Pediatric Imaging

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Researchers Investigating Low-Field MRI for Babies With BPD
Oct. 28, 2025 — Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is the most common — and most serious — complication of extreme prematurity. Yet clinicians still lack a reliable way to measure the severity of the disease or predict which infants will need long-term respiratory support.
Nicklaus Children's Orthopedic, Sports Medicine and Spine Institute Now Providing Innovative 3D Imaging for Children
July 22, 2025 — The Nicklaus Children's Hospital recently opened a the new sta
Ultrasound Enhancing Agent Receives Pediatric Indication Approval from FDA
May 13, 2025-- GE HealthCare recently announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a pediatric indication for the company’s Optison (Perflutren Protein-Type A Microspheres Injectable Suspension, USP) ultrasound enhancing agent (UEA).
Cincinnati Children’s, GE HealthCare to Collaborate to Drive Pediatric Imaging
April 10, 2025 — Cincinnati Children’s and GE HealthCare will form a strategic research program focused on driving clinical and technical research to advance innovation for pediatric care delivery across modalities, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound, molecular imaging (MI)…
In Memoriam: Prolific Philanthropist Ann Lurie, Namesake of the Ann and Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
June 24, 2024 — Well-known Chicago and worldwide philanthropist Ann Lurie, namesake of the

News | Contrast Media

FDA Expands Approval of Low-Dose MRI Contrast Agent to Include Neonates and Infants

Feb. 23, 2026 — Bracco, a global leader in diagnostic imaging, recently announced that the U.S. Food and Drug ...

February 24, 2026

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) | Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Researchers Investigating Low-Field MRI for Babies With BPD

Oct. 28, 2025 — Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is the most common — and most serious — complication of extreme ...

October 31, 2025

News | Pediatric Imaging

Nicklaus Children's Orthopedic, Sports Medicine and Spine Institute Now Providing Innovative 3D Imaging for Children

July 22, 2025 — The Nicklaus Children's Hospital recently opened a the new state-of-the-art Nicklaus Children's ...

July 22, 2025

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Each MATR is a fully stocked sports medicine clinic and is operated by the athletic trainers at CHRISTUS Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Institute

Case Study | Digital Radiography (DR)

CHRISTUS Health Hits Texas Roads

Playing sports is good for all ages: it helps participants stay in shape, learn how to organize their time, and help ...

January 15, 2024

News | Ultrasound Imaging

Study Examines Use of ChatGPT-4 for Ultrasound-based Liver Diagnostics

July 1, 2025 — UPDATE: The final paper is now available at: JMIR AI - ChatGPT-4–Driven Liver Ultrasound Radiomics ...

July 01, 2025

News | Pediatric Imaging

Ultrasound Enhancing Agent Receives Pediatric Indication Approval from FDA

May 13, 2025-- GE HealthCare recently announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a pediatric ...

May 20, 2025

News | Pediatric Imaging

Cincinnati Children’s, GE HealthCare to Collaborate to Drive Pediatric Imaging

April 10, 2025 — Cincinnati Children’s and GE HealthCare will form a strategic research program focused on driving ...

April 10, 2025

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“Everybody cares about radiation dose, but the most sensitive to radiation are children, because they’re growing.” —Richard Towbin, M.D., Chief of Radiology, Phoenix Children’s Hospital

Case Study | Radiation Dose Management

The Challenge of Pediatric Radiation Dose Management

Medical imaging plays an increasing role in the accurate diagnosis and treatment of numerous medical conditions. The ...

April 09, 2020

News | Pediatric Imaging

Rady Children’s Announces Launch of New Innovative No-Cost 3D Model Viewing Technology

June 25, 2024 — Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, one of the nation’s top pediatric health care systems, today ...

June 25, 2024

Feature | Radiology Business

In Memoriam: Prolific Philanthropist Ann Lurie, Namesake of the Ann and Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

June 24, 2024 — Well-known Chicago and worldwide philanthropist Ann Lurie, namesake of the Ann and Robert H Lurie ...

June 24, 2024

In a newly-published study, researchers from the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) outline a novel approach to predicting cervical spine injuries in children that reduces the need for imaging by half, while ensuring injuries are not missed.

News | Pediatric Imaging

Study Finds Neck Injury Prediction Rule Could Decrease Imaging Exposure in Children

June 13, 2024 — Cervical spine injuries in children are relatively rare but can have serious consequences, like ...

June 13, 2024

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Videos | Pediatric Imaging

Fujifilm Launches New Pediatrics Solutions Portfolio

FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. and FUJIFILM SonoSite Inc., are offering a full-suite pediatric solutions ...

