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Italian research team shows the way on sustainability

AuntMinnie

Whole-body MRI is emerging as a superior tool for assessing bone marrow and monitoring therapy response in advanced breast cancer. Additionally, modalities like MRI, CT, bone scans, and PET-CT are significant contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, with radiology accounting for approximately 1% of global healthcare-related emissions.

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Will new CPT codes spark utilization of quantitative MRI?

AuntMinnie

Efforts to bring quantitative MRI analysis into clinical practice received a boost with the availability of two new Category III Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes for brain MRI. Effective January 1, 2024, the new codes, 0865T and 0866T, support the use of software to analyze brain MRI exams with comparison to prior studies.

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Generative AI, radiologist shortages feature in 2024 Minnies

AuntMinnie

Middlebrooks' research interest consists of using ultrahigh-field, 7-tesla MRI to plot brain microstructure and develop surgical treatment of brain tumors, epilepsy, and neurodegenerative and movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and dystonia. Middlebrooks, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL.

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New guidelines cover theranostics for brain tumors

AuntMinnie

These SSTRs can be targeted both with gallium-68 (Ga-68) imaging agents and therapeutic lutetium-177 (Lu-177) radiopharmaceuticals using a so-called theranostics approach. In addition, a recent study demonstrated the cost-effectiveness of Ga-68 DOTATATE PET/MRI in the management of meningiomas in a U.S. In the U.S.,

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Meet the Minnies 2024 finalists

AuntMinnie

His research interests include using structural and functional MRI -- particularly ultrahigh-field, 7-tesla MRI -- to map brain microstructure and develop neurosurgical treatment of brain tumors, epilepsy, and neurodegenerative and movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and dystonia.

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Celebrating 20 Years of Innovation: UCSF’s Center for Molecular and Functional Imaging

UCSF Biomedical Imaging

In 2003, the Center for Molecular and Functional Imaging (CMFI) at China Basin Landing opened its doors with San Francisco’s first 3T MRI and two 1.5T clinical scanners, followed a few years later by a cyclotron which launched our in-house radiopharmaceutical program.

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Blue Earth Diagnostics, a Bracco Company, Appoints Marco Campione as Chief Executive Officer

Imaging Technology

I congratulate Marco Campione on this CEO appointment and we look forward to drawing upon his strategic, operational and broad general business expertise as we increase our global leadership throughout the diagnostic radiopharmaceutical industry,” said Fulvio Renoldi Bracco, CEO of Bracco Imaging. Bracco Imaging S.p.A.,