 CT 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 CT across the healthcare continuum, from various cancer screenings, such as lung and colon, to cardiothoracic imaging, to appendicitis, and more.

Articles

PSMA PET is highly robust in identifying prostate cancer lesions which are otherwise deemed unremarkable. 

Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen PET Bests MRI in Biochemical Recurrent Disease 

Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma may benefit from early PET/CT imaging after transarterial radioembolization to predict treatment response and survival, a new study found.

Early PET/CT Can Help Predict Treatment Response, Survival of Patients with Liver Cancer

Clinicians taking care of patients with high-risk prostate cancer being assessed for prostatectomy can use a positive PET scan as a true positive, but a negative scan cannot be used to exclude disease or inform nodal dissection. 

PET Imaging Helps Guide Patient Selection for Radical Prostatectomy  

Videos

Diagnostic Imaging sat down with medical physicist and CT expert Cynthia H. McCollough, PhD, to learn more about the history of CT and its expanding potential in medical imaging. 

50 Years of CT: Then, Now, and What’s to Come 

The approval represents the first major technological advance in CT in nearly a decade.

FDA Clears Siemens’ New CT Scanner With Photon-Counting Detector 

Screening for COVID-19 exposure, particularly for patients with cancer on active treatment, has become a priority during the pandemic. 

CT Guidance During Lung Cancer Radiation Therapy May ID COVID-19 Patients

Clinicians, especially those working in a region of high COVID-19 prevalence, should be aware that FDG PET/CT can detect lung and lymph node findings suggestive of COVID-19.

FDG PET/CT May Help Predict COVID-19 Disease Severity

Whitney J. Palmer has been with Diagnostic Imaging since 2011, serving as the Senior Editor since November 2019. She has 20 years experience in healthcare and academic medicine reporting.


Both board-certified radiologists and radiology residents more appropriately suggested chest CT follow-up when using artificial intelligence with chest X-ray.

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