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OCTOBER 20, 2023

Injected amounts of the tracer have dropped by 66% between 2000 and 2021, they found. 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.

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OCTOBER 26, 2023

Risk-based lung cancer screening using a model called the PLCOm2012-Update appears to mitigate racial and ethnic disparities and improve screening performance compared to a protocol based on the USPSTF 2021 criteria, researchers have found. In 2021, the U.S. comparing it to the USPSTF's 2021 recommendation. PLCOm2012-Update 15.9

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JANUARY 2, 2025

The researchers investigated the frequency of insurance denials for annual breast MRIs in women with this genetic variant and reviewed exam denial trends via a study that included data from 682 women with BRCA1/2 germline mutations who had screening breast MRIs ordered between 2020 to 2021 at a high-risk breast cancer clinic.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

AI based lesion-detection software used in daily practice can help identify clinically significant incidental lung nodules on chest x-rays, according to a study published November 13 in Scientific Reports. needed clinical management,” wrote lead author Shin Hye Hwang, MD, and colleagues.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

In a large group of patients who underwent imaging between 2021 and 2023, F-18 FES-PET/CT supported clinical decisions in three quarters of cases and resulted in a management change in one third, noted lead author Jeongryul Ryu, MD, of the Asan Medical Center in Seoul, Korea, and colleagues.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

Ultrasound has a variety of applications across medical specialties, so much so that its technological evolution and increasing use may be causing shifts in how the modality is being used in clinical practices. from 2009 to 2021. That’s what the Pelzl team wanted to find out. in 2009 to 34.2% and for other physicians (22.4%

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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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OCTOBER 25, 2024

Most Influential Radiology Researcher Erik Middlebrooks, MD, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL Erik Middlebrooks, MD. One of this year's nominations for Most Influential Radiology Researcher is Erik Middlebrooks, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL.

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JULY 1, 2024

The volume of interventional radiology (IR) procedures performed by advanced practice providers (APPs) such as physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) increased between 2010 and 2021, researchers have reported. between 2010 and 2021-- in part because radiology practices are employing more of these staff, the group explained.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

In brief, the report outlines major risks of use of LMMs in diagnosis and clinical care, most of which align with risks identified by radiologists , including biased data, and outlines strategies for member states to develop policies to mitigate the risks.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

In a clinical trial, F-18 FAPI-04 radiotracer performed better than F-18 FDG in identifying primary tumors, lymph node metastasis, and distant metastases in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). In the future, F-18 FAPI-04 PET/CT may play a greater role in the actual clinical management of PDAC,” the group wrote.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Pluvicto (lutetium-177 [Lu-177] prostate-specific membrane antigen [PSMA]-617) appears to perform as effectively in prostate cancer patients in “real-world” settings as it did in clinical trials prior to its approval, according to clinicians at the Johns Hopkins Theranostics Center in Baltimore, MD.

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AUGUST 26, 2024

Kevin Daynes, MD, filed suit with the New South Wales Supreme Court after he was fired in May 2022 from the I-MED Radiology Cairns clinic for "bullying conduct and victimization" complaints from a female radiographer and a sexual harassment complaint from a female technologist, the outlet reported. million Australian dollars ($2.9

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JANUARY 3, 2024

To that end, the group investigated the prognostic value of F-18 FDG-PET/CT in predicting the occurrence of brain metastases in 159 consecutive patients with proven melanoma who underwent imaging at their hospital in Salzburg between 2008 and 2021. A 49-year-old patient with primary clinical stage III melanoma underwent F-18 FDG-PET.

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

The original ScreenTrustCAD trial (2021–2022), published in The Lancet Digital Health , was the first prospective interventional study to demonstrate that AI could match or even surpass traditional two-radiologist systems. Previously, the waiting time for a clinical mammogram was five to six weeks. Now, with AI, it’s down to zero.”

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The result boosted the clinical value of the approach, the group noted. “We Thus, the researchers put the two approaches to the test on a difficult clinical task: differentiating F-18 FDG-PET/CT slices as benign or malignant, especially in lesions with poor F-18 FDG radiotracer uptake. “In The full study is available here.

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MARCH 28, 2025

To address the knowledge gap, the group analyzed data from men who underwent gallium-68 (Ga-68) PSMA-11 PET/CT scans before and after radiotherapy at their institution between November 2016 and October 2021 as part of a prospective clinical trial.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The researchers first identified 380,226 patients without a prior diagnosis of osteoporosis who underwent primary elective THA from 2010 to 2021. Among these patients, identifying those at high risk for osteoporosis could have a significant clinical impact, Agarwal noted. with more than 1 million of the surgeries performed each year.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

The technology figured prominently in five Minnies categories, including Hottest Clinical Procedure. Pickhardt believes using additional clinical data on CT imaging could save healthcare costs, especially when AI tools are used in parallel, suggesting it is a cost-effective or even cost-saving strategy for personalized or precision medicine.

