July 14, 2009 - ACRIN has developed a qualification procedure for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanners at participating institutions designed to check the basic system calibrations and to verify that the clinical image quality is adequate for semiquantitative analysis of PET data, reported a paper published online in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 50, No. 7, on June 12, 2009.

July 14, 2009 - Researchers detected amyloid beta plaques with a diameter of less than 30 µm in a mouse brain by doing CT diffraction-enhanced imaging, according to researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, N.Y., and the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

July 14, 2009 - Circulating tumor cell (CTC) count could better predict the prognosis and survival in metastatic breast cancer (MBC) patients compared to FDG-PET/CT, according to a newly published report in the July 10 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

July 13, 2009 - The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) recently welcomed the newest members of the College of SIIM Fellows. They are James Anthony Seibert, Ph.D.; and Byrn Williamson Jr., M.D. The two were introduced by Steven C.

July 13, 2009 - Ultrasound outperforms symptom analysis in identifying overian cancer, reports a study in the article "The search for meaning-symptoms and TVS screening for ovarian cancer - Silent no more," published today in the online version of Cancer.

July 13, 2009 - A new study by Mayo Clinic researchers uses MRI-based differential diagnosis for identifying three common neurodegenerative disorders: Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, and Lewy body disease using Structural MRI.

July 13, 2009 - In a study performed at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, researchers found that the use of cardiac CT for low-risk chest pain patients in the emergency department, instead of the traditional standard of care (SOC) workup, may reduce a patient's length of stay and hospital charges.

July 10, 2009 – New British Heart Foundation (BHF) research(1) revealed today suggests for the first time that the way blood flows through our arteries may boost an antioxidant effect of statin medicines.