AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

We hope you enjoy our article as well as the opportunity to hear directly from the recipients. He earned his medical degree at the University of Alabama School of Medicine and completed a residency in diagnostic radiology at the University of Florida. Avoiding certain sequences due to difficulties at 7T is not always practical.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 15, 2024

The document was published jointly March 11 in the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology , Clinical Infectious Diseases , the Heart Rhythm Journal , and JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging. In the article, experts provide evidence-based consensus on specific clinical scenarios where PET/CT and SPECT/CT add value for patient care.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 21, 2024

and European experts have proposed a joint practice guideline for use in nuclear medicine on diagnostics and therapy (theranostics) of meningiomas, as published June 20 in the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. The full article is available here. the group wrote.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 19, 2024

Color Health will launch a copilot application based on OpenAI’s latest GPT-4o technology designed to help identify missing cancer diagnostics and create tailored treatment plans, according to a story on OpenAI’s website.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 29, 2024

A significant percentage of imaging exams ordered in emergency departments (EDs) may be inappropriate, according to new research published April 26 in Emergency Radiology. They used the American College of Radiology (ACR) Appropriateness Criteria to classify imaging orders as either appropriate or inappropriate. of ultrasounds, 29.1%

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Diagnostic Imaging

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Catch up on the most well-read ultrasound articles from 2023.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 29, 2024

newspaper coverage, news articles over the past 25 years have discussed AI’s advantages more than potential risks. However, radiologists were “infrequently” interviewed or quoted in these articles. The findings were published July 20 in Clinical Imaging. “It Of the total articles included, 154 had radiology as the primary focus.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 12, 2024

More than 60% of diagnostic radiology and radiation therapy staff experience workplace violence, according to a study published January 9 in Radiography. To address this knowledge gap, the authors reviewed medical literature to identify articles on the issue over the last 10 years. The full article is available here.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 18, 2024

A team of researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital has developed an age-specific dose catalog for estimating radiation exposure to children from diagnostic and interventional radiology fluoroscopy procedures. They analyzed metrics to estimate age-specific effective dose per IR procedure type and diagnostic fluoroscopy exam.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 10, 2024

Conebeam breast CT (CBBCT) has superior diagnostic performance than that of mammography in small studies, according to research published January 8 in the European Journal of Radiology. The modality provides isotropic 3D images, which the researchers highlighted eliminates the need for breast compression.

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Diagnostic Imaging

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Catch up on the most well-read computed tomography (CT) articles from 2023.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2024

On July 9, 2024, AuntMinnieEurope.com posted an article about the extensive damage caused to Ukraine's largest pediatric hospital. These devices will significantly enhance our diagnostic capabilities, especially in the intensive care, emergency, and pediatric departments."

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 17, 2024

Strategies to increase the use of cardiac PET myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) in the U.S. Despite its superb diagnostic performance, data from the Medicare payment database indicates that in 2021, 194,554 PET MPI studies were performed for Medicare patients, while 1,470,751 SPECT MPI studies were performed, a ratio of 7.5

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2024

He earned his medical degree at the University of Alabama School of Medicine and completed a residency in diagnostic radiology at the University of Florida. 7-tesla MRI gets us closer in imaging to our pathology colleagues, and offers many new possibilities for better treatment," he said. Perry Pickhardt, MD. He served in the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 6, 2024

The article was published March 5 in EJNMMI Physics. F-18 FDG-PET scans may be static or dynamic, with static imaging capturing the distribution of radiotracer 60 minutes after it is injected in patients based on standard uptake values (SUVs), the authors explained. Image courtesy of EJNMMI Physics.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a comparative imaging trial, fibroblast activation protein inhibitor (FAPI)-PET/CT outperformed FDG-PET/CT in detecting primary tumors in patients with head and neck cancer, according to a study published January 25 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. PET/CT and MR images of a 72-year-old woman. (A)

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 8, 2024

A study conducted in a primary care clinic in Spain highlights the need for improvement of AI algorithms for interpreting chest x-rays, despite being commercially approved by European regulators, according to an article published March 3 in Scientific Reports. Image courtesy of Scientific Reports. The full article is available here.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The finding comes despite guidelines recommending LSG as the diagnostic test of choice and underlines the need for a better diagnostic test, wrote lead author Tina Moon, MD, of Tufts Medical Center in Boston and colleagues. and 4.4%), while these imaging studies were less frequently used in the upper extremity, around 1%.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 12, 2024

Ultimately, the group described a method to correct the phenomenon to produce better images. The article was published March 7 in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. The article was published March 7 in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. Access to the full article is available here.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 22, 2024

