI follow-up may not be warranted.

Over 16 percent of MRI exams are delayed because of unanticipated events.

Magnetic resonance imaging following sex-reassignment surgery helps clinicians assess post-operative anatomy and complications that may occur.

Image quality may be affected if reduced doses in 18F-FDG-PET/MRI are used for abdominal examinations.

Knee MRIs with natural language processing may help classify imaging reports.

Magnetic resonance imaging may help physicians determine which patients with depression would have better success with medication and which with psychotherapy.

Breast images performed outside cancer centers may be interpreted differently if reinterpreted at a cancer center.

Multi-parametric MRI may be a substitute for serial biopsies in active surveillance regimens to avoid patient discomfort associated with repeat biopsies.

Reader confidence and self-directed learning impacts prostate tumor detection through MR images.

Magnetic resonance imaging may be possible for patients even if they have pacemakers or ICDs that have not been approved by the FDA for MRI scanning.

Preoperative MRI following ultrasound detection of breast cancer can find more cancers.

Study shows using MR imaging for breast screening among women with average cancer risk improves early diagnosis.

The future of molecular imaging.