AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

We hope you enjoy our article as well as the opportunity to hear directly from the recipients. This year's Most Effective Radiology Administrator/Manager wears multiple hats at Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJH) and Washington University (WU) in St. We're more than 20 hospitals now," Beyder said. "I Louis, MO Dmitry Beyder.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 19, 2024

Color Health’s copilot uses the same technology that drives OpenAI’s latest GPT-4o application and integrates with electronic health records (EHRs) and core hospital systems, according to the article.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 23, 2023

She spent several days in the hospital recovering, the article stated. The article reported that the nurse was in the preparation area with a patient and another nurse. The MRI machine pulled a metal bed and a nurse several feet, leaving the nurse with injuries to her pelvis, right leg, and abdomen.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 11, 2024

Ferreira did his radiology residency at the Hospital do Servidor Público in São Paulo. The facility covers more than 30 municipalities and treats an average of 30,000 patients per year, according to an article posted in May 2022 by Berit Press. Staff at the Dr. Leonel Ferreira Imaging Center treat around 30,000 patients a year.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 8, 2024

The large language model narrowly failed on part one true/false questions yet clearly passed part two single-best answer questions, noted lead author Sisith Ariyaratne, MD, of the Royal Orthopedic Hospital. The full article is available here.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

ASTRO’s recommendations are based on evidence from major clinical trials, said Janice Lyons, MD, chair of the guideline task force at the University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center in Cleveland, OH, in a statement released by the society.

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REBEL EM

JANUARY 18, 2024

PMID: 35387313 Clinical Question: Do prehospital antibiotics impact 28 day mortality, length of stay in the hospital and ICU length of stay for patients triggering sepsis compared to usual care (No prehospital antibiotics)? to 0.97; p = 0.02 to 2.07; p = 0.91 to 12.33; p = 0.26 to 0.97; p = 0.02 to 2.07; p = 0.91 to 12.33; p = 0.26

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AuntMinnie

MAY 29, 2024

Developing and testing a new class of “super phantoms” is needed to optimize new medical imaging techniques before they are used in human studies, according to an article published May 24 in Communications Engineering. The full article is available here. An international group from the U.S.,

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Alzheimer’s disease patients with cognitive impairment or dementia who were referred for amyloid PET scans had fewer hospitalizations compared with a matched control group, according to a study published October 9 in JAMA Neurology. The full article can be found here. The percentage of patients impacted was small – just 4.5%

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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. The full article can be found here. mSv for interventional radiology (24 procedure types) and 0.001 to 0.44

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 30, 2024

New articles will be published each Monday up until our official anniversary at RSNA 2024. Our article announcing the winners of our annual Minnies award is always highly popular among our members. Martha Koperwhats, Texas Children's Hospital 2. Not surprisingly, our 2002 edition took top honors for the year.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Insight CXR has been used as an aid to help interpret all posterior-anterior and anterior-posterior chest x-rays at the authors’ hospital since March 2021, with the group continually evaluating its impact in clinical practice. The full article is available here. Image courtesy of Scientific Reports.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 2, 2024

Researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) have developed and validated an abdominal organ segmentation model and made it available as an open-source application for further research and potential clinical deployment in pediatrics, according to an article published in the American Journal of Roentgenology on May 1.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 18, 2023

“We hypothesize that the hypometabolism pattern observed in long COVID patients with brain fog using F-18 FDG-PET might primarily be a signature of astrocyte-related glutamatergic dysregulation,” wrote lead study author Eric Guedj, MD, PhD, of Marseille University Hospital. The full article is available here.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 8, 2024

Adopting a responsible framework could help overcome challenges in applying AI to medical imaging, according to an article published in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology. The researchers highlighted that its main goal is to allow for automated, near real-time application of AI models on clinical images for use at the point of care.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 3, 2024

Faster intervention with endovascular thrombectomy for large vessel occlusion (LVO) stroke improves patient-reported quality of life outcomes, according to an article published June 3 in JAMA Neurology. Out of 1,105 patients who participated, there were 896 survivors with complete questionnaire scores at 90 days.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Genicular artery embolization (GAE) is likely a cost-effective treatment for symptomatic knee osteoarthritis compared to radiofrequency ablation or corticosteroid injections, according to an article published September 25 in the American Journal of Roentgenology. The full article is available here. versus 18.4% to 29.2%. “The

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Ben White

MARCH 27, 2025

If you read my article on using Autohotkey for radiology , I describe that I use a click-lock script to simulate holding down the left mouse button. Not everyone has the Shuttle or the ability to install software on hospital computers, so I was thinking about how to recreate that without the wheel.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 7, 2024

