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.
April 30th 2024
In finalized updates to breast cancer screening recommendations, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) advocates biennial mammography screening for women 40 to 74 years of age and notes insufficient evidence for the use of supplemental MRI in women with dense breasts.
Revolutionizing Early-Stage NSCLC Treatment: Pathologists’ Key Insights into Predicting Pathologic Responses to Immunotherapies
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Medical Crossfire®: Critical Questions on Diagnosis, Sequencing, and Selection of Systemic and Radioligand Therapy Options for Patients with GEP-NETs
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Medical Crossfire®: Expert Exchanges to Maximize Clinical Outcomes for Patients with CRPC Through Evidence-Based Personalized Therapy
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23rd Annual International Congress on the Future of Breast Cancer® West
July 12-13, 2024
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25th Annual International Lung Cancer Congress®
July 25-27, 2024
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2023 ASCO Direct™ Highlights: Practice-Changing Data From the Leading Oncology Conference
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6th Annual Precision Medicine Symposium: An Illustrated Tumor Board
October 18-19, 2024
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Community Practice Connections™: 24th Annual International Lung Cancer Congress®
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19th Annual New York Lung Cancers Symposium®
November 16, 2024
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Medical Crossfire®: How Does Recent Evidence on PARP Inhibitors and Combinations Inform Treatment Planning for Prostate Cancer Now and In the Future?
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Medical Crossfire®: How Do the Experts Select and Sequence Therapies to Optimize Patient Outcomes and Quality of Life in Advanced Prostate Cancer?
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Lung Cancer Tumor Board®: Enhancing Multidisciplinary Communication to Optimize Immunotherapy in Stage I-III NSCLC
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Clinical Vignettes™: The Experts Explain How They Integrate PET Imaging into Metastatic HR+ Breast Cancer Care Settings
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School of Breast Oncology® Live Video Webcast: Clinical Updates from San Antonio
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Community Practice Connections™: The 2nd Annual Hawaii Lung Cancers Conference®
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Strategies strive to revive interest in ultrasound
March 1st 2007In October 2006 the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound brought diagnostic ultrasound's leadership together in San Francisco. Two days of lectures and debate led to a strategy statement defining a plan to maintain radiology's leadership over the modality.
NIH workshop finds value in high-field cardiovascular MR
March 1st 2007The first focused meeting on the use of 3T MR for cardiovascular applications convened under National Institutes of Health sponsorship last September. Luminaries in MR technology and applications met in Washington, DC, for two days under the leadership of National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering director Dr. Roderic Pettigrew.
Ultrasound's future in play: Will radiologists remain in the picture?
March 1st 2007Diagnostic ultrasound is ideal for many patients. No other imaging option gives them a real-time look at their own anatomy or so openly encourages discussion with the radiologist about their symptoms and the evidence of disease on the monitor.
Claustrophobia, meet arachnophobia
March 1st 2007MRI can be daunting enough for claustrophobic patients. But now arachnophobia may be a good reason to fear entering the tube. Researchers have begun studying large eight-legged creatures with clinical MR systems (Magn Reson Imaging 2007;25:129-135).
European authorities warn against use of Omniscan in at-risk patients
February 13th 2007The European Medicines Agency has warned providers not to use gadodiamide (Omniscan) in patients with poor renal function, due to the risk of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis, a rare and life-threatening skin disease.
Report from SCMR: Cardiac MRI foretells lethal episodes
February 9th 2007Dobutamine stress perfusion MRI predicts myocardial infarction and death in patients with reduced heart function, according to a study presented at the 2007 Society for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance meeting in Rome last week.
Report from International Stroke Conference: MRI outperforms CT for initial stroke evaluation
February 8th 2007A multicenter prospective trial involving 1210 patients in Europe has found that the odds of a favorable clinical outcome were one-third higher for acute stroke patients who received diffusion-perfusion MRI to determine the appropriateness of tPA thrombolysis than patients assessed with conventional noncontrast CT.
Report from SCMR: Discovering underlying causes of disease improves diagnosis and treatment
February 6th 2007Using cardiac MR imaging to discover the underlying processes of cardiovascular diseases is helping researchers learn how to diagnose and treat heart disease more quickly and effectively. Scientific abstracts presented over the weekend at the 2007 Society for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance meeting in Rome demonstrated the value of preclinical research.
Report from SCMR: Cardiac MRI spots stealthy heart attacks in diabetic patients
February 5th 2007Cardiac MR imaging with delayed gadolinium enhancement can detect silent myocardial infarction in diabetic patients and predict the chances these patients will suffer a future cardiac event, according to a study presented at the 2007 Society for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance meeting in Rome. Findings suggest the technique could play a role in screening diabetic patients.
MR contrast agents reach 25-year landmark
February 1st 2007One sunny day in late spring 1982, I stood on the public observatory deck at the top of the Empire State Building in New York City with a visitor from Germany. I recall being on crutches, my foot and ankle encased in a plaster cast, having stumbled awkwardly while walking on a Long Island beach.
MR colonography proves effective but unpleasant
February 1st 2007Although MR colonography is proving to be an effective method of colorectal screening, patients are no more likely to accept it than optical colonoscopy. In addition, limited bowel prep protocols for CT colonography are proving comparable to full cathartic prep.
Philips launches world's first upgradable MR scanner
February 1st 2007In an industry muddled by clever wording and hidden meanings, the announcement at the 2006 RSNA meeting that Philips Medical Systems had developed an MR system that can be upgraded from 1.5T to 3T brought to mind the rumblings of a forklift and weeks of downtime.
Ultrasound's crisis of confidence follows a familiar pattern
February 1st 2007Over the years, we've had the privilege of checking the vital signs of many imaging modalities. Diagnostic Imaging served as a witness to the rise and fall of digital subtraction angiography and reported the PET crisis of the mid-1990s.
Report from ISET: MR catheter snakes its way toward FDA approval
January 31st 2007Despite imaging advances for coronary artery disease, few clinically available tools can accurately characterize the lipid-rich core of vulnerable plaque. A company in Israel wants to change that with a disposable intravascular MR imaging device that entered clinical trials in the U.S. in January.
Study shows MRI superiority over CT for diagnosis of ischemic stroke
January 27th 2007A prospective trial published in the Jan. 27 issue of The Lancet has confirmed suspicions among neuroradiologists about the power of MRI to diagnose acute stroke, while finding noncontrast CT surprisingly insensitive to the potentially lethal disease.
MRI reduces need for knee arthroscopy
January 18th 2007Data from the first study of its kind suggest that MR imaging makes more sense diagnostically than arthroscopy in patients with possible knee pathology. Dutch researchers published results from the multicenter trial in the January issue of Radiology.