What does CA stand for?

Researchers at Rice invented an ultrasensitive class of MRI contrast agents in 2005 that increase the sensitivity of MRI scans and make it easier for doctors to deliver a diagnosis.

While GE says it is investigating concerns about Omniscan, the company maintains there is no proof that the drug, known as a contrast agent, causes disease.

During a breast MRI, which lasts about a half hour, the technician injects a contrast agent into a vein in the patient's arm.

Often, a contrast agent is injected into the bloodstream to highlight the vessel.

Milk found effective, low-cost contrast agent Patients find it more tolerable than VoLumen Could whole milk work just as well as the more expensive, barium-based contrast agents for imaging of the gastrointestinal tract?

Each of these patients had been administered a gadolinium-based MR contrast agent for MR imaging within a few weeks of the onset of the disease.

This study, published by the "Journal of the American College of Cardiology" in March, looked at more than 18,000 patients and concluded that Definity doesn't raise the risk of death compared with ultrasound performed without a contrast agent.

Patients with reduced renal function are at risk of developing contrast-induced nephrotoxicity (CIN) following a contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) examination with an iodinated contrast agent (1) and at risk of developing nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) after a contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examination with an extracellular gadolinium-based contrast agent.