News & Updates

Check here regularly for news about medical imaging and updates from MITA.

• Industry News
  12.12.11

  Novel imaging device tells breast surgeons if they’ve left any tumor behind

  A new ultrasound device helps improve surgeons’ ability to complete a lumpectomy in one procedure, according to data presented this week at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in Texas.

• Industry News
  12.09.11

  Researchers Develop a Way to Monitor Engineered Blood Vessels as They Grow in Patients

  Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and nanoparticle technology, researchers from Yale have devised a way to monitor the growth of laboratory-engineered blood vessels after they have been implanted in patients. This advance represents an important step toward ensuring that blood vessels, and possibly other tissues engineered from a patient’s own biological material, are taking hold and working as expected. Until now, there has been no way to monitor the growth and progress of engineered tissues once they were implanted.

• Industry News
  12.08.11

  Radiation symposium: Dose tracking calls for collaboration, technology

  Experts from around the world convened in Washington, DC, today for a two-day symposium on finding better ways to track and utilize medical radiation dose. Collaboration is key, speakers said, because the problem of tracking radiation dose is so big that no single country or governmental agency can solve it alone.

• Industry News
  12.07.11

  Colon Cancer: Early Detection Is Key

  [E]arly detection is key. The problem is there are few outward signs that cancer is growing within your colon. Many of the signs or symptoms, such as constipation, diarrhea, vomiting, and fatigue, are often disregarded because they are thought to be the result of a cold or something less severe. Other signs and symptoms like blood in the stool, narrow stools, bleeding from the rectum, mucus in the stool, abdominal pain, pale skin, and weight loss are often ignored out of fear, denial, or ignorance.

• Industry News
  12.06.11

  Mammo screening reduces breast cancer mortality by almost half

  Women who receive at least three screening mammograms have a 49% lower risk of dying from breast cancer, according to a new study released online today in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).

• Industry News
  12.02.11

  Catching Colorectal Cancer

  “I’ve had a lot of people come in to see me to get their colon cancers removed and they’re kicking themselves going ‘you know my family doctor had told me to get this colonoscopy many years ago but something always came up and I never got it done and here I am’,” says Dr. Gaw.

• Industry News
  12.01.11

  RSNA 2011: Medical radiation’s risks overestimated, expert says

  Americans are exposed to more medical radiation than ever before. And for William Hendee, that’s a good thing.

  “Ladies and gentlemen, this is terrifically good news,” the distinguished medical physicist told attendees during a talk Wednesday at the Radiological Society of North America’s 2011 meeting in Chicago.

• Industry News
  11.30.11

  Study shows advanced imaging growth coming to an end

  “Previous studies have consistently shown advanced imaging studies to have experienced enormous growth over the past 10 to 20 years… But more recently, excess radiation exposure and high healthcare costs have captured the attention of patients, policymakers, providers, and the press — and the trend is shifting.

• Industry News
  11.29.11

  Radiologists say mammograms should start at 40

  “Family history does not seem to impact the rate of invasive disease in this particular patient group,” Destounis said. “Which leads us to believe that women, even those who don’t have a family history, could greatly benefit from a mammogram beginning in their early forties.”

• Industry News
  11.28.11

  The future of radiology is bright, RSNA president says

  There are obvious obstacles, but radiologists have been the incredibly fortunate beneficiaries of a diagnostic revolution that’s occurred over the past 40 years… Extraordinary equipment advances have made imaging the definitive diagnostic and screening tool. Innovation and leadership have been demonstrated in interventional therapeutics and bioinformatics. Radiologists use safer and more accurate contrast media. In addition, they have become research and administrative leaders.