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Ultrasound nonmass breast lesion features may signal malignancy

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A team led by Su Min Ha, MD, PhD, from Seoul National University Hospital in South Korea found that the following nonmass lesion features on ultrasound can be considered suspicious: calcifications, posterior shadowing, segmental distribution, and mixed echogenicity.

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ISMRM: Technologist inexperience leads to MRI accidents

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A group led by Miho Uemura, PhD, of Sapporo Medical University Hospital in Japan found that half of reports describing MRI accidents were submitted by technologists with less than a year of MR imaging experience. "In

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Responding to a Ransomware Attack in Radiology

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Reading Time: 8 minutes read By Dr. Niall Sheehy, MB, MRCP, FFR RCSI, St James’s Hospital -Trinity College Dublin. In May 2021, St James’s Hospital in Dublin was one of 54 public hospitals affected when the Health Service Executive (HSE) was the victim of a Cyber Attack by Conti, a sophisticated, financially-motivated criminal gang.

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Evidence grows for use of amyloid PET in China

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In patients treated at a memory clinic at Huashan Hospital in Shanghai, amyloid PET scans detected brain pathology associated with the disease and led to changes in treatment plans in 36.5% of patients, noted lead author Ke-Liang Chen, MD, a neurologist at Fudan University.

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PET/CT predicts adverse cardiac events in men with prostate cancer

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To elucidate this, the researchers identified 354 men with prostate cancer who underwent PET/CT at their institution from 2012 to 2017. Among the patients, there were 98 MACE events in 74 patients (21%).

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Tributes pour in for CT pioneer Willi Kalender

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Achenbach, who has been chair of cardiology at the University of Erlangen since 2012, said he has always been deeply impressed by how much Kalender cared about the clinical applications of his contributions to CT. Willi Kalender, PhD. Courtesy of National Academy of Engineering.

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