In the last decade, private office musculoskeletal (MSK) ultrasound swelled 717 percent, from 19,372 exams in 2000 to 158,351 in 2009, with podiatrists accounting for more than half of the growth, according to a study published in the February issue of Journal of the American College of Radiology. The findings led researchers to raise concerns about self-referral.

Lexington Clinic, a multispecialty group in Lexington, Ky., is notifying 1,018 patients of a privacy data breach, as a laptop was stolen from the groups neurology department on Dec. 7, 2011.

CT angiography (CTA) protocol developments designed to speed imaging and optimize arterial opacification may have an unintentional side effect and overestimate acute ischemic infarct size, according to a study published in the February edition of Radiology. The discrepancies could have inappropriately excluded up to 90 percent of eligible stroke patients from reperfusion therapy if they had been used to inform treatment decision making.

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) announced that Rick Schooler will be the recipient of the 2011 John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year award and that he will be presented with the award at the annual HIMSS conference on Feb. 23 in Las Vegas.

The malignancy rate for MR-detected breast masses less than or equal to 5 mm has been shown to be greater than 20 percent, indicating that these small masses should be viewed with a high degree of suspicion when seen in staging breast MRI exams, according to a study published in the January issue of Academic Radiology.

Capital Health, a hospital network based in New Jersey, has inked a contract with GE Healthcare to install GE's Discovery NM 750b at Capital Health Medical Center - Hopewell in Pennington, N.J.

Children at risk for dyslexia show differences in brain activity on functional MRI (fMRI) scans before they begin learning to read, according to a study published online Jan. 24 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A new magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) technique may offer a method to detect and track a protein associated with a genetic mutation in brain tumor cancer cells. The method could inform diagnosis of glioma and provide prognostic information, according to a study published online Jan. 26 in Nature Medicine.