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Inflation-adjusted Medicare pay in radiology has decreased by $2.8B since 2005

Radiology Business

This occurred during a period when radiologists took on an increasing workload, with relative value units leaping 13.1% during the 16-year study period.

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AuntMinnie 2005: Cardiology leader slams ACR's imaging initiatives

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In 2005, our top article reported on the fierce turf war in the U.S. Editor's note: As part of the celebration of AuntMinnie.com's upcoming 25th anniversary, we're presenting 25 for 25 -- a series featuring our most popular content for each of the last 25 years.

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Private-equity radiology group owner Grovecourt Capital acquires MRI solutions provider IMRIS Imaging

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Founded in 2005, the vendor designs, manufactures and services its proprietary intraoperative MRI suite used on over 70,000 patients.

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Higher white-matter volume linked to mild cognitive impairment

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BIOCARD began at the National Institutes of Health in January 1995 and continued there until December 2005; it was continued at Johns Hopkins between January 2015 to October 2023. All participants in the BIOCARD trial were cognitively healthy at baseline.

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Deep learning helps distinguish benign vertebral fractures on CT

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The group conducted a study that investigated the reliability of CT-based deep learning and included 532 patients with benign or malignant vertebral fractures imaged between June 2005 and December 2022. The team developed three models, all of which used 3D U-Net encoder-classifier architecture.

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PET links tau pathology to speech changes in unimpaired patients

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Audio recordings of all FHS neuropsychological assessments began in 2005, while a subset of patients in the study underwent structural MRI, amyloid PET, and tau PET imaging. In this study, the group culled data from 237 cognitively unimpaired adults enrolled in the Framingham Heart Study (age range, 32-75).

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Pediatric PET radiotracer doses drop by a third over two decades

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The median injected F-18 FDG activity dropped from 296 MBq in 2000-2005 to 100 MBq in 2016-2021, equaling approximately one-third of the initial amount, the group found. They measured exposure in megabecquerels (MBq), with standard recommended doses ranging between 2 and 5 MBq per kilogram.

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