Contrast Media
Contrast media, also called contrast agents, are used to enhance the blood and perfusion in tissues. This includes iodine based contrast for on computed tomography (CT), gadolinium based agents for MRI and lipid bubble contrast agents used in ultrasound.
News | Contrast Media | September 07, 2017
September 7, 2017 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a meeting of the Medical Imaging Drugs Advisory...
Technology | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) | September 06, 2017
September 6, 2017 — Guerbet LLC USA announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Dotarem (...
News | Contrast Media | August 29, 2017
August 29, 2017 — The European Medicines Agency (EMA) issued a final opinion that recommended restricting the use of...
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Blog | Contrast Media | October 20, 2020
Transitioning to a new device vendor can provide improvements to outdated technology and workflow. It also requires a...
News | Contrast Media | August 15, 2017
August 15, 2017 — The International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) has provided new guidance in the...
Feature | Contrast Media | July 28, 2017 | By Dave Fornell
Here are several updates in medical imaging contrast media agents. Two of the biggest news items were related to safety...
News | Contrast Media | July 18, 2017
July 18, 2017 — Guerbet recently announced that it will phase out sales throughout the world of two products: Hexabrix...
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Blog | Contrast Media Injectors | August 20, 2020
In a busy hospital imaging department, maintaining high device uptime levels is critical. If an injector malfunctions...
News | Contrast Media | July 17, 2017
July 17, 2017 — The American College of Radiology (ACR) recently revised its authoritative guide for the safe and...
Technology | CT Angiography (CTA) | June 16, 2017
June 16, 2017 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the indication for GE Healthcare’s imaging...
Feature | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) | May 25, 2017
May 25, 2017 — A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review of the safety ramifications of gadolinium-based...
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A volume of contrast agent lingers near the injection site, creating an artifact that can block the visualization of structures. Graphic courtesy of Lior Molvin
Blog | Contrast Media | October 15, 2019
When it comes to listing needs, patient safety ranks at the top. Just ask an imaging administrator.
“There is no way we...
The ZD2-Gd probe, represented by the orange ball and green arrow, binds to the EDB-FN in the prostate cancer cells with high metastatic potential. This results in a strong MRI signal (upper right). Prostate cancer cells with low metastatic potential have no EDB-FN and so there is no MRI signal (lower right). Credit: Han, et al., Bioconjug Chem-Apr-2017
News | Prostate Cancer | May 24, 2017
May 24, 2017 — A research team funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) has...
News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) | May 03, 2017
May 3, 2017 — Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a novel nanodiamond-based...
Sponsored Content | Case Study | Contrast Media Injectors | April 13, 2017
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The volume of computed tomography (CT) imaging exams continues to grow in the...
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Characteristics nephrologists associate with renal high-risk patients. (n=13)
Feature | Contrast Media | September 05, 2019
The global rise in chronic disease has significantly increased demand for diagnostic imaging procedures, and in turn,...
News | Contrast Media | March 13, 2017
March 13, 2017 — The Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) of the European Medicines Agency recently...
(a) Photograph of the sample in waterbath. (b) Empty image of full MuCLS beam. (c) Quasi-mono-energetic angiography image of a porcine heart acquired at the MuCLS, with iodine-based contrast agent injected into the left coronary artery. Visible are the left anterior descending artery (LAD) and the left circumflex artery (LCX). Image courtesy of the authors.
News | Angiography | March 10, 2017
March 10, 2017 — The most prevalent method for obtaining images of clogged coronary vessels is coronary angiography....
Feature | Contrast Media Injectors | March 02, 2017 | By Jeff Zagoudis
With medical imaging use on the rise, contrast media use is expected to grow as well, according to a May 2016 report...
Technology | Contrast Media | February 02, 2017
February 2, 2017 — Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of a label...
A new study in Annals of Emergency Medicine finds no association between intravenous contrast media used in computed tomography (CT) and kidney damage. Roughly 80 million doses of IV contrast media are given every year. Credit: American College of Emergency Physicians
News | Contrast Media | January 30, 2017
January 30, 2017 — Intravenous contrast media (typically iohexol or iodixanol) used in computed tomography (CT) does...
Videos | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) | December 12, 2016
Emanuel Kanal, M.D., director of MRI services and professor of radiology and neuroradiology at the University of...
News | Contrast Media | December 09, 2016
At the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA 2016), Bracco Diagnostics Inc. showcased...
Technology | Contrast Media Injectors | December 05, 2016
December 5, 2016 — Bracco Diagnostics Inc. announced that CT Exprès — the first and only multi-dose, multi-patient,...
