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While it is not without risks, optical colonoscopy (OC) has long been the gold standard for colorectal cancer screening.
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Accompanying the growing demand for radiological services across the country is the growing physical size of the patients requesting those services. This demand has brought new challenges in terms of obesity and radiology. Can good quality images be obtained from an obese patient, and can that obese patient even fit on a machine?
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For years, Robert Lefsrud, MD, a radiologist with a subspecialty in neuroradiology and musculoskeletal radiology, was a member of a large and busy radiology group providing services in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. Two years ago, he and a colleague decided to branch out and form their own company, St. Croix Radiology Consultants in Dellwood, MN.
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With initial safety trials of the world's most powerful MRI system completed, clinicians are one step closer to accessing real-time images of biological processes in the brain.
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With the dramatic increases in the use of CT in recent years, people are questioning whether all these tests are really necessary or whether they are just driving up health care expenses.
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There is no denying that the use of CT scans has increased dramatically since CT was first introduced in the 1970s. According to some estimates, the number of CT scans performed in the United States has grown from 3 million per year in 1980 to more than 62 million per year today, as the technology has become increasingly available and easy to use.
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Numerous trials have shown that ultrasound offers certain advantages over other imaging technologies in determining whether some lesions are cancerous. However, data presented thus far are less convincing when ultrasound is used as a screening methodology.
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MRI indicated at diagnosis:
in a woman with newly diagnosed breast cancer, at risk of multifocality, to assess the need for mastectomy or lumpectomy;
