However, studies on information about physicians' utilisation of imaging appropriateness guidelines were identified, most of them stating that the clinicians' use of guidelines is poor and their awareness about such tools is limited.
For example, diagnostic information may be communicated from secondary care where there may be variation in the utilisation of imaging techniques to confirm stroke subtypes [ 15].
Innovative solutions that promote fair access to high-quality data sets with regard to image-based phenotypes and imaging biomarkers will provide support to users for its utilisation.
We have also shown that there is a wide variation in brain-imaging scan utilisation among English hospitals.
Depending on the clinical question, myocardial metabolism needs to be shifted towards free fatty acid or glucose utilisation in cardiac PET imaging with 18F-FDG; thus, reliable patient preparation is of utmost importance [90].
Our study reveals gross deviations of GP management of LBP from current guidelines, resulting in likely over-diagnosis with imaging techniques, over-treatment with NSAIDs, and over-utilisation of an obsolete mode of NSAID application, i.e. intramuscular injection.
Patient resource utilisation data for chemotherapy, in-patient hospitalisations, outpatient consultations, laboratory tests (including EGFR testing) and imaging techniques were measured and costed for use in the model.
Kairento AL, Brownell GL, Elmaleh DR, Swartz MR. Comparative measurement of regional blood flow, oxygen and glucose utilisation in soft tissue tumour of rabbit with positron imaging.
