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ASTRO and ESTRO Issue Clinical Guideline on Local Therapy for Oligometastatic Lung Cancer

Imaging Technology

The guideline is published in Practical Radiation Oncology. The guideline emphasizes the need for a multidisciplinary team approach to guide treatment decisions for oligometastatic disease, a description for cancer that reaches a state in which the patient has a small number of metastases in addition to a primary tumor.

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GE HealthCare Closes MIM Software Acquisition

Imaging Technology

The availability of these offerings – including the MIM SurePlan and MIM Symphony families, MIM Maestro, MIM Encore, and more – is in alignment with GE HealthCare’s precision care strategy, which aims to deliver innovative digital solutions across care pathways for more precise, connected, and efficient care across disease states. "We

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PET Scans Reveal ‘smoldering’ Inflammation in patients with Multiple sclerosis

Imaging Technology

Microglia are immune cells in the brain that are thought to have a role in MS disease progression but cannot be seen by a routine MRI. Just as a smoldering fire can burn slowly without smoke or flame, smoldering inflammation may linger in patients with MS, driving disease progression and symptoms, even when it cannot be assessed on MRI.

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5 Recommendations to Achieve Excellence in Pediatric Medical Imaging

Everything Rad

With advance planning and an emphasis on learning, your facility can perform imaging studies with the same standard of care as a large children’s hospital. With advance planning and an emphasis on learning, your facility can perform imaging studies with the same standard of care as a large children’s hospital.

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ISMRM: What's next for MRI applications for MSK trauma?

AuntMinnie

Benjamin Fritz, MD, of Balgrist University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland. Fritz moderated a session titled "Seeing the Unseen: MRI in Traumatic Musculoskeletal Disease." Definitely toward increased use, according to Fritz. So where is radiology heading when it comes to using MRI for musculoskeletal trauma?

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AuntMinnie 2007: Gadolinium: A 'necessary factor' in the development of NSF?

AuntMinnie

Imagine going in for a diagnostic MRI scan and coming out with a progressive, irreversible, and potentially fatal disease. It certainly doesn't help matters that the disease has been linked to gadolinium-based contrast agents, a ubiquitous tool in the MR armamentarium. Louis hospital. In 2006 the U.S.

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Benefits Of Going To An Outpatient Imaging Center

Independent Imaging

Imaging services are an essential way to accurately diagnose injuries, medical conditions, and diseases. Outpatient imaging centers offer more relaxed, personalized service than hospitals and can offer many other benefits. What Is An Outpatient Imaging Center? This helps doctors recommend appropriate and effective treatments.

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