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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Real-time 'functional' DTI aids cerebral palsy patients
December 1st 2005Diffusion tensor imaging, an MR technique that produces images based on the orientation of water molecules, has mainly been used to evaluate brain white matter diseases. Now, Stanford University researchers have combined DTI with computer-generated musculoskeletal models to plan gait-correcting surgeries in children with cerebral palsy.
Strategic goals take shape in functional brain MR imaging
December 1st 2005Although neurosurgeons depend on preoperative functional MRI to map eloquent brain areas, technique standards need strengthening and reimbursement is nonexistent. The recent formation of a dedicated fMRI society is serving to galvanize interest and search for solutions to these and other issues, according to a Wednesday panel discussion.
New Horizons lecturer touts opportunities for imaging biomarkers
November 30th 2005Academic radiologists usually cut to the chase in describing how imaging increasingly factors into drug discovery and research. They display cellular metabolism FDG-PET images or dynamic-contrast MR images quantifying changes in tumor vascularity. These glamor children of radiological research reflect the potential of medical imaging in measuring therapeutic response.
Siemens introduces MR operation by remote
November 30th 2005Siemens demonstrated hands-off imaging at the RSNA with a work in progress that turns control of an MR scanner over to remote operators. The goal behind Expert-I, which is pending FDA clearance, is to allow expert collaboration on challenging examinations regardless of how far away the expert may be.
New Horizons lecturer touts opportunities for imaging biomarkers
November 29th 2005Academic radiologists usually cut to the chase in describing how imaging increasingly factors into drug discovery and research. They display cellular metabolism FDG-PET images or dynamic-contrast MR images quantifying changes in tumor vascularity. These glamor children of radiological research reflect the potential of medical imaging in measuring therapeutic response.
News from the RSNA meeting: Neuro-protective myelination may increase in middle age
November 28th 2005Myelination, the development of a protective sheath for nerve fibers, may dramatically increase when adults enter their forties before beginning to decline in old age, according to a study presented Sunday at the RSNA meeting. The finding contradicts long-held beliefs that myelination is a normal process of brain maturation that is largely complete by early adulthood.
MRA throws down gauntlet to DSA in neurovascular disease
November 28th 2005High-field 3D MR angiography can put up a good fight against conventional x-ray digital subtraction angiography for the diagnosis of brain aneurysms and other intracranial vascular malformations, according to studies presented at the RSNA meeting Monday. Three-D MRA also provides reliable follow-up after treatment.
Neuro-protective myelination may increase in middle age
November 27th 2005Myelination, the development of a protective sheath for nerve fibers, may dramatically increase when adults enter their forties before beginning to decline in old age, according to a study presented Sunday. The finding contradicts long-held beliefs that myelination is a normal process of brain maturation that is largely complete by early adulthood.
MRI proves value in lymphoma staging
November 10th 2005Whole-body MRI with a nonenhanced imaging sequence can provide accurate staging of lymphoma. Contrast agents and other improvements could take this accuracy even further, making MRI an alternative to CT and PET, according to researchers at Mater Misericordiae Hospital in Dublin.
MRS gains indications, but still fights for reimbursement
November 2nd 2005To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the death of diagnostic MR spectroscopy are greatly exaggerated. CPT 76390 is considered standard of care as an effective imaging technique for the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of patients with brain lesions by Cigna Healthcare, a respected healthcare provider,1 though declared "investigational" by Blue Shield, Anthem, and Medicare. Radiologists and other physicians are confused and annoyed by some insurers' refusal to reimburse for their MRS services.
JHU ICMIC spurs advanced research
November 2nd 2005Discoveries relating to the imaging of hypoxia, angiogenesis, and ligand receptors demonstrate the scientific prowess of the In vivo Cellular Molecular Imaging Center at Johns Hopkins University and justify its reputation as one of the top molecular imaging laboratories in the world.
3T MR imaging promises to extend radiology's reach
November 2nd 2005Exquisite images of the brain, spine, body, and joints will adorn vendors' booths at the RSNA meeting, attesting to the benefits of clinical 3T. But, unlike the many ultrahigh-field MR scans that vendors have displayed in the past, most of these 3T images will come from systems designed for everyday clinical practice.
Real-time MRI catches beating fetal heart
October 24th 2005Researchers from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have performed real-time functional cardiac MRI in fetuses. Theirs is the first report of this technique, which may represent an advance over the current gold standard of fetal echocardiography.
Snowboarders face different injuries from skiers
October 19th 2005Despite the image of young snowboarders recklessly bombing downhill, the popular sport actually has no greater percentage of injuries than does skiing. Snowboarders have their own types of injuries, however, related to factors unique to the sport.
Engineering innovation leads to first clinical PET/MR scanner
October 10th 2005Working with colleagues at the former CTI PET Systems in Knoxville, Siemens Medical Solutions engineers in Erlangen, Germany, are assembling a prototype PET/MR scanner designed to overcome technical barriers that have thus far kept a hybrid of these two modalities from clinical use.
Pancreatic imaging gets a taste of the tropics
October 7th 2005Could patients with possible biliary and/or pancreatic disease soon be offered a piña colada before imaging? Not quite, but a team of Belgian radiologists has started serving pineapple juice labeled with gadolinium to boost the quality of its MR cholangiopancreatography scans.
Perfusion-diffusion confusion yields to spatial information
October 5th 2005In recent years, the use of MR perfusion- and diffusion-based imaging to predict tissue outcome following acute ischemic stroke has increased significantly. While most strategies to improve outcome have focused on MRI parameters, researchers from Boston and Finland have devised a novel approach that also includes spatial information.
Glaucoma drainage implants and MRI safety
October 3rd 2005A drainage implant or device, also known as a tube shunt, is implanted in the sclera of patients with glaucoma to maintain an artificial drainage pathway and control intraocular pressure. Intraocular pressure is lowered when aqueous humor flows from inside the eye through the tube into the space between the plate that rests on the scleral surface and surrounding fibrous capsule.(1-3)