News tagged with medical diagnostic imaging
Medicare payments for medical imaging are higher to nonradiologist physicians than to radiologists
Researchers have found that Medicare payments for non-invasive medical imaging, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scans, are now higher to non-radiologists than to radiologists, according ...
Jan 04, 2011 |
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Common for patients to undergo multiple cardiac imaging tests, with high cumulative radiation dose
Multiple testing with the cardiac diagnostic imaging technique of myocardial perfusion imaging is common, and in many patients is associated with a high cumulative estimated radiation dose, according to a study in the November ...
Nov 15, 2010 |
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MRI: Non-invasive diagnostic tool for diagnosing testicular cancer
Researchers have found that non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a good diagnostic tool for the evaluation and staging of testicular cancer and may improve patient care by sparing some men unnecessary surgery, ...
Feb 22, 2010 |
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New genre of sugar-coated 'quantum dots' for drug delivery
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Switzerland are reporting an advance that could help tap the much-heralded potential of “quantum dots”— nanocrystals that glow when exposed to ultraviolet light — in the treatment of cancer ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 04, 2009 |
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