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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. and/or iwFR ≤0.89.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Clinical Scenario: A 44-year-old man presents with palpitations that started 45 minutes ago. In clinical practice, a troponin is used to determine whether a patient has had myocardial damage resulting due to coronary atherosclerosis or an acute coronary occlusion (ACO). He has no medical problems and denies any prior similar symptoms.

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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. He earned his medical degree from Washington University in St.

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Imaging Technology

APRIL 18, 2023

The broader and clinically dependable data set will support the development of solutions that improve patient care and clinical outcomes, according to the company statement. The dataset gives comprehensive insights on patient treatments, co-morbidities, readmissions, and clinical outcomes.

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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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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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Imaging Technology

MAY 7, 2024

From 2004 to 2021, Dr. Costello was chief of the Radiology and Integrated Center for Comprehensive Excellence (ICCE) at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. Currently, he is a faculty member and professor of radiology with clinical endeavors focused on thoracic imaging.

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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. Lopez and co-authors studied the relationship between NIH research funding awarded to radiology departments and Lown Institute Hospitals Index rankings for inclusivity and community benefit.

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JULY 1, 2024

Balkan Med J 2021. PMID: 34462252 Clinical Question: Does AVAPS NIPPV in patients with hypercapnic respiratory failure improve PaCO2 and pH values better than traditional BiPAP NIPPV? AVAPS: 0.07 P = 0.015 PaCO2 Excretion in 1 st Hour BPAP S/T: 4.75 AVAPS: 10.20 AVAPS: 0.07 P = 0.015 PaCO2 Excretion in 1 st Hour BPAP S/T: 4.75

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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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REBEL EM

AUGUST 28, 2023

Clinical Scenario: A 34-year-old woman presents to the ED with back pain. IM ketorolac will provide better pain relief and the patient will be happier with her care since she got an ‘injection’ and, after all, she did come all the way to the hospital. Acad Emerg Med 2021; 28(11): 1228-35. PMID: 34133820 Arora S et al.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

Neiman Health Policy Institute in Reston, VA, found that office ultrasound services have been mostly performed by radiologists while hospital outpatient and inpatient services have been performed more by cardiologists and cardiac surgeons. from 2009 to 2021. Researchers led by Casey Pelzl from the Harvey L. in 2009 to 34.2%

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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. 2021 Sep 15;81(18):4808-4821. Epub 2021 Jul 28. [4] doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-21-1500.

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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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European Radiology

JANUARY 24, 2024

Her PhD work is primarily centered on integrating artificial intelligence, particularly radiomics, into clinical practice. Jake Cowen is a radiology registrar at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, UK. Sonja Jankovic is a board-certified radiologist working at the Department of Radiology, University Clinical Center Nis.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

tesla MRI AI body composition analysis Cardiac PET Cryo/thermoablation CT colonography Genicular artery embolization Hyperpolarized xenon-129 MRI PET/MRI Photon-counting CT Radiomics Theranostics Whole-body MRI screening Image of the Year 3D PET/MR image.

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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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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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AUGUST 7, 2024

Although use of CT colonography (CTC) for colorectal cancer screening doubled between 2019 and 2021, overall utilization may still be low, according to research published in the September edition of Clinical Imaging. Upcoming Medicare reimbursement may change that. However, use increased to 3.5% 400% of federal poverty level).

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

A group led by Srinath Sridharan, PhD, of Changi General Hospital in Singapore, also found that the software (CXR Triage, Lunit ) achieved a specificity of 99% in urgent cases and thus could aid in critical decisions. CXR Triage received clearance from the U.S.

