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PET/MRI
Breast Cancer: PET and MR Predict Chemotherapy’s Ability to Prolong Life

For patients with advanced breast cancer, positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging can improve quality of life and survival by providing physicians with information on the effectiveness of chemotherapy prior to surger...

Study Finds Radiation Oncology Research Critically Underfunded by NIH

Radiation oncology research received 197 grants, totaling only 1.6 percent ($85.5 million) of the $5.4 billion in cancer research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Fiscal Year (FY) 2013, according to a study available online...

Impact of Sequestration on the National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the nation’s medical research agency and the leading supporter of biomedical research in the world, said all of its clinical programs will be effected by $1.55 billion in NIH budget cuts due to se...

Twice as Many Early-Stage Lung Cancers Detected on Initial Screening With Low-Dose CT Compared to X-Ray

The results of the first (of three planned) annual low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) lung cancer screening examinations from the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) were recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Pre-Alzheimer’s: Metabolic Disorder Found in Cognitively...
Alzheimer’s disease has been linked in many studies to amyloid plaque buildup in the brain, but new research is finding a common thread between amyloid burden...
Molecular Imaging Smokers’ Vaccine Hurdle PET System
Molecular Imaging Finds Hurdle for Smokers’ Vaccine
Researchers have yet again been sent back to the drawing board in the development of the much-sought-after vaccination for smokers, which would hypothetically...
Dual Agent Scan Differentiates Diabetic Foot Disorders
By targeting both bone cell activity and immune response and improving imaging data interpretation, doctors can better distinguish diabetic foot infection from...
High Sugar Intake Low Dopamine Release Insulin Resistant Patients SNMMI 2013
High Sugar Intake Linked To Low Dopamine Release in Insulin...
Using positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of the brain, researchers have identified a sweet spot that operates in a disorderly way when simple sugars...

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Breast Cancer: PET and MR Predict Chemotherapy’s Ability to...
For patients with advanced breast cancer, positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging can improve quality of life and survival by...
colon cancer
Study Finds Radiation Oncology Research Critically...
Radiation oncology research received 197 grants, totaling only 1.6 percent ($85.5 million) of the $5.4 billion in cancer research funding from the National...
Impact of Sequestration on the National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the nation’s medical research agency and the leading supporter of biomedical research in the world, said all...
Twice as Many Early-Stage Lung Cancers Detected on Initial...
The results of the first (of three planned) annual low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) lung cancer screening examinations from the National Lung Screening...

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An Emerging Trend — Patient Satisfaction
Saving lives is no longer enough. Patients need to be satisfied. You might thank the recession for...
6 weeks 18 hours ago
The New Age of Personalized Medicine
We are seeing a semantic shift in medicine, one that is redefining personalized medicine from pie...
10 weeks 20 hours ago
MR “Fingerprinting” Promises Quick Screen for Disease
Only one radiological modality – mammography – is used today for screening. Yet, as America...
12 weeks 5 days ago
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Don’t Miss The Next LIVE Webinar! An Introduction To Cloud-Based Medical Image Exchange
  Seats are limited, register today Thursday, May 30, 2013 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT Interested in implementing cloud-based imaging solutions? As a first step, please join DICOM Grid’s Live...
Bedside Radiography-Into the Digital Age
Chip Truwit, MD, offers an overview of Bedside Radiography from a clinical perspective. He will review current radiographic challenges and their effects on bedside imaging, highlighting how new...
Iterative Reconstruction in CT: Understanding and Implementation
Radiation exposure from multidetector CT (MDCT) has become a pressing public health concern in both lay and medical publications. Implementation of iterative reconstruction offers radiologists the...

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