Radiology Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

A summary of the ST1 clinical radiology interview format from the recent 2016/17 recruitment round. This article, however, is written by an ST1 trainee and aims to cover the content of interview stations from the most recent 2016/2017 intake only, with examples of questions asked last year. What will you miss about ward based medicine?

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Imaging Technology

MAY 25, 2023

Currently, when treating metastatic breast cancer patients, oncologists base clinical decisions on diagnostic tools including biopsy results which only represent the sampled area of the tumor. August 2021 3 Mariotto et al, 2017 4 [link] 5 Kurland, et al. In the U.S., FES PET, like FDG PET, is now included in the NCCN Guidelines.

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REBEL EM

AUGUST 28, 2023

Clinical Scenario: A 34-year-old woman presents to the ED with back pain. The ceiling pain relief dose for ketorolac is 15 mg IV ( Motov 2017 ). Ann Emerg Med 2017; 70(2): 177-84. Rezaie, MD (X/Twitter: @srrezaie ) The post Clinical Conundrum: Does IM Ketorolac Provide Superior Pain Relief to PO Ibuprofen?

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AuntMinnie

MAY 27, 2024

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has updated 2017 clinical guidelines for treating patients with symptomatic bone metastases with external beam radiation therapy (RT).

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Imaging Technology

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

milla1cf Mon, 11/20/2023 - 12:49 November 20, 2023 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) issued a clinical guideline on partial breast irradiation for patients with early-stage invasive breast cancer or ductal carcinoma in situ ( DCIS ).

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 6, 2024

A deep-learning model performs comparably to an abdominal radiologist when it comes to finding clinically significant prostate cancer on MRI, researchers have reported. This progress promises to improve patient outcomes through earlier and more accurate diagnosis of [clinically significant prostate cancer]." External 0.86 External 0.86

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 19, 2024

Since ASTRO published its last guideline for oropharyngeal cancer in 2017, HPV-positive OPSCC has been recognized as a clinically separate disease from non-HPV OPSCC, and the new guidelines focus specifically on treatment for patients with HPV-positive disease.

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Imaging Technology

JULY 28, 2023

This AJR accepted manuscript included 1,325 women (mean age, 53 years) with dense breasts who underwent both screening mammography and supplementary breast US within a 1-month interval from January 2017 to December 2017; prior mammogram and US were available to compare in 91.2% and 91.8%, respectively. s analysis.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 28, 2023

An understanding of the limitations of the NCDB, including limited representation of Hispanic and American Indian or Alaska Native individuals, can help inform clinical decision-making, especially when using studies that are based on the NCDB,” the Satpathy team wrote. The team included data from 5,175,007 individuals. Of these, 0.5%

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 27, 2024

is a clinical 7-tesla system with eight-channel, parallel transmit architecture. succeeds Siemens’ Terra clinical 7-tesla scanner, which was introduced in 2017. Siemens Healthineers has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its Magnetom Terra.X 7-tesla MRI scanner. First showcased at RSNA 2022 , Terra.X

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AuntMinnie

JULY 18, 2024

The findings help to identify clinical settings where PET/MRI may provide particular clinical benefit for oncologic evaluation,” the group wrote. Since the last systematic review comparing the methods in 2017, evidence on the use of FDG-PET/MRI using hybrid systems has grown substantially, the authors noted.

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Imaging Technology

MARCH 27, 2024

a second-generation clinical 7-tesla magnetic resonance imaging scanner that dramatically advances the capabilities of 7T MR scanning with new hardware and XA60A software. is the successor to the MAGNETOM Terra , which debuted in 2017 as the world’s first 7T clinical MR scanner, enabling extremely high-resolution imaging.

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Imaging Technology

MAY 11, 2023

From January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2016, patients temporarily discontinued all AT for 5 days before CNB; from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2019, the cohort maintained AT during CNB. The authors also reported that no patient developed clinically significant hematoma after biopsy. Reichman et al.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

are PET MPI because of limited access to the currently available PET tracers,” noted Jamshid Maddahi, MD, of the University of California, Los Angeles, who led clinical trials for the imaging agent, in a news release. CAD is the most common form of heart disease and remains the leading cause of death for men and women in the U.S.,

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 15, 2024

Detecting breast arterial calcifications on routine mammograms could identify women at a higher risk of future cardiovascular disease (CVD), a study published March 13 in Clinical Imaging found. The researchers collected data from 215 women aged 18 or older who underwent mammography and CCTA within a two-year period between 2007 and 2017.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

However, the pulmonary nodules growth with GGO can be predicted by considering the clinical responses and morphological features in CT images, such as parents’ age and the diameter of tumor blood vessels.” For the study, the team included 116 cases with persistent malignant pulmonary nodules collected between 2017 and 2021.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 25, 2024

PET/CT scans used to visualize findings in men with recurrent prostate cancer may also help assess their risk for cardiovascular disease, according to a study published January 22 in Clinical Genitourinary Cancer. However, whether these findings have predictive value in men with prostate cancer is unknown, they added.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 30, 2024

QIA [include] features like reticulation and ground-glass opacities as well as subtle density changes with important clinical implications," Choi said in a statement released by the RSNA. "In The study underscores the need for further research, wrote Brent Little, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL, in an accompanying commentary.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 14, 2024

But how these techniques affect clinical management hasn't been clear. Changes included making a different arrangement for those patients with an intended plan to be enrolled in a clinical trial, to change chemotherapeutic agents, to undergo surgical intervention, and to undergo another course of radiation treatment.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Some factors tied to first breast cancers can have a negative impact on screening mammography's ability to find future cancers, according to research published October 5 in Clinical Imaging. The study included data collected between 2006 and 2017 from 274 second breast cancer cases diagnosed within 10 years of first breast cancer cases.

