MRI

Doctors with imaging center financial interests may order more unneeded knee MRIs than those referring to unrelated centers.

Whole-body MRI may help detect cardiovascular and cerebrovascular changes in patients with diabetes, allowing more aggressive management.

Clinicians using 18F-FDG PET on patients with cervical spinal cord compression may be able to predict an improved outcome after surgical decompression.

Women with breast cancer who undergo preoperative MRI have a higher rate of bilateral mastectomies and contralateral prophylactic mastectomies than women who aren’t scanned.

MRI images of the brain may help clinicians identify kindergarten-aged children with dyslexia before they have started to learn how to read.

Fusing MRI and ultrasound may help to better target treatment for prostate cancer.

Despite the availability of clinical guidelines for optimal spine care for back pain patients, many unnecessary diagnostic imaging tests are being performed.

Specialized MRIs allow physicians to view progress in brain cancer treatment before it can be detected by standard MRI, allowing for early therapy changes.

Web-based quality control system results in significantly fewer common image quality errors radiographs, CTs and MRIs.

Using a half dose of contrast with 3-T MRI for patients with early rheumatoid arthritis shows identical image quality as full-dose.

MRI may replace conditional CT for appendicitis detection in adults because of its similar accuracy rate.

Nuclear medicine and MR technologists recommend regulations around education, certification and staffing for the new hybrid technology.

Contrast-enhanced MR imaging can find undiagnosed infection at the site of contaminated spinal injections.

Using MRI to obtain two measurements in the abdominal aorta may help physicians predict which patients may go on to have a cardiac event.

The promise of PET/MRI is clear, but challenges remain when it comes to implementing, reading and billing the new technology. This is the second in a two-part series.

The institutions that adopted PET/MRI after its 2011 approval reflect on the changes in workflow and protocol, and the utility and future of the new technology. This is the first in a two-part series.

Cardiac MRI can cut adverse events among patients with possible ACS, shortens hospital stays, and better identifies patients requiring invasive procedures.

Diffusion tensor imaging demonstrates changes in the brain of soccer players who head the ball frequently during games and practice.

MR images detect heart damage in childhood cancer survivors who were treated with anthracycline-based regimens.

MRI measurements of aortic arch pulse wave velocity allow physicians to predict cognitive decline and cardiovascular diseases.

Diffusion MRI has shown the interruption in development of the cerebral cortex among premature babies, compared with their full-term peers.

GE Healthcare this week introduced a new MRI technique designed to allow for more accurate imaging of soft tissue and bone in patients with metal joint implants.

Non-invasive autopsies, performed by MRI, could help determine cause of death for fetuses and young children.

CMS cut MRI joint codes by 30 percent, thanks to three policy changes, and more cuts are expected. Here’s how the cuts are affecting practices.

Dynamic contrast-enhanced breast MRI is a useful tool in aiding detection of residual disease following excisional biopsy for breast cancer.