The Diagnostic Imaging MRI 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 MRI across the healthcare continuum, including breast, neurological, cardiovascular, prostate imaging, and more.
May 14th 2024
The artificial intelligence (AI)-powered module provides a prostate segmentation tool for MRI-guided transurethral ultrasound ablation (TULSA) procedures in patients with prostate cancer.
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Breast MRI poises for surge from new guidelines and research
March 29th 2007Two developments this week are expected to give a big boost to breast MRI utilization. Updated American Cancer Society guidelines advise adding annual breast MRI to screening in very high-risk women. And a massive new American College of Radiology Imaging Network trial has documented MRI’s value in assessing women with cancer in a single breast to detect or rule out disease in the opposite breast.
Quality issue must move beyond mammography
March 26th 2007Trails blazed in medicine often bring controversy and even consternation. Breast care is no different. Since 1965, when the American College of Radiology formed the Committee on Mammography, advances in breast imaging and legislation to ensure its quality have largely centered on x-ray mammography.
Report from ECR: Radiologists find role for whole-body MRI in spotting metastases
March 21st 2007If patients suffering from malignant disease are to get the right treatment and an accurate prognosis, accurate assessment of metastases is crucial. Whole-body MR is a good tool that can play a supporting role for detection of metastases, but it is not as reliable as gold standard PET/CT, according to research presented at the European Congress of Radiology.
Report from ECR: Functional MR imaging maps brain function and plasticity
March 20th 2007Functional MRI is increasingly being used preoperatively to improve the safety of surgery that will remove brain tumors or locate epileptogenic foci by mapping motor, somatosensory, and language functions, at least in larger teaching and university hospitals.
Report from ECR: Hardware, software advances give fMRI a place in abdominal imaging
March 20th 2007Technical advances in MRI have paved the way for functional imaging of the abdomen, moving beyond simple morphological evaluation of disease and in sometimes proving superior to multislice CT. With quantitative imaging tools at their disposal, radiologists are rethinking what they need to visualize with MR to answer new clinical questions.
Report from ECR: MRI sheds light on diverse range of upper extremity injuries
March 19th 2007Patients with compressive or entrapment neuropathies of the elbow, forearm, wrist, or hand may go straight to sonographic examination. In skilled hands, ultrasound can produce images that reveal pathology as well as MR images can.
Report from ECR: Sonoelastography makes headway in prostate cancer assessment
March 15th 2007Sonoelastography shows strong performance in prostate cancer detection, but room for improvement remains when it comes to specificity, according to research from the Medical University Innsbruck presented at the European Congress of Radiology in Vienna.
Report from ECR: Systems-based healthcare hinges on imaging research
March 14th 2007Imaging is poised to play a key role in the advancement of 21st-century science and healthcare, but only if the radiology community changes its view of imaging sciences, according to Dr. Elias Zerhouni, director of the National Institutes of Health. If that means researchers adopting unconventional or innovative approaches, so be it.
Systems-based healthcare hinges on imaging research
March 13th 2007Imaging is poised to play a key role in the advancement of 21st century science and healthcare. This will happen only if the radiology community changes its view of imaging sciences, according to Dr. Elias Zerhouni, a radiologist and director of the National Institutes of Health. And if that means researchers adopting unconventional or innovative approaches, so be it.
Precise and quick imaging allows whole-body screenings for suspected disease
March 13th 2007Technological advances to CT and MRI allow radiologists to perform whole-body examinations in mere seconds. This has changed the way radiologists use whole-body imaging in diagnostics, according to Dr. Maximilian Reiser, director of the Institute for Clinical Radiology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich and incoming 2008 president of the European Congress of Radiology.
Hardware, software advances give fMRI a place in abdominal imaging
March 13th 2007Technical advances in MRI have paved the way for functional imaging of the abdomen, moving beyond simple morphological evaluation of disease and in some cases proving superior to multislice CT. With quantitative imaging tools at their disposal, radiologists are rethinking what they need to visualize with MR to answer new clinical questions.
Sonoelastography makes headway in prostate cancer assessment
March 12th 2007Sonoelastography shows strong performance in prostate cancer detection, but room for improvement remains when it comes to specificity, according to research from the Medical University Innsbruck in Austria, a leading center in prostate imaging research.
Hearts leap as molecular cardiovascular imaging edges forward
March 12th 2007In conventional imaging, stable and dangerous lesions have a similar appearance. But new techniques using contrast-enhanced high-resolution MR molecular imaging can help to determine when to treat atherosclerotic plaques and when to leave them alone, according to a Saturday minicourse on molecular imaging.
