By Placing a short bore 1.5T MRI in Lake City Community Hospital, formerly used by the hospital system as a "feeder" to a distant larger hospital, high-field MRI is now close to home for patients and a new profit center for the hospital.

IMV Medical Information Division 2006 CT report states CT procedures climbed from 50.0 million to an estimated 62.0 million from 2003 to 2006. An annualized rate of 8% per year.

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CT Screening for Lung Cancer Questioned Again

An article from the American Journal of Roentgenology sited research from the International Early Lung Screening Cancer Action Program (I-ELCAP) stated the eighty percent of lung cancers caught early with CT screening patients can expect to live for at least ten years.

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Non-Invasive Cardiac MRI for Stroke Diagnosis

Ischemic stroke due to a blocked artery claims many lives each year. The most common cause of a blockage is atherosclerosis, cholesterol build up the narrows the artery so that blood cells collect and cannot effectively pass.

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