Yet according to a recent review, GES meal protocols in hospitals across the U.S. Nuclear medicine technologists are being advised that not just any meal works for patients before gastric emptying scintigraphy (GES), a common imaging procedure to evaluate how ingested food moves through the stomach.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 30, 2024

hospitals between 2016 and 2020. In this study, patients hospitalized with ischemic stroke and cardiac intervention may be less than half as likely to receive EVT as those without cardiac intervention,” the group wrote. The full article is available here. The identified 634,407 stroke patients (mean age, 69.8 years old; 50.2%

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 16, 2024

The researchers leveraged what they described as an untapped opportunity that allowed them to perform SPECT just seconds after triggering seizures, with the imaging visualizing brain regions associated with language difficulties in three patients, noted lead author Sabry Barlatey, MD, PhD, of University Hospital of Bern, and colleagues. “We

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AuntMinnie

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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Ben White

APRIL 3, 2025

My feeling, as concluded in that brief article, is that the table stakes in the future are to automate case assignment customized internal RVUs to better account for effort account for work RVUs for nonbillable tasks (but bean counting every single thing you do has its own very real negative consequences).

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 29, 2024

The finding suggests that PET imaging of translocator protein (TSPO) in the brain can serve as a biomarker for evaluating patients whose disease progresses despite treatment, noted lead author Tarun Singhal, MD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and colleagues. The full article is available here.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Louis School of Medicine and completed his residency and a neuroradiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He has published more than 1,000 articles, is the author or co-author of 10 textbooks, and member of editorial boards for more than 35 journals. He earned his medical degree from Washington University in St.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) is effective for stroke patients who need to be transferred from hospitals where they are diagnosed to centers capable of performing the procedure, according to a study published February 8 in JAMA Network Open. The full article is available here.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

More outpatient scheduling blocks may reduce resident burnout without reducing medical knowledge, according to an article published in JAMA Network Open. Veterans Administration hospital, and a local hospital, all located in Colorado, implemented a new 4 + 4 block scheduling system.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The finding is from a study conducted by a group at the University Hospital Jena in Eisenberg, Germany, that explored whether hip x-rays could be reliable indicators for bone mineral density (BMD) in male and female patients prior to THA procedures. The full article is available here.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 7, 2024

What’s more, adults with a history of diabetes (odds ratio = 1.2), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (odds ratio = 1.58), cancer (odds ratio = 1.29), or past-year hospital admissions (odds ratio = 1.44) were also more likely to receive CTC. population have not undergone guideline-compliant CRC screening.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2024

Radiology resident Kaustav Bera, MD, is a third-year resident at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. Kaustav Bera, MD, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. Bera, Gregory O'Connor, MD, and other reviewers focused on 51 articles that involved ChatGPT and radiology imaging data.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 8, 2024

The hospital's IT department provided a weekly report of patients reporting financial hardship. The complete article can be found here. A designated team member (e.g., nurse, advanced practice provider, physician) placed the needs assessment order and notified the social worker by phone or email.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 23, 2024

In addition, the article in Radiology provided an English translation of the original German summary for the case of a 48-year-old female patient. The full journal article can be found here. No image data were transmitted to GPT-4.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Peter Noël, PhD, an associate professor of radiology at Penn and director of CT research at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, told PBS station WHYY in Philadelphia that advanced CT technology has opened the door to unique scanning projects such as this one with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Finally, in a cohort of 23 patients from another hospital, the nomogram predicted 3-year progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with LACC with an area under the operating curve (AUC) of 76% and 5-year PFS with an AUC of 68%, according to the findings. The full article can be found here.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 12, 2024

To address this gap in knowledge, the researchers enrolled 237 women with early breast cancer who were undergoing adjuvant treatment with aromatase inhibitors and denosumab (60 mg every six months) at their hospital in Brescia from September 2014 to June 2018. The full article is available here.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 25, 2025

This article is an important first step that should be studied by all of us affected." What's tricky, according to the researchers, is the contradictory nature of the measure's specifications. code lists, risk model coefficients, radiation dose and noise thresholds, and required algorithms) are in the public domain."

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AuntMinnie

JULY 12, 2024

As nuclear medicine therapies gain stature compared to nuclear medicine in diagnostic imaging, hospital administrators may be eyeing the potential of adding theranostics services. Reshaping the hospital's nuclear medicine and radiopharmaceutical strategy toward theranostics involves intensive and inclusive planning, Beyder explained at SNMMI.

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