Breast MRI usage climbs 23% in 2008

Breast MRI is showing double-digit growth in 2008 and is one of the fastest growing procedures in the MR departments, according to a newly released imaging market guide from Arlington Medical Resources. AMR representatives said its market guide is an audit of conventional x-ray, CT scanning, MRI, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, and cardiac cath lab procedure volumes, with iodinated contrast agent and radiopharmaceutical usage information in hospital and non-hospital settings.