The Diagnostic Imaging CT modality focus page provides information, videos, podcasts, and the latest news about industry product developments, trial results, screening guidelines, and protocol guidance that touch on the use of CT across the healthcare continuum, from various cancer screenings, such as lung and colon, to cardiothoracic imaging, to appendicitis, and more.
November 20th 2024
While a large retrospective study found that interstitial lung abnormalities (ILAs) were evident on 1.7 percent of computed tomography (CT) scans, researchers found that 43.9 percent of ILAs, including fibrotic ILAs, were not reported.
19th Annual New York Lung Cancers Symposium®
November 16, 2024
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Medical Crossfire®: How Does Recent Evidence on PARP Inhibitors and Combinations Inform Treatment Planning for Prostate Cancer Now and In the Future?
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Medical Crossfire®: How Do the Experts Select and Sequence Therapies to Optimize Patient Outcomes and Quality of Life in Advanced Prostate Cancer?
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Lung Cancer Tumor Board®: Enhancing Multidisciplinary Communication to Optimize Immunotherapy in Stage I-III NSCLC
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Clinical Vignettes™: The Experts Explain How They Integrate PET Imaging into Metastatic HR+ Breast Cancer Care Settings
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School of Breast Oncology® Live Video Webcast: Clinical Updates from San Antonio
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Annual Hawaii Cancer Conference
January 25-26, 2025
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21st Annual International Symposium on Melanoma and Other Cutaneous Malignancies®
February 8, 2025
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Community Practice Connections™: The 2nd Annual Hawaii Lung Cancers Conference®
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18th Annual New York GU Cancers Congress™
March 28-29, 2025
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Clinical Case Vignette Series™: 41st Annual Miami Breast Cancer Conference®
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Medical Crossfire®: How Can Thoracic Teams Facilitate Optimized Care of Patients With Stage I-III EGFR Mutation-Positive NSCLC?
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Lung Cancer Tumor Board®: How Do Emerging Data for ICIs, BiTEs, ADCs, and Targeted Strategies Address Unmet Needs in the Therapeutic Continuum for SCLC?
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26th Annual International Lung Cancer Congress®
July 25-26, 2025
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2025 International Symposium of Gastrointestinal Oncology (ISGIO)
September 12-13, 2025
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Lung Cancer Tumor Board: Enhancing Precision Medicine in NSCLC Through Advancements in Molecular Testing and Optimal Therapy Selection
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(CME Credit Only) New Frontiers in Immunotherapy for SCLC: Insights From Latest Clinical Trials and Their Application in Real-World Treatment
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(MOC and CME Credit) New Frontiers in Immunotherapy for SCLC: Insights From Latest Clinical Trials and Their Application in Real-World Treatment
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(CME Credit Only) Lung Cancer Tumor Board®: The Pivotal Role of Multimodal Therapy in Leveraging Immunotherapy for Stage I-III NSCLC When the Goal Is Cure
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(MOC and CME Credit) Lung Cancer Tumor Board®: The Pivotal Role of Multimodal Therapy in Leveraging Immunotherapy for Stage I-III NSCLC When the Goal Is Cure
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Incidental CT Findings Handled Inconsistently - Even at Top Institutions
November 2nd 2011Agreement is lacking - both across institutions and within departments - for the management of six commonly encountered incidental findings on body CT, concludes a study in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Departments should develop guidelines to ensure consistent patient recommendations, authors said.
New Radiation Shielding Superior to Lead for CT Scans
October 27th 2011New custom-designed patient shielding devices should supplant traditional lead aprons for chest CT scans - and possibly every scan, regardless of body part. That’s according to the authors of a new study published in the British Journal of Radiology.
CT Lung Screening Beats X-Ray - Now What?
October 12th 2011Heavy smokers screened for lung cancer with low-dose helical CT scans had a 20 percent lower mortality risk than those screened with standard X-ray, according to a large scale study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. So should the lung cancer screening policy change?
Iterative Reconstruction in CT Evolves for Lower Dose, Increased Clarity
October 12th 2011Radiologists have been struggling to balance image noise with radiation dose in computed tomography (CT) scans for decades. But the competition just went up a notch (or perhaps many notches) with the recent FDA approval of GE Healthcare’s Model Based Image Reconstruction (MBIR) technology, Veo. While MBIR is the most recent of the iterative reconstruction technologies, top manufacturers offer their own software answers to the noise versus dose argument.
Flash CT Speeds Diagnosis with Less Radiation
August 24th 2011Adenosine stress 128-slice dual source computed tomography perfusion imaging (CTP) with a high pitch factor appears to provide faster, more accurate heart scans for both viewing blood vessels in the heart and measuring blood supply to the heart muscle - while exposing patients to less radiation, researchers report in Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, a journal of the American Heart Association.
Radiology’s Beauty on Display at American Museum of Natural History
June 24th 2011"Picturing Science: Museum Scientists and Imaging Technologies," an exhibition of more than 20 sets of striking large-format prints, showcases advanced imaging technologies used by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and reveals once-hidden, intricate details of both natural phenomena and cultural artifacts.
CT Colonography Equal to Optical Colonoscopy, says Study
May 4th 2011CT colonography is a better screening test than optical colonoscopy (OC), according to a new study published in the May Radiology print issue. Using meta-analysis of studies done over a 15 year period, authors found that the sensitivity of CT colonography for colorectal cancer detection was 96.1 percent, compared with 94.7 percent for OC.