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 2nd 2024
Supplemental breast MRI had a cancer detection rate (CDR) of 20/1000 and a positive predictive value (PPV) of 50 percent, according to preliminary findings from a prospective trial involving women with heterogeneously or very dense breasts.
Medical Crossfire®: How Can Thoracic Teams Facilitate Optimized Care of Patients With Stage I-III EGFR Mutation-Positive NSCLC?
May 21, 2024
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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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Screening centers skew ads to favor benefits
February 8th 2005Whole-body screening centers fail to provide balanced advertisements, often touting unsupported benefits while downplaying known risks. Although not calling for federal legislation, researchers say the industry needs better oversight to protect consumers.
CT leads imaging field in plaque assessment
February 7th 2005CT is moving beyond detection and quantification of coronary artery calcium to grading of coronary stenoses, identifying not only vulnerable plaques but, more important, vulnerable patients. Yet its ultimate role in predicting risk of cardiac events remains unclear.
Report from SCMR: Late-enhancement MR predicts susceptibility to future cardiac death
January 25th 2005The prognostic value of cardiac MR was a prominent theme last week at the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance meeting in San Francisco. Dr. Rishi Kaushal, a CMR researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, presented results demonstrating that myocardial infarction size measured with cine and delayed-enhancement MR can predict the risk of mortality posed by the injury.
MR contrast patterns predict breast cancer therapy response
January 11th 2005The permeability of gadolinium and the morphology of breast cancer can reliably predict whether those tumors will benefit from neoadjuvant chemotherapy, according to research presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in December.
Transesophageal MRI shows early plaque reduction
January 7th 2005Faster MR gradients, improved surface coil designs, and the use of an intraesophageal antenna functioning as an additional receiver have enabled researchers to document atherosclerotic plaque regression within six months of statin therapy. Previous MR technology could verify the same response only after a year of drug treatment.
Vivid imaginations trigger false memories
January 6th 2005Imagine you are asked to discern between two groups of images. You are told that half contain cancerous lesions and half do not. The methodology of the study may already be flawed because of the way the brain creates false memories after leading questions or directions.
Survey identifies orthopedists’ preferences for MR knee reports
December 28th 2004Radiologists need to communicate with referring physicians more often and listen more closely to orthopedics surgeons’ reporting preferences, according to the results of University of California, San Diego survey that were announced at the RSNA meeting.
MRI scores with basketball players at risk for injury
December 2nd 2004Research from Duke University, where stress fractures of the fifth metatarsal have been the proverbial Achilles heel of more than one Blue Devil basketball star, may help team practitioners identify players at risk for this injury even before symptoms develop.
European trial links MRI signs to clinical symptoms in Parkinson’s syndrome
December 2nd 2004In preliminary results from a three-country randomized trial, researchers report finding a correlation between MRI signs and the clinical symptoms seen in patients with multiple system atrophy (MSA) and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP).
Endorectal coils boost accuracy of MR prostate cancer diagnosis
December 1st 2004Patients hate endorectal coils. But results presented at RSNA 2004 show without equivocation that the devices boost the diagnostic confidence of imaging studies critical to determining how prostate disease should be properly managed.
Survey identifies orthopedists’ preferences for MR knee reports
November 30th 2004Radiologists need to communicate with referring physicians more often and listen more closely to orthopedics surgeons’ reporting preferences, according to the results of University of California, San Diego survey that were announced Tuesday at the RSNA meeting.
Diffusion tensor imaging uncovers several keys to ADHD
November 29th 2004The disruption of dopamine transportation in brain white matter may be the underlying reason that children suffer from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. In addition, MR diffusion tensor imaging suggests that drug therapy repairs the damaged fiber bundles indicated in ADHD pathology.
Greater use of noncardiac pacemakers raises MR safety concerns
November 28th 2004The growing popularity of noncardiac pacemakers is putting additional pressures on radiologists to recognize them on MR imaging, check for their proper positioning and complications, and determine the MR compatibility of the various devices.