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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. The ACR released a statement Wednesday supporting MedPAC's recommendations to set quality and safety standards for medical imaging. New articles will be published each Monday until our official anniversary at RSNA 2024.

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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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Deep learning helps distinguish benign vertebral fractures on CT

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A deep-learning algorithm used with CT imaging can differentiate between benign and malignant vertebral fractures, researchers have found. 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.

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HPI: Radiologist supply, imaging demand will contribute to future workforce shortage

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and increased demand for imaging will likely lead to a continued workforce shortage, Harvey L. attrition, residency positions, imaging use per person) on future workforce sufficiency" through 2055, the HPI said. In the imaging demand trend study, Christensen's group estimated future imaging utilization using data regarding U.S.

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Pediatric PET radiotracer doses drop by a third over two decades

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Over the past 20 years, children have benefited from a massive reduction in PET imaging radiotracer doses without any compromise in image quality, according to a study published October 19 in European Radiology. In PET/MRI, all of the radiation exposure derives from injected F-18 FDG.

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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. Uchida's team included data from participants whose structural MR imaging of the brain and CSF data were available over a 10-year span.

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PET links tau pathology to speech changes in unimpaired patients

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Tau PET imaging detects one such biomarker – neurofibrillary tau tangles – which begin to develop early on in the course of the disease, they added. 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.

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