The Diagnostic Imaging MRI 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 MRI across the healthcare continuum, including breast, neurological, cardiovascular, prostate imaging, and more.
September 5th 2024
In a study involving 396 confirmed neuroendocrine tumor liver metastases, researchers found that Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI offered 19 percent higher sensitivity than polyenergetic CT.
2023 ASCO Direct™ Highlights: Practice-Changing Data From the Leading Oncology Conference
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Satellite Symposia at the Annual Radiation Oncology Meeting
September 28-29, 2024
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6th Annual Precision Medicine Symposium: An Illustrated Tumor Board
October 18-19, 2024
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Community Practice Connections™: 24th Annual International Lung Cancer Congress®
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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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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 24-26, 2025
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Endorectal coils boost accuracy of MR prostate cancer diagnosis
December 1st 2004Patients hate endorectal coils. But results presented at RSNA 2004 show without equivocation that the devices boost the diagnostic confidence of imaging studies critical to determining how prostate disease should be properly managed.
Survey identifies orthopedists’ preferences for MR knee reports
November 30th 2004Radiologists need to communicate with referring physicians more often and listen more closely to orthopedics surgeons’ reporting preferences, according to the results of University of California, San Diego survey that were announced Tuesday at the RSNA meeting.
Diffusion tensor imaging uncovers several keys to ADHD
November 29th 2004The disruption of dopamine transportation in brain white matter may be the underlying reason that children suffer from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. In addition, MR diffusion tensor imaging suggests that drug therapy repairs the damaged fiber bundles indicated in ADHD pathology.
Greater use of noncardiac pacemakers raises MR safety concerns
November 28th 2004The growing popularity of noncardiac pacemakers is putting additional pressures on radiologists to recognize them on MR imaging, check for their proper positioning and complications, and determine the MR compatibility of the various devices.
Brain regions battle for decision-making dominance
November 22nd 2004You’re offered a giant bowl of rocky road ice cream on Thanksgiving, but you’d like to lose 15 pounds by New Year’s Day. What do you do? Princeton University researchers have discovered that two separate brain areas are involved in the decision to choose short-term satisfaction or settle for long-term happiness.
Functional MRI speeds development of psychiatric drugs
November 4th 2004Drug manufacturers are increasingly relying on functional MRI to help assess the efficacy of psychiatric drugs. It could potentially save millions of dollars and help speed effective drugs to the marketplace, according to speakers at the Horizon Seminar “Imaging and Healthcare: The Future” held last month in Cambridge, U.K.
Government funds huge neuroimaging study for Alzheimer’s
October 14th 2004The government today announced its participation in one of the largest initiatives to date to determine effective neuroimaging techniques that will help chart brain changes associated with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease. The announcement comes barely two weeks after Medicare agreed to reimburse for PET studies of suspected Alzheimer’s patients.
Commentary: The democratization of CT -- and MR
October 13th 2004If you think cardiology is the only opportunity for niche CT, think again. CT could well be on the verge of a major change in usage fomented not by technology but by perspective. And MR might not be far behind. As happens so often, history will guide the way.
MR perfusion determines degree of coronary stenoses
October 11th 2004Quantitative myocardial first-pass perfusion can distinguish coronary artery stenoses with a high degree of specificity and negative predictive value. This noninvasive test offers an alternative to diagnostic catheterization to grade the severity of coronary artery disease, according to a presentation last week at the North American Society of Cardiac Imaging meeting in Amelia Island, FL.
Cardiac MR perfusion -- with some help -- assesses coronaries
October 8th 2004MR perfusion imaging, along with intracoronary pressure data, may help identify hemodynamically relevant coronary artery diseases, according to a study presented this week at the North American Society for Cardiac Imaging meeting in Amelia Island, FL.
Cardiology needs radiology’s equipment to train MR fellows
October 6th 2004Cardiology fellows may find their cardiovascular MR training inadequate compared with nuclear and vascular imaging, according to a study by the American College of Cardiology Foundation. The lack of CMR equipment and/or curricula concerns the ACCF because recently revised training guidelines require a minimum exposure to the modality.
Cardiology needs radiology’s equipment to train MR fellows
October 4th 2004Cardiology fellows may find their cardiovascular MR training inadequate compared with nuclear and vascular imaging, according to a study conducted by the American College of Cardiology Foundation. The lack of CMR equipment and/or curricula concerns the ACCF because recently revised training guidelines require a minimum exposure to the modality.
Dedicated lab takes advantage of 3D imaging capacity
October 1st 2004Busy schedules may prevent radiologists from taking full advantage of 3D imaging data, so the 3D Imaging Service and Radiology Computer Aided Diagnostics Laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital is stepping up to the postprocessing bat. The lab uses a full-time staff to provide support to radiology departments and the rest of the hospital.
Large-bore 9.4T scanner begins operating at University of Illinois
September 29th 2004The MR community has a new king of the hill. The University of Illinois at Chicago on Sept. 21 began operating a 9.4T MR scanner. The scanner, the most powerful such machine in the world for human studies, reveals not only anatomy but metabolism.The custom-built scanner will help make UIC’s new Center for Magnetic Resonance Research a premier international center for human brain research, according to center director Dr. Keith Thulborn.
'Free' MR scanners in U.K. come with hidden price tag
September 28th 2004A lottery fund in the U.K. has enabled the purchase of about $72 million worth of MR equipment for hospitals throughout the country. Unfortunately, many scanners are lying idle, as the charitable contribution did not include operating expenses.