February 22, 2018

Ground-truth manual organ segmentations (yellow) vs. DynUNet-TL (green) and TotalSegmentator (red) predictions

News | Pediatric Imaging

DL Development, Validation for Abdominal CT Organ Segmentation in Children

May 15, 2024 — Transfer learning (TL) models trained on heterogeneous public datasets and fine-tuned using institutional ...

May 15, 2024

CHLA team helps validate guidelines promoting safer pediatric emergency department CT scans

News | Pediatric Imaging

Validated Rules Help Prevent Overuse of CT Scans for Diagnosing Traumatic Head and Abdominal Injuries in Kids

May 2, 2024 — Head and abdominal trauma is a leading cause of death for children. About 1%–2% of children who come to ...

May 02, 2024

New statement offers recommendations for when image-guided endovascular interventions are appropriate for treating children and teens

News | Pediatric Imaging

SIR Publishes New Position Statement on Interventional Radiology’s Role in Pediatric Trauma Care

April 16, 2024 — The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) has published a new position statement outlining best ...

April 16, 2024

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Children awaiting imaging studies play at an interactive wall in Children’s Hospital of Georgia

Blog | Computed Tomography (CT)

How Putting Patients At Ease Can Improve Care

It looked like the autistic child at the Children's Hospital of Georgia at Augusta University (AU) Health would have to ...

August 03, 2017

Lantheus announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) has approved DEFINITY (Perflutren Lipid Microsphere) as an ultrasound enhancing agent for use in pediatric patients with suboptimal echocardiograms, including those who have undergone heart transplant, or have Kawasaki disease or a congenital cardiovascular anomaly.

News | FDA

Lantheus Announces the FDA Approval of DEFINITY as Ultrasound Enhancing Agent for Use in Certain Pediatric Cardiovascular Patients

March 6, 2024 — Lantheus Holdings, Inc. (Lantheus), a radiopharmaceutical company, has announced that the U.S. Food and ...

March 06, 2024

InkSpace Imaging gets FDA clearance for its Siemens 3T MRI compatible Small body array

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

InkSpace Imaging receives FDA Clearance for a 24-channel Small Body Array Compatible with Siemens Healthineers 3T Systems

January 26, 2024 — InkSpace Imaging, a leader in innovative diagnostic medical device technology, is proud to announce ...

January 26, 2024

Sponsored Content | Case Study | Digital Radiography (DR)

CHRISTUS Health Hits Texas Roads

Playing sports is good for all ages: it helps participants stay in shape, learn how to organize their time, and help ...

January 15, 2024

From child-friendly head immobilization to more precise treatments, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is at the forefront of advancing pediatric radiation care

News | Pediatric Imaging

4 Innovations Improving Pediatric Radiation Therapy

December 1, 2023 — The Radiation Oncology Program at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is one of only a few in the country ...

December 01, 2023

Elbow images. In image on the left (10-year-old boy), growth plate has not yet fused. On the right (15-year-old boy), growth plate has fused. (Courtesy of Radiology)

News | Pediatric Imaging

Children Who Play Baseball Risk Elbow Injury

November 30, 2023 — Youth baseball players are prone to elbow pain and injuries, including repetitive overuse changes ...

November 30, 2023

Child undergoing pediatric MRI. (Courtesy of RadiologyInfo.org)

News | Pediatric Imaging

AI May Aid in Diagnosing Adolescents with ADHD

November 29, 2023 — Using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze specialized brain MRI scans of adolescents with and ...

November 29, 2023

An AI system that analyzes specialized MRIs of the brain accurately diagnosed children between the ages of 24 and 48 months with autism at a 98.5% accuracy rate

News | Artificial Intelligence

Novel AI System Could Diagnose Autism Much Earlier

November 21, 2023 — A newly developed artificial intelligence (AI) system that analyzes specialized MRIs of the brain ...

November 21, 2023

First participant of cohort 4 of the theranostic CL04 trial investigating 64Cu/67Cu SARTATE in neuroblastoma has been treated at the highest dose cohort of 375MBq/kg body weight using NorthStar’s electron accelerator-produced Cu-67, marking a key milestone in NorthStar’s agreement to exclusively supply Cu-67 to Clarity

News | Radiopharmaceuticals and Tracers

First Participant Treated Using NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes’ Electron Accelerator-produced Copper-67 (Cu-67) in Clarity Pharmaceuticals’ Phase I/IIa Theranostic Clinical Trial Investigating Cu-67 SARTATE for Treatment of Neuroblastoma

August 29, 2023 — NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, LLC (“NorthStar"), a global innovator in the development, production ...

August 29, 2023