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Imaging Technology

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The digital pathology solution was cleared for the purpose of primary diagnosis, reported the company, adding that it is cleared (K230839) for clinical use with the Hamamatsu NanoZoomer S360MD Slide scanner in the United States. Up to 70% of clinical decisions depend on pathology 1. NHS England (2017). Reference: 1.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Of the 246,984 radiology reports dictated by 53 residents at their institution between September 2017 and November 2022, 22% were dictated by first-year residents, 24% were dictated by second-year residents, 19.1% by third-year residents, 15.9% by fourth-year residents, and 19% by fifth-year residents.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 23, 2024

Catharines, Ontario, reported that use of the model translated to an adherence rate to annual recall and early surveillance scans and clinical investigations of more than 85%. Tammemägi, PhD, of Brock University in St. The findings were published April 19 in Nature Medicine. has been slow. Sensitivity for lung cancer detection was 95.3%

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AuntMinnie

JULY 24, 2024

Interventional radiologists received an aggregate of over $60 million in payments from drug and medical device companies between 2017 and 2021, but most of this money is going to just a few of these physicians, according to research published July 24 in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 16, 2024

A CT-based deep learning model can identify individuals with clinical stage IA non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) at high risk of further disease, researchers have found. It also compared the model's sensitivity and specificity with the Japan Clinical Oncology Group (JCOG) eligibility criteria for sublobar resection. Sensitivity 87.4%

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Imaging Technology

JUNE 29, 2023

Pickhardt and colleagues’ AJR accepted manuscript included a screening sample of 8,901 patients (4,235 men, 4,666 women; mean age, 56 years) who underwent CT colonoscopy (n = 7736) or renal-donor CT (n = 1165) from April 2004 to January 2017. Pickhardt et al.’s

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 14, 2024

Mechanisms driving low V/M in smokers and the potential use of V/M as a surrogate marker of vascular health and predictor of downstream clinical outcomes require further study. The complete research can be found here.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 25, 2024

Previous reports have documented healthcare access disparities and lack of inclusion in clinical research regarding historically underserved populations. The researchers included funding data collected between 2017 and 2021 from 75 U.S.-based based radiology departments.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 31, 2024

A group at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, found that right ventricular myocardial strain ratio (RVMSR) measurements on N-13 ammonia PET images predicted cardiovascular events and suggested the approach can be used to identify patients who would benefit from clinical interventions.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

cardiac CT or MRI, nuclear cardiology, or echocardiology) for myocardial ischemia and the more invasive coronary CT angiography (CTA) for patients exhibiting symptoms of the disease and for whom obstructive CAD can't be excluded by clinical assessment alone. years of follow-up compared with CT imaging (2.1%

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2024

RadNet executives will spend the next 18 months learning what does and doesn't work for operating small in-store retail breast cancer screening clinics in three areas of the U.S. In early December 2023, the first of RadNet's three pilot MammogramNow clinics opened in a Walmart Supercenter in Milford, DE. Photo courtesy of RadNet.

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Imaging Technology

JUNE 16, 2023

As part of the collaboration, IBA will enable the FLASH configuration in the clinical proton therapy system of PARTICLE to facilitate preclinical research on FLASH therapy. In the future, this could lead to new clinical functionality for patients. In the future, this could lead to new clinical functionality for patients.

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JULY 27, 2023

The company is a pre-clinical stage biotech company focused on advancing the field of radiation oncology through accelerator-based Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT), based in Santa Monica, CA. Effective immediately, Hill succeeds Bruce Bauer, who served as CEO since the company was founded in 2017.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 3, 2024

The procedure is performed by interventional radiologists and its effect is highly time-dependent, whereby faster treatment from stroke onset improves reperfusion and clinical outcomes, the authors explained. The trial was conducted between March 2017 and August 2019 with patients recruited from seven countries.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The team included patient records from 206 HCC patients who underwent a liver transplant from 2011 to 2017. The authors also called for more research to better understand factors leading to HCC under-detection along with the extent of residual disease that leads to clinically significant outcomes.

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Imaging Technology

MAY 24, 2024

QIA includes features like reticulation and ground-glass opacities as well as subtle density changes with important clinical implications,” said Bina Choi, M.D. The study included individuals with a 10-pack-year or greater smoking history recruited from multiple centers between November 2007 and July 2017.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This technology has the potential to reduce burnout and allow physicians to spend more time with patients, which may ultimately lead to better outcomes," added Dreyer, who is an Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School , Dreyer head of the MGH & BWH Center for Clinical Data Science (CCDS).

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