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Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Announces 2024 Fellows

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The SNMMI Fellowship was established in 2016 to recognize distinguished service to the society as well as exceptional achievement in the field of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. It is among the most prestigious formal recognitions available to long-time SNMMI members. SNMMI Fellowship is recognized with the designation FSNMMI.

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Abbreviated MRI Supports Supplemental Dense Breast Screening

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Edmonds , MD, from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. s AJR accepted manuscript included patients with dense breasts, at otherwise average breast-cancer risk, who underwent AB-MR for supplemental screening between December 20, 2016 and May 10, 2023.

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Bleeding After Image-Guided Breast Biopsies: Discontinuing vs. Maintaining Antithrombotic Therapy

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“The findings support safety of continuing AT during breast core-needle biopsy (CNB),” wrote lead researcher Melissa Reichman, MD, of Weill Cornell Medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, adding that patients who maintain AT should be counseled regarding risk of bruise. Reichman et al. Finally, bleeding events were compared among groups.

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CAC measurements on nongated chest CT improve surgery risk assessment

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Estimating the prevalence and severity of coronary artery calcium (CAC) using data gleaned from nongated chest CT imaging improves risk assessment of postsurgical major clinical events before a patient undergoes noncardiac surgery, according to research published in the October 10 issue of Circulation. compared with 2.9%. 1 to 2 3.7%

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Pediatric PET radiotracer doses drop by a third over two decades

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To quantify these developments, the group analyzed administered doses in 243 children and adolescents who underwent 466 clinical F-18 FDG-PET/CT or PET/MRI scans of the body at their hospital between January 2000 and May 2021. The full study is available here.

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The Society of Interventional Radiology 2024 Gold Medals and Charles T. Dotter Lecture Delivered at Annual Meeting

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The UW Clinical Tumor Ablation Program draws patients from all over the world to Madison. a University of Wisconsin spin-off company that was sold to Ethicon (Johnson & Johnson) in 2016, and Elucent Medical, Inc., He is active in research and has authored several publications in key interventional radiology clinical trials.

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MRI radiomics shows potential in determining breast cancer HER2 status

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Researchers led by Yuqin Peng from Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, Guangdong found that their nomogram based on MRI radiomics can distinguish HER2-zero from HER2-low or HER2-positives cancers, as well as HER2-low from HER2-positive cancers. “MRI The women underwent breast MRI between 2016 and 2022.

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