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AUGUST 2, 2023

Noting that ileal-wall radiomic features were strongly predictive of CD—and that model performance improved when ensembled with clinical data—“a radiomic machine learning model predicted CD diagnosis with better performance than two of three expert radiologists,” wrote corresponding author and AJR Pediatric Imaging Section Editor Jonathan R.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

System-level efforts to ensure physicians take adequate vacation and have coverage for clinical responsibilities, including electronic health record [EHR] inbox, may reduce physician burnout,” Sinsky and co-authors wrote. The team included survey data collected between 2020 and 2021 from 3,024 physicians. Meanwhile, 35.5%

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Farmakis and colleagues described results and trends from responses gathered for the 2021 survey, focusing on pediatric radiology. The authors also wrote that the heavy use of nonphysician providers in pediatric radiology settings is to offset the demands of busy fluoroscopy schedules, increased clinical volumes, and staff shortages.

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MARCH 12, 2025

Three years of data (2021 to 2023) is now available from the annual ACR/RBMA survey to evaluate trends within the pediatric radiology workforce, the authors explained. This is up from opportunities for telework among 81% in 2021. Louis, MO, and colleagues. The overall average is 8% (59/731) among all respondents, the group noted.

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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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OCTOBER 11, 2024

“This validation is crucial to overcome the limitations of previous retrospective studies and to address concerns about the applicability of AI across varied patient demographics and clinical scenarios,” the researchers wrote. CXR Triage received clearance from the U.S.

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

Food and Drug Administration in 2021. The software identifies suspicious regions of interest (ROIs) on chest x-rays and assigns each ROI to one of eight clinical categories consistent with reporting guidelines from the RSNA. Chest-CAD is a deep-learning algorithm approved by the U.S.

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MARCH 4, 2024

She and colleagues assessed the performance of this type of protocol in women at high risk for breast cancer via a study that included 236 shortened breast MRI exams performed between 2018 and 2021. Two radiologists reviewed the cases.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

A team led by Dr. Mark Sherman from the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL, found that presence of the disease on percutaneous biopsy is tied to a similar degree of increased breast cancer risk compared with surgically diagnosed benign breast disease.

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JULY 19, 2024

mtaschetta-millane Fri, 07/19/2024 - 09:25 July 19, 2024 — GE HealthCare announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Intelligent Ultrasound Group PLC’s clinical artificial intelligence (AI) software business for total consideration of approximately $51 million. AHEC online, Sept 27, 2021.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

The application of deep learning and convoluted neural networks to AI-powered technology solutions for medical imaging enables them to offer far greater value and clinical utility than conventional workflow optimization tools. Payors, however, still deem them to be of low value. In the U.S.

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MAY 7, 2024

USARad provides imaging interpretation and database services to radiology practices, hospitals, medical clinics, diagnostic imaging centers, urgent care facilities, and multispecialty physician groups in the U.S. Nanox acquired USARad in November 2021. and five additional countries, according to Nanox.

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MAY 5, 2023

A rapid and accurate onsite approach for determining FFR-CT should address challenges encountered in the clinical adoption of prior FFR-CT implementations,” wrote corresponding author Ronny Ralf Buechel , MD, from University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland. In this AJR accepted manuscript , 59 patients (46 men, 13 women; mean age 66.5

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

I am excited that icobrain aria has received FDA approval, clearing the way for wider use in clinical practice,” said Stephen Salloway Butler Hospital and Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. icobrain aria was thoroughly evaluated in large reader studies.

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JULY 9, 2024

The Lobbes team presented findings from the RACER trial, a multicenter, randomized controlled clinical trial that compared CEM to conventional imaging (such as digital mammography or DBT) as a primary breast imaging modality in a real-world scenario. The final analysis included data collected between 2018 and 2021 from 526 women.

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MARCH 27, 2024

Researchers led by Nelly Tan, MD, from the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, AZ, also found that after implementing institutional policies to comply with the act’s information-blocking provisions, more patients accessed their reports before the ordering provider did.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

PET/MRI is a relatively new hybrid method being gradually integrated into clinical practice, with no experience using F-18 FDG-PET/MRI to diagnose FUO and IUO reported in the literature, they noted. They evaluated the sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values of the PET/MRI findings in relation to the final diagnosis.

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OCTOBER 14, 2023

When information-blocking provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act took effect in 2021, providers faced the need to make test results -- including radiology reports -- accessible to patients at the same time they were available to referring physicians. felt negative; and 9.3% felt positive.

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