A recent abstract study has revealed that a breath test for unpredictable organic compounds accurately detected lung cancer in high risk patients and typified its subtype. The test had C-statistics of 0.824 to 0.874 for an assortment of cancer subtypes compared with controls; 0.8 or better on the 1...

Based on a study published online in the October issue of Radiology, analyzing breast density at CT of the chest could provide additional information on a patient's risk evaluation for breast cancer. Mary Salvatore, MD, of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, and her peers conducted...

A team of pediatric neurosurgeons and neuroradiologists at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center have developed a technique of reducing harmful radiation exposure in children with a condition that calls for supplemental CT scans of the brain. The team claims to have effectively cut the rate of radiati...

A large scale study of computed tomographic (CT) scans taken in emergency departments across the country for children with head injuries depicts the pervasiveness of "incidental findings," results that were unanticipated from the injury and classifies them based on severity. The article, titled "...

A new study instigated and led by Terry Fox Research Institute(TFRI) has developed a new clinical risk calculator software that precisely  identifies (nine times out of ten), which lesions or spots are benign and which are malignant on an initial lung computed tomography (CT) scan among patients ...

A study in the open access journal Critical Care suggests that administering severe trauma patients a computed tomography (CT) scan prior to managing their bleeding could improve their chances of survival. However, the findings conflict with current guidelines, and therefore contribute to the contin...

USA, August 25, 2013 - Dr. William W. Orrison, Chief of Neuroradiology, at Nevada Imaging Centers, calls his new Aquilion ONE volume CT System “Amazing,” a scientific breakthrough in medical imaging. Las Vegans can be proud to have one of the few Aquilion ONE CT Systems in the United States. D...

Northwest Community Healthcare (NCH) is prepared to offer early lung cancer screening programs for both current and former smokers. Non-smokers are eligible to receive an early screening as well, however it has been noted that lung cancer has a higher chance of being contracted by current or former ...

SIEMENS, UK, August 19, 2013 - Siemens Healthcare has launched its new BiographTM mCT Flow – a groundbreaking PET-CT system. For the first time ever the system overcomes the limitations of conventional bed-based PET-CT with FlowMotion, an innovative new technology that moves the patient smoothly ...

A new platform that presents the ability to alter how molecular imaging is performed has been revealed and developed by Siemens Healthcare. Siemens recently unveiled the Symbia Intevo™, the world's first xSPECT system. It unites the high sensitivity of single-photon emission computed tomography (...