According to some doctors based in California, an advanced technique for brain imaging may eventually replace functional MRI and change the scene of neuroimaging permanently. Physicians from the USC Keck School of Medicine in alliance with researchers from the California Institute of Technology created detailed images of the brain with the help of functional photoacoustic […]
Category: MRI
Some Referring Providers Hesitant with Radiologists Delivering their Imaging Result; others are fine
There is an increasing demand to push the visibility of radiologists by communicating imaging results to patients directly. However, further research reveals that patients and providers do not see an eye-to-eye on this subject, citing an individual move towards delivering imaging findings might be the best solution. Imaging results may be presented in several ways, […]
Hospital-Based MR And CT Imaging Coverage Officially Stopped By Cigna Just Like Two Other Major Players
It is now official- one of the largest commercial insurers in the US, Cigna will no longer cover most of the hospital-based MR and CT scans. While the proposal had been put forward by the company sometime earlier, it was briefly shelved owing to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The news about Cigna’s plans, which presently […]
Facebook and NYU Team Up To Make Fast MRIs
People who have undergone an MRI scan often explain their experience to be unsettling. You would be placed inside a claustrophobic tube and you have to lie still for as long as an hour as unseen hardware, creaks, thumps, and whirs around. However, new research suggests that AI could help with the predicament – it […]
Diagnostic Imaging Pay Continues To Drop Except Nuclear Medicine
Healthcare is one of the primary aspects that every nation needs to look after to keep the population healthy and working. The better the quality of a country’s human resources, the higher are the chances of the nation to ascend the stairs of success and prosperity. With phenomenal advancement in science and technology over the […]
Brain Iron Buildup Is Associated With Cognitive Decline In Alzheimer’s Patients
Brain health is integral to overall healthcare. There is no denying the fact that the brain is the one part of the body that remains responsible for the well-being of all other parts of the human body. If the brain fails to work optimally, the physiological activities get jeopardized as well. Hence, maintaining brain health […]
Teleradiology Is The Future
The Healthcare sector is one of the primary domains that ensure the overall health of the mass. No nation can think of sustainable growth if the human capital of the country is not healthy. And this is the very task the medical care sector has been entrusted with. To ensure good health, timely detection of […]
MRI Reveals New Neurological Patterns Related To Covid-19
In human history, only a few pandemics have been of a volume as overwhelming as the current COVID-19 one. It is a disease caused by the deadly coronavirus. Research has established that the communication potential of this virus can hardly be matched with any other, which makes the virus unique, lethal, and a health-wrecker. It […]
Push To Prevent the Revised Payment Policy In Medical Imaging
The imaging technology has changed the medical world beyond recognition. When the X-ray was first discovered in 1895, little did people think it would bring such a phenomenal change to the medical world. However, in less than a year, the German physicist Wilhelm Rontgen had already developed a system that used X-ray for imaging. Since […]
COVID-19 Brain MRI Findings Reveal Three Distinct Neurological Patterns
The Covid-19 has been one of the fastest spreading viruses in human history. What began as a local infection in a Chinese province, has now taken over the entire world, forcing people to stay indoors and give away their usual way of life. The pace of the spread of this new coronavirus, named as the […]