''Leading the medical imaging community in supporting the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance's (MITA) Radiation Dose Reduction Plan and its CT Dose Check Initiative, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. installed the first AquilionTM ONE CT system ...'

''Screening heavy smokers with low-dose computer tomography (CT) instead of X-rays can reduce deaths from lung cancer by 20 percent, a massive US study released Thursday shows. Previous studies have shown that helical CT scanning can identify small ...'

''The Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) and the Society for Pediatric Radiology's Board of Directors recently approved new North American Guidelines for Radiopharmaceutical Doses for Children. These societies have expanded their pediatric radiation ...'

''Some nuclear-based breast imaging exams may increase a woman's risk of developing radiation-induced cancer, according to a special report appearing online and in the October issue of Radiology. However, the radiation dose and risk from mammography are ...'

''According to research revealed at the Society of Nuclear Medicine's 57th Annual Meeting, a multi-tracer molecular imaging technique using positron emission tomography (PET) provides detailed information about the physiological processes of cancerous ...'

''percent of all the radiation patients receive in the U.S. and today, at the Society for Nuclear Medicine annual meeting, Spectrum Dynamics announced it has begun clinical studies to show that its D-SPECT technology can accommodate significantly lower ...'

''Suited for longitudinal in vivo studies, Quantum FX provides researchers with 3D anatomical view of disease activity, tumor development, and therapeutic response over multiple time points during course of study. Speed, sensitivity, and dosage of CT ...'

''biospace med announced today that a 50-patient clinical study published in the current issue of the peer-reviewed medical journal Spine demonstrates that the Company's ultra-low-dose 2D/3D imaging system, EOS, shows 'significantly better' image ...'

''A large New York medical center reduced the number of CT scans and radiation dose delivered to emergency department patients with suspected pulmonary emboli (PE) by holding collaborative educational seminars for staff and routing patients to CT ...'

''The plan for broad use of X-ray body scanners to detect bombs or weapons under airline passengers' clothes has rekindled a debate about the safety of delivering small doses of radiation to millions of people - a process some experts say is certain to ...'