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Imaging Technology

APRIL 4, 2024

Neiman Health Policy Institute (HPI) study shows that radiologists in radiology-only practices score significantly lower in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) in 2021. In 2021, there were only 9 available MIPS measures for diagnostic radiology, compared to 65 in family medicine.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

A team led by Xiaoxia Wang of Chongqing University Cancer Hospital in China found that the technique outperformed apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) measurements and a clinical-pathologic model when it came to predicting treatment response, with an area under the receiver operating curve (AUC) of 0.88 compared to 0.73

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REBEL EM

MAY 25, 2023

Clinical Take Home Point: In patients with TBI and hypovolemic shock, target a SBP or MAP ≥90mmHg, but know this is based on limited evidence. mental status, urine output, capillary refill) is more important than an actual goal PERMISSIVE HYPOTENSTION IN PTS WITH TBI Brotfain E et al. NEJM 1994. [2] NEJM 1994. [2] Richards JE et al.

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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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AUGUST 30, 2023

milla1cf Wed, 08/30/2023 - 14:45 August 30, 2023 — A published study by researchers at the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center shows that multiple beams and intervals in delivery during FLASH proton therapy treatment reduced skin-saving effects in preclinical models.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

In a retrospective study, a team at the University Hospital Salzburg in Austria studied baseline F-18 FDG-PET/CT imaging parameters in patients with melanoma and found they were associated with the development of metastatic brain tumors. A 49-year-old patient with primary clinical stage III melanoma underwent F-18 FDG-PET.

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JUNE 6, 2024

Researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles are among those monitoring the clinical and investigational role of AI in advanced cardiac CT imaging. These scans are often stored in hospital radiology systems for years without further use, but we could extract more information from these scans to guide preventative treatments."

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JULY 9, 2024

Many women who are recalled from breast cancer screening receive post-screening work-up in the hospital with full-field digital mammography. Women in the trial were randomly assigned to either a CEM branch or a control branch for conventional imaging as a primary workup tool in two general and two academic hospitals.

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JUNE 27, 2024

Under the auspices of Alara Imaging , a measure steward entity established by the university, CMS plans to adopt the measure into its hospital and physician pay-for-performance programs beginning in 2025. Administered CT radiation doses are highly variable across patients, radiologists, and hospitals throughout the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A team led by Shannon Farmakis, MD, from Mercy Children’s Hospital in St. Farmakis and colleagues described results and trends from responses gathered for the 2021 survey, focusing on pediatric radiology. All ACR members were invited to participate, while previous surveys only allowed practice leaders and their proxies to participate.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Researchers led by Wenfei Xue from Hebei Province General Hospital in Shijiazhuang, China, found through such reconstruction that the tumor blood vessel diameter of ground-glass opacity (GGO) lesions are tied to the growth of malignant pulmonary nodules. “The This included 62 patients as stable and 54 patients in the nodule growth group.

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Imaging Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Conducted from April 1, 2021, to June 9, 2022, this study meticulously analyzed 55,581 breast cancer screening cases in real-world clinical settings. Our collaboration with Capio S:t Göran Hospital is pivotal in addressing the radiologist shortage and revolutionizing mammography analysis.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

In a study that included 104 patients, PET/MRI provided high sensitivity and specificity for determining underlying causes, especially in patients with elevated C-reactive protein, a blood biomarker of inflammation, according to lead author Tomas Rohan, MD, of University Hospital Brno in Brno, Czechia. “To

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APRIL 12, 2024

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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Everything Rad

JUNE 28, 2023

Reading Time: 8 minutes read By Dr. Niall Sheehy, MB, MRCP, FFR RCSI, St James’s Hospital -Trinity College Dublin. In May 2021, St James’s Hospital in Dublin was one of 54 public hospitals affected when the Health Service Executive (HSE) was the victim of a Cyber Attack by Conti, a sophisticated, financially-motivated criminal gang.

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Imaging Technology

APRIL 6, 2023

In addition, Carestream’s Net Promoter Scores (NPS) increased since 2021. This important metric is correlated to customer repurchase intentions and is known to have a causative effect on revenue and market share gains.

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MAY 6, 2024

It added that 43% of the world’s population suffer from neurological disorders [ii] , yet only a fraction can be diagnosed by MRI, making the need to expand the neurological clinical applications of MRI critical. said Kelly Londy, CEO, MR GE HealthCare. Not cleared or approved by any global regulator for commercial availability. [ii]

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