Personal injury attorneys rely on MRI scans and other types of diagnostic imaging to build their cases. But not every hospital or clinic has the experience, the infrastructure, and the staff to provide crucial evidence when you need it.   Precise Imaging specializes in working with legal professionals while providing their clients with friendly, patient-centered […]

Personal injury liens help victims obtain medical treatment and stay afloat financially while their case is being decided. While this agreement entitles medical centers to repayment after a case has been settled, it can be greatly beneficial to attorneys and their clients as well.   Because many people cannot afford to pay major unforeseen medical […]

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans can be crucial pieces of evidence in personal injury lawsuits. The detailed images can convince a jury or judge that an injury occurred as a result of an accident or negligence, rather than aging and genetics.   MRI scans are universally accepted by insurance companies and courts because of their […]

    As evidence-based medicine (EBM) evolved into value-based medicine (VBM) — the “practice of medicine based upon the patient-perceived value conferred by an intervention,” as Jong-Myon Bae defined it in the journal Epidemiology and Health — many referring physicians began to wonder about their choice of imaging providers.   Hospital-affiliated doctors can simply send […]

Preparing Patients to Read Their Own Radiology Reports   Increasingly, diagnostic imaging providers use web portals to give patients full access to their own radiology reports. Despite early fears that patients would misinterpret complex medical information, leading to unnecessary anxiety, most studies of direct access to radiology reports suggest that this is a positive step […]

Researchers have observed abnormal neural networks in preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) using a specialized magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique. The discovery gives hope that MRI scanning may one day allow early diagnosis, intervention, and treatment in ASD. The study included 21 children with ASD and 21 children with typical development (TD). It took […]

How MRI Scans Can Reduce the Need for Biopsies   Researchers at the Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center have authored a study detailing a multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) technique that predicts a malignant type of kidney cancer without performing a biopsy. The results of the method are impressive, but require more refinement to fully take […]

Open-Source MRI Dataset from USC Now Available to Researchers   The University of Southern California has released an open-source dataset of anatomical brain images taken from MRIs of stroke victims. The dataset is intended to spur advances in machine learning by providing a large set of manually-traced lesions.   Manually-traced lesions are useful, but labor […]

More than 65 percent of U.S. women aged 40 and over had mammograms between 2013 and 2015, and all of them were protected by a little-known 1992 law called the Mammography Quality Standards Act, or MQSA. Understanding this law is important for radiologists and referring physicians alike, so they can explain it to assure patients […]

Patients with pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) may safely receive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) testing according to a study from the New England Journal of Medicine. Currently, implanted devices must meet the Food and Drug Administration’s criteria to be considered MRI-conditional. The pacemakers and ICDs that do not meet these requirements are considered legacy devices, […]