California RT gives deposition; FDA panel eyes MRI contrast rules

Dear AuntMinnie Member,

The California radiologic technologist at the heart of a controversy over a massive CT radiation overdose delivered to a 2-year-old boy testified in a deposition last week that she's not sure how the child received 151 scans during a single imaging session.

Raven Knickerbocker gave the deposition as part of a civil lawsuit filed against her and the community hospital in Northern California where she worked at the time of the 2008 incident, according to an article in our Pediatric Imaging Digital Community by contributing writer Donna Domino.

Knickerbocker's deposition sheds additional light on the case, but many questions still remain. Learn more by clicking here, or visit the community at pediatric.auntminnie.com.

FDA panel eyes MRI contrast rules

In other news, features editor Wayne Forrest provides the latest update on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) regulation of gadolinium-based contrast agents in an article in our MRI Digital Community.

A pair of FDA panels met this week to discuss the agency's regulation of gadolinium contrast and its relationship to nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF). The FDA specifically is debating whether different formulations of gadolinium have different risk profiles, and whether product labeling should be changed.

Get the rest of the story by clicking here, or visit the community at mri.auntminnie.com.