Out-of-network billing by radiologists – often referred to as “surprise billing” – dropped significantly beginning in 2007 and imaging claims are now almost completely in network, according to a recent study. In an analysis of billing trends, the rate of out-of-network (OON) imaging claims declined from 12.6% in 2007 to 1.1%

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AuntMinnie

MAY 23, 2024

PSMA-PET/CT has the potential to be an effective alternative imaging approach for diagnosing patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC), a type of kidney cancer, according to a study published May 23 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Using a comprehensive search strategy, the authors initially identified 145 articles.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Unlike in Alzheimer’s disease, for instance, where PET tracers have been developed to visualize beta-amyloid and tau protein accumulations, there is no reliable imaging biomarker available for a-syn. b) Transversal images at the level of the basal ganglia in a control participant, and patients with DLB, MSA-parkinsonian type. (b)

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The team assessed the potential diagnostic utility of bone scans in calciphylaxis based on a review of the literature. Given the morbidity and increasing incidence of calciphylaxis and the need for a diagnostic algorithm, the place of bone scan in disease management needs to be better defined,” the authors concluded.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 8, 2024

PET/MRI imaging shows promise in diagnosing fevers or inflammation of unknown origin and may have advantages over PET/CT, according to a study published January 3 in the European Journal of Radiology. T2 IDEAL WATER image (B) shows increased T2 signal; LAVA WATER (C) image shows mild enhancement in these muscles.

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Diagnostic Imaging

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Catch up on the most well-read mammography articles from 2023.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 31, 2024

Its implementation in radiology holds potential for enhancing diagnostic precision, expediting report generation, and optimizing patient care,” the group wrote. As BERT technology advances, we foresee further innovative applications. The full study can be found here.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 18, 2024

FDG-PET/MRI is comparable or superior in diagnostic performance to FDG-PET/CT across a range of cancers and endpoints, according to a review of head-to-head studies published July 17 in the American Journal of Roentgenology. The full article is available here.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 3, 2024

Eliot Siegel, MD; Stanislav Spiridonov, MD; Nathan Gee, MD; and Anthony Chang, PhD, are among a niche gathering of early adopters, entrepreneurial physicians, medical physicists, and investors with a sweet spot for nuclear medicine, diagnostic radiology, and radiation oncology.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Current and future applications of ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) in radiology hold immense promise for improving patient care and outcomes, according to an article published October 5 in Academic Radiology. The full article can be found here.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Radiologists highly prefer patient clinical histories generated by large language models (LLMs) for oncologic imaging requisitions to those typically produced by referring physicians,according to research published February 4 in Radiology.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

New articles will be published each Monday until our official anniversary at RSNA 2024. Our top article in 2014 reported on the financial benefits of health information exchanges. Facilities that utilized HIE performed 44% to 67% fewer redundant imaging studies, depending on the modality, the group found. "Our of x-ray cases).

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Image courtesy of Scientific Reports. The full article is available here. An example of measurement on plain anterior-posterior x-rays used in the study: canal-bone-ratio CBR-7 cm (Cm/Cc) and CBR-10 cm (Dm/Dc), canal-calcar ratio CCR (Dm/Bm); canal flare index CFI (A/Dm).

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 1, 2024

A group at Mount Sinai Hospital developed a “pipeline” of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to analyze lung areas in DDR image sequences from patients. Common diagnostic tests for pulmonary disorders include chest x-rays and pulmonary function tests (PFTs). Image and caption courtesy of Chest Pulmonary.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 30, 2024

To bridge this knowledge gap, the group analyzed 327 PET/CT diagnostic radiology reports between January 2001 and December 2018 at their institution that included descriptions of the finding. The full article is available here.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The DRF was approximately 80% for a typical diagnostic x-ray acquired at 70 kV, according to the findings. “It The full article can be found here. Of the 13 prototypes, an elastic shield with small pores containing 1,200 g/m2 of the metal elements exhibited the most well-balanced performance.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 30, 2024

FDG-PET imaging shows promise for use as a diagnostic criterion for neurosarcoidosis, with a recent case series illustrating the approach was effective when gold-standard approaches were not, according to a group of researchers in Berlin. “To The article was published January 25 in Neurological Research and Practice.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 13, 2024

An AI algorithm can help identify rare tumors on upper arm bones in patients undergoing chest x-rays – findings not typically identified in daily reading practice, according to an article published March 6 in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence. Image and caption courtesy of Radiology: Artificial Intelligence.

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