MR imaging uncovers new territory in assessing bone marrow edema
March 12th 2007Bone marrow edema produces characteristic alterations in signal (low on T1- and high on T2-weighted MR images), but its pattern of presentation is highly nonspecific, posing a challenge for radiologists. Edema-like bone marrow patterns generally are reflected by ill-defined increased signal changes on fluid-sensitive sequences such as short-tau inversion recovery or fat-suppressed T2-weighted.
Coronary CTA finds an affordable home
March 12th 2007At last year’s European Congress of Radiology, research regarding 64-slice CT angiography was focused on its feasibility. This year, feasibility is no longer an issue. Rather, a wealth of evidence is being presented attesting to the fact that coronary CTA is a powerful and useful tool to evaluate patients suspected of coronary artery disease who are at intermediate risk. It is within this niche patient group -- those who would otherwise undergo invasive catheter angiography -- that coronary CTA is finding an affordalbe home.
Stroke care demands radical approach
March 12th 2007Around 10% to 15% of patients in the developed world die following acute stroke, 30% to 60% survive with long-term disabilities, and 20% to 25% require a hospital stay. These frightening statistics could be improved if radically different strategies were adopted for managing stroke patients, according to speakers at an overflowing state-of-the-art symposium.
MR imaging sheds light on diverse range of injuries in upper extremity
March 12th 2007Patients with compressive or entrapment neuropathies of the elbow, forearm, wrist, or hand may go straight to sonographic examination. In skilled hands, ultrasound can produce images that reveal pathology as well as MR images can. But while the diagnosis of a tendon rupture is a relatively simple matter with ultrasound, to assess specific neurological injuries, such as nerve entrapment and compression, the technique requires considerable experience, expertise, and patience, said Dr. Javier Beltran of the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY.
Head and neck reports must combine accurate descriptions with foresight
March 10th 2007In treating an underlying problem in the head and neck, potential complications must be identified and graded in the radiologist’s report for correct follow-up. Radiologists may be able to solve a clinical problem directly with a single approach such as ultrasound. But other modalities must be used when ultrasound fails due to the depth of a lesion or air within the lumen, making evaluation of the head and neck complex, according to researchers from Italy, Austria, and Switzerland.
Radiologists find role for whole-body MRI in spotting metastases
March 10th 2007If patients suffering from malignant disease are to get the right treatment and an accurate prognosis, accurate assessment of metastases is crucial. Whole-body MR is a good tool that can play a supporting role for detection of metastases, but it is not as reliable as gold standard PET/CT, according to research presented on Saturday.
Functional MR imaging maps brain function and plasticity
March 10th 2007Functional MRI is increasingly being used preoperatively to improve the safety of surgery that will remove brain tumors or locate epileptogenic foci by mapping motor, somatosensory, and language functions, at least in larger teaching and university hospitals.
Dementia drugs give impetus to early and accurate diagnosis
March 9th 2007Dementia affects between 1% and 6% of people over the age of 65, and 10% to 20% of those over 80. So as more and more individuals survive into old age, the absolute number of dementia sufferers is likely to soar in the years ahead.
Report from ECR: Dementia drugs give impetus to early and accurate diagnosis
March 9th 2007Dementia affects between 1% and 6% of people over the age of 65, and 10% to 20% of those over 80. So as more and more individuals survive into old age, the absolute number of dementia sufferers is likely to soar in the years ahead.
Scottish researchers probe link between gadolinium and nephrogenic systemic fibrosis
March 9th 2007A new six-year retrospective study has charted incidence of a rare and debilitating skin condition after gadolinium-enhanced MR in patients on kidney dialysis. Researchers found that nephrogenic systemic fibrosis may not surface for a very long time after gadolinium exposure and other unknown factors may play a role in disease development.
Europeans scramble to thwart electromagnetic threshold law
March 9th 2007European legislation aimed at protecting workers from harmful effects of electromagnetic radiation, such as those emitted by mobile phones and electrical power lines, could unwittingly change the course of MR imaging if efforts to amend the law fail, according to Dr. Gabriel P. Krestin, who spoke today at a press conference at the European Congress of Radiology.
Brain imaging specialists concentrate on connectivity, activation, and microangiopathies
March 9th 2007Profound improvements in perfusion and diffusion tensor imaging over the past few decades are changing the ways in which radiologists understand disease processes, especially those involving small blood vessels in the brain, according to Dr. Jonathan Gillard of Cambridge University Hospital in the U.K.