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The FDA approved a lower-dose contrast agent to cut patients’ exposure during MRI scans

Patients who need repeated MRI scans with contrast dye could soon receive a fraction of the gadolinium they currently get. The FDA approved gadoquatrane, a new gadolinium-based contrast agent designed ...
Medscape

Dialysis Recommended to Prevent NSF After Gadolinium-Based Imaging in Severe Renal Failure

January 15, 2007 (updated March 6, 2007) — Following the recent US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warning about an association between gadolinium-based contrast agents and nephrogenic systemic ...
CBS News

Pregnant Women Should Avoid Gadolinium MRI Scans, Study Finds

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- There is new information about whether or not MRI scans are safe for pregnant women as the first large-scale study on the effect of MRI's on mother and baby has been released.
News Medical

AI could reduce gadolinium dosage in MRI scans

A new study has shown that artificial intelligence could be used to dramatically reduce the amount of gadolinium used in MRI scans. The findings, which are being presented today at the annual meeting ...
Healio

FDA approves Ambelvist MRI contrast agent with lower dose of gadolinium

The FDA has approved Ambelvist, a macrocyclic gadolinium-based option for contrast-enhanced MRI, now the lowest ...
Physics World

Artificial intelligence helps reduce gadolinium dose in MR imaging

Full-dose and low-dose (10%) MR images, and low-dose images enhanced by the deep learning algorithm. (Courtesy: Radiological Society of North America) A team headed up at Stanford University is using ...
Science Daily

Manganese-based MRI contrast agent may be safer alternative to gadolinium-based agents

Researchers have developed a manganese-based magnetic resonance imaging contrast agent, a potential alternative to gadolinium-based agents, which carry significant health risks for some patients. A ...
Nature

Gadolinium-based Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agents

Gadolinium-based contrast agents are integral to modern magnetic resonance imaging, enhancing diagnostic accuracy by shortening proton relaxation times and improving tissue contrast. Gadolinium(III) ...
Medscape

Reserve Gadolinium for MS Diagnosis Only?

The linear gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA) gadodiamide accumulates in the brain early in the course of multiple sclerosis (MS), but has no apparent clinical or radiologic impact, results of a ...
Medical Xpress

Gadolinium-enhanced MRI improves diagnostic accuracy and predicts polymyalgia rheumatica

According to new research findings presented this week at the 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting, use of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in shoulders of patients with polymyalgia ...
Medical Xpress

Gadolinium-enhanced MRI can differentiate Meniere from vestibular migraine

Gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the inner ear can help differentiate Meniere disease (MD) from vestibular migraine (VM), according to a study published online June 26 in The ...