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fMRI reveals a brain circuit for creativity

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A group of different brain regions that are activated by creative tasks are part of one common brain circuit, wrote a team led by Julian Kutsche, a researcher with the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at Brigham and Women's Hospital. The findings were published February 13 in JAMA Network Open.

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Private equity firm acquiring teleradiology outfit for $336M

Radiology Business

Founded in 2004, Medica employs 400-plus providers working across 100 hospitals and completing 1.5M radiology reports annually.

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Beware risk of adverse events associated with GBCAs

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To make the situation more complicated, not all possible adverse events from GBCAs are noted in drug packaging, wrote a team led by Lu Wang , PhD, of Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital in Yantai, China. They investigated these indicators prompted by the following four GBCAs between 2004 and 2022, using the U.S.

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Meet the Minnies 2024 finalists

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Louis School of Medicine and completed his residency and a neuroradiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Dempsey began working in radiography at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, Pennsylvania. She continued working at the hospital for 12 years while growing in her role as an educator. Dmitry Beyder.

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American Roentgen Ray Society Awards 2024 ARRS Gold Medal to Former President, Present Roentgen Fund Chair, Philip Costello

Imaging Technology

From 2004 to 2021, Dr. Costello was chief of the Radiology and Integrated Center for Comprehensive Excellence (ICCE) at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He is board-certified in radiology, practicing for many years at the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston.

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Imaging has elevated role in caring for bomb blast victims

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Zahra Rahmatullah, a final-year medical student from Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, presented her team’s findings on imaging trends for abdominal and pelvic injuries for these patients, with CT and ultrasound being the modalities most used. days in the hospital, while those who did not stayed for 7.96

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Machine learning used with CT imaging foretells lung abnormalities

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A team led by Akinori Hata, MD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston developed and tested 12 machine-learning algorithms and, for the top performer, found an area under the receiver operating curve (AUC) for predicting ILAs of 0.87.

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