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AuntMinnie 2019: Details emerge on MRI accident in Sweden

AuntMinnie

MRI safety articles have always been popular with our members, so it’s not surprising that our top article in 2019 reported on a safety incident in Sweden. New articles will be published each Monday until our official anniversary at RSNA 2024.

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Triple-negative breast cancers impact female populations differently

AuntMinnie

Final analysis included SEER data collected between 2010 and 2019 from 1,123,658 women who received a diagnosis of invasive breast cancer. per year from 2010 to 2019. per year from 2015 to 2019); Hispanic women aged 65 years or older (2.3% per year from 2010 to 2019); and Black women (1.4% from 2016 to 2019).

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HPI: MIPS performance measures biased for practice size

AuntMinnie

Our study found that] most radiologists performed successfully in the 2019 MIPS, but success varied across numerous factors," the authors noted. Chung and colleagues sought to investigate radiologist performance in the 2019 MIPS program and contributing predictors for their scores. Among the radiologists, 74.8%

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ACR shares ‘concern’ after CMS yanks coverage for certain exams, retroactive to 2019

Radiology Business

The college believes the move will sow confusion and is asking the agency to rescind its noncoverage determination.

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fMRI reveals a brain circuit for creativity

AuntMinnie

Kutsche's group conducted a review that assessed 36 fMRI brain imaging studies published between 2004 and 2019; these works included data from 857 healthy patients and revealed 415 brain coordinates activated by creativity tasks such as drawing, creative writing, and making music.

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How Massachusetts General increased outpatient MRI time slot capacity by 50%

Radiology Business

Amid increasing volumes, the Boston institution in 2019 started designing a new standalone facility utilizing new designs and processes to serve more patients.

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FAPI-PET superior to FDG-PET for detecting bone cancer

AuntMinnie

They analyzed imaging from 293 patients with pathologically confirmed primary malignancies who had undergone PET/CT scans with both agents within one week between November 2019 and December 2022.

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