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Breast MRI surveillance reduces disease recurrence

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Postoperative MRI surveillance appears to lower the odds of advanced second breast cancer in women with a personal history of the disease, researchers have reported. "In Images in a 40-year-old woman who underwent breast-conserving surgery for left breast cancer and a surveillance breast MRI examination 25 months after surgery. (A)

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MRI reveals functional brain alterations associated with depression

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Researchers have found that MRI reveals functional brain alterations that are associated with major depression, according to a study published February 19 in JAMA Network Open. The team took this data from a UK Biobank cohort enrolled between January 2014 and December 2018; all study participants underwent brain MR imaging.

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Philips issues safety notice for discontinued MRI coils

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Philips has issued a field safety notice for customers using MRI systems that still employ discontinued first-generation SENSE XL Torso coil units (1.5T These coils may undergo localized heating during a scan and there's a possibility of patient injury from excessive heat, according to the vendor.

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AuntMinnie 2023: ISMRM: MRI detects brain changes in past cannabis users

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Around 183 million people in the world used cannabis in 2014, and 22 million met the criteria for cannabis use disorder in 2016. All participants were scanned on a Skyra 3-tesla MRI unit from Siemens Healthineers. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health , the proportion of the U.S.

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MRI model predicts pathologic features of liver cancer

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A new scoring model for MRI exams shows potential for improving the assessment of early recurrence in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), according to a study published February 11 in Radiology. However, scoring models based on gadoxetic acid-enhanced MRI features for predicting pathologic indicators in HCC are scarce, they wrote.

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Magnet quench hazard prompts recall of legacy Philips MRI scanner

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Philips is voluntarily recalling its Panorama 1-tesla HFO MRI scanner due to risk of a potential magnet quench hazard. HFO was discontinued in 2014. The Panorama scanner was launched in 2005 and there are currently 340 units still in operation globally, including 150 in the U.S. Panorama 1.0T The company said that all U.S.

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Meet the Minnies 2024 finalists

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His research interests include using structural and functional MRI -- particularly ultrahigh-field, 7-tesla MRI -- to map brain microstructure and develop neurosurgical treatment of brain tumors, epilepsy, and neurodegenerative and movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and dystonia.