Thank You For Attending The 2010 Annual Course!
March 7 - 11, 2010
Hilton Bayfront - San Diego, CA
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News
Joseph Schoepf, MD, FSCBTMR Responds to ABC Reporter Regarding JACC, "Cumulative Exposure to Ionizing Radiation from Diagnostic and Therapeutic Cardiac Imaging Procedure" click here
ACR, SCBTMR Statement on Recent NEJM Article on CT Scan Safety
Reston, VA – June 29, 2010 - Direct FDA jurisdiction over how CT scanners are used — including radiation dose requirements — as suggested recently by an article published online in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), is likely a logistical impossibility given number of scanner types, scanner generations, and the variety of indications for which medical imaging serves an appropriate role. Click here for full statement.
Joseph Schoepf, MD, FSCBTMR Responds to NEJM, "Is Computed Tomography Safe?" click here
New 2010-2011 Officers Elected
Members of the Society elected new officers to serve for the 2010-2011. Dr. William P. Shuman of the University of Washington became president of the Society on March 9, 2010.
SCBT-MR Honors at 33rd Annual Course
Twenty-Three Scientific Papers were presented at the 2010 SCBT-MR Annual Course in San Diego, California. The Society presented its highest awards to researchers from the UMC St. Radboud Nijmegen, Stanford University Medical Center, and the Massachusetts General Hospital.
New AMA CPT Codes: Cardiac CT No Longer “Emerging Technology”
The American Medical Association (AMA) has announced four new Category I CPT® codes for cardiac CT. These new codes, effective Jan. 1, 2010, replace current Category III “T” CPT codes under which cardiac CT had been considered an “emerging technology”. (read more)
The War Over Imaging
Response to NEJM Article by Joseph Schoepf, MD
The current contribution in the New England Journal of Medicine is the latest installment of articles in high profile journals that make the case against medical imaging citing concerns over increasing radiation exposure as the authors’ motivation. (read more)
ACRIN National Trial Demonstrates Comparable Accuracy of CT Colonography and Standard Colonoscopy
See Dr. Judy Yee's summary of the NEJM article here
The SCBT-MR is very proud that one of our Fellows, C. Daniel Johnson, is the lead author of this landmark work in the New England Journal of Medicine (N Engl J Med 2008;359:1207-17), which also includes five additional SCBT-MR Fellows as co-authors.
Statement of the SCBT-MR Regarding the FDA Notification on CT Causing Electronic Device Malfunction. (click here for statement)
On July 14th, 2008, the FDA issued a Public Health Notification regarding possible malfunction of electronic medical devices caused by CT. We have attached that Notice as a pdf file and have reproduced an excerpt below. click here for the direct link.
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