GE Healthcare has received FDA clearance for the Discovery MR750w wide-bore 3T MR system.

Teleradiology firm Virtual Radiologic (vRad) has named Pat Basu, MD, MBA, chief medical officer. He has just completed a one-year term in President Barack Obamas administration serving as a White House Fellow, a program for national leadership and public service.

The physical and psychological risks associated with pediatric MRI in a clinical study protocol are no greater for healthy children than risks they face from everyday activities, such as playing soccer or riding in motor vehicles, though the addition of intravenous contrast dye or sedation increases the odds of harm to unacceptable levels, according to a report appearing in IRB: Ethics and Human Research, a journal of The Hastings Center.

Patients with an ischemic lesion visible on diffusion-weighted MRI images, but not on fluid-attenuated inversion recovery MRI images, may be within the time window for safe and effective administrative of thrombolytic therapy, according to a study published online Oct. 5 in Lancet Neurology. The study also pointed to the possibility of an imaging biomarker to define a tissue window for stroke thrombolysis, according to an accompanying editorial.

Merge Healthcare has unveiled Merge Honeycomb, a cloud-based service to enable users to upload, download, view and share medical images.

Intraoperative MRI provides a method to improve the extent of resection of malignant brain tumors compared with the conventional microsurgical approach, according to a study published in the October issue of Lancet Oncology.

Agfa HealthCare is changing the name of Insight Agents to Agfa HealthCare Imaging Agents.

In an effort to increase cancer prevention education in the Hispanic population, researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) will use mobile technology to provide information that encourages nutritious eating and physical activity.