• Appropriating Imaging — What Can/Should Radiology Do to Control Imaging Volume?
• Minimally Invasive Oncology — IR Researchers Expanding Cancer Care
• Radiology Today Interview: Rebecca Smith-Bindman, MD — Dose Reduction in Medical Imaging
• Tracking the Tip — Improving Accuracy for Needle Biopsies
• Informed Consent
• PET Makes a Case for Expanded Heart Failure Role
• ACRIN Activates PET/CT Staging of Head and Neck Cancer Trial
• Radiology Today Digital Edition

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One of most interesting things about attending the Society of Interventional Radiology meeting is seeing how the researchers in this subspecialty develop treatments where they didn’t previously exist. Whether doctors had tried all available treatments or the patient is not a candidate for surgery—as described below—it has to be rewarding for the physicians who conceive, develop, and deliver ways to treat people who had basically run out of good options.

— Jim Knaub, editor

Reducing Stroke Risk

A device using two angioplasty balloons to temporarily block blood flow to the brain while placing carotid stents in high surgical-risk patients offers a safe and effective way to prevent stroke from occurring during treatment, according to research released at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s 35th Annual Scientific Meeting in Tampa, Fla. last month.

“The Mo.Ma device, which uses balloons that are inflated and act like endovascular surgical clamps to protect the brain during the procedure, provides a treatment option for patients who may not be healthy enough to undergo surgery—for example, those with severe heart or lung disease or those who have had neck operations or radiation for neck tumors,” said Barry T. Katzen, MD, FSIR, medical director of Baptist Cardiac and Vascular Institute in Miami. “The Mo.Ma device provides an important alternative to surgery for stroke prevention.”

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Appropriating Imaging — What Can/Should Radiology Do to Control Imaging Volume?
Growth in imaging volume and cost has caught the attention of both public and private payers, producing efforts to contain expenditures. While test-ordering physicians outside of radiology drive much of this growth, imaging organizations bear the brunt of reimbursement cuts. What can—and should—radiology do to control imaging volume? Read more »

Minimally Invasive Oncology — IR Researchers Expanding Cancer Care
Interventional radiologists are pursuing less-invasive treatments for cancers, including some that oncology has not yet found effective ways to treat. This report from the Society of Interventional Radiology annual meeting highlights research efforts offering options (or future options) for previously inoperable tumors. Read more »

Radiology Today Interview: Rebecca Smith-Bindman, MD — Dose Reduction in Medical Imaging
Consistently reducing radiation dose in diagnostic imaging begins with measuring how much radiation the patient receives in an exam. Smith-Bindman and colleagues have done research in this area, and she has some clear views on how radiology can go about reducing the radiation patients received in the imaging suite. Read more »

Tracking the Tip — Improving Accuracy for Needle Biopsies
A transponder in the needle tip and GPS-like tracking may help physicians provider better biopsies. Read more »

Informed Consent
Our risk management series offers good advice on handling informed consent in day-to-day imaging. Read more »

PET Makes a Case for Expanded Heart Failure Role
Using PET to help assess myocardial viability reduced the cardiac event rate by more than 60% compared with conventional management, according to a Canadian study. Read more

ACRIN Activates PET/CT Staging of Head and Neck Cancer Trial
A new arm of this ACRIN study is under way. Read more

Will Virtual Colonoscopy Detect or Colon Cancer or Give It to You?
The debate continues. Read more

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