AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

PET scans have revealed specific brain pathology that may drive sleep disturbances in Alzheimer’s disease patients, according to a study published February 8 in the Journal of the Neurological Sciences. Of these, 119 (43%) had normal cognition, 132 (24%) had mild cognitive impairment, and three (2%) had Alzheimer’s disease.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Photon-counting CT may serve as an alternative to MRI for assessing liver fat in patients with fatty liver disease, according to an article published September 24 in Radiology. The disease affects up to 24% of the population in the U.S. and can lead to cirrhosis and even cancer if left untreated. (A) in the MASLD cohort.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

When it comes to medical imaging, radiology is what most often comes to mind, and for good reason. A large percentage of medical imaging created by most hospitals tends to come from the radiology department. In most cases, medical images and scans are placed into an electronic medical record (EMR) as a link. In the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Of these, 1,088 (both CT and MRI exams) were used in a training set that included segmentations of 80 anatomic structures commonly used for measuring volume, characterizing disease, surgical planning, and opportunistic screening, while 55 (MRI exams only) were included in an internal test set. Example MRI scans in the training dataset.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Gastrointestinal imagers should use high-quality MR enterography for complex inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) cases that can't be dealt with using intestinal ultrasound, even though both tests contribute to overall assessment, said an expert leading an advanced course on imaging Crohn's disease at ECR 2025. "MR

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Ultrahigh-spatial-resolution photon-counting detector CT (PCCT) improves the evaluation of coronary artery disease (CAD) -- enabling the reclassification of disease to a lower category in 54% of patients, researchers have found. Curved multiplanar reconstructions with 0.6-mm mm (yellow outline), 0.4-mm mm (blue outline), and 0.2-mm

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In further research highlighted at the meeting, Jordan Strom, MD, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston shared study findings that indicate ultrasound-enhancing agents can improve the accuracy and reliability of a standard echocardiogram performed to evaluate heart disease.

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Omega Medical Imaging

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Orlando Health’s Digestive Health Institute invites you to the Florida Digestive Diseases Update to be held Friday to Sunday, December 6 – 8, 2024 in Central Florida. This symposium will include clinically relevant information within an educational environment designed for optimal learning.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2024

ChatGPT-4 consistently produces clinical vignettes that stereotype certain races, ethnicities, and genders, according to a study published in the January issue of The Lancet: Digital Health. Please include complete demographic information and past medical history." “I I am a medical educator. prevalence estimates.

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AuntMinnie

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. But we're still just scratching the surface." Perry Pickhardt, MD.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 23, 2024

OpenAI's GPT-4 AI model can utilize imaging reports to generate summaries of disease course in patients with complex glioblastoma, improving treatment planning and potentially even enhancing radiology workflows, according to research published July 23 in Radiology.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 18, 2023

PET scans typically used for diagnosing prostate cancer may have value in detecting inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a case series published December 8 in Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology. Image courtesy of Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology. The full study is available here.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 31, 2025

These new codes describe the work that takes place prior to an MRI study that includes the proper assessment, consultation, and medical physics customization for patients who have an implant, device, or foreign body. 76017 MR Safety Medical Physics Exam Customization G - 6.79 76017 MR Safety Medical Physics Exam Customization G - 6.79

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 9, 2024

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune inflammatory disease that primarily involves synovial joints. Early use of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) is essential to the good control of synovitis and prevention of joint injury, the authors explained.

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AuntMinnie

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. Systemic inflammatory syndromes contribute to unique elevated atherosclerotic risk and incident cardiovascular disease, according to Weber.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

When I was in short medical trousers, I grew up surrounded by mighty plain film gods. By locking doors, retreating to hard-to-find PACS stations, giving up clinical meetings, and not answering phones or emails, radiologists found they could get more cross-sectional done. Our forebears would weep at the modern pressure of expectations.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 16, 2024

SPECT/CT imaging can show over time how patients taking tafamidis for heart disease respond to the treatment, a group at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston reported. Transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR-CM) is a life-threatening disease that occurs when amyloid fibrils accumulate in the heart. years between scans.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 28, 2024

ChatGPT would require further refinement before being used clinically to help educate patients about cardiac imaging, according to a study published May 23 in Clinical Imaging. The responses were scored as correct, incorrect, or clinically misleading by two cardiologists and one radiologist, with categorization based on majority vote.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Organizing pneumonia can hide underlying lung cancers in up to 10% of cases, and repeat imaging in the form of PET/CT -- and additional biopsy -- should be considered in patients with high clinical suspicion of malignancy, researchers have reported. Kim discussed a case that demonstrated how additional biopsy proved necessary.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 30, 2025

The finding is from a prospective analysis in 91 patients who underwent surgery based on the results of the scans and suggests the technique is comparable to gold standard adrenal vein sampling, noted lead author Guoyang Zheng, MD, of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing, and colleagues. and a diameter of 0.8

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 24, 2024

Intelligent imaging systems that learn with each scan and produce medical images with unprecedented speed, detail, and precision represent some of the most seismic advances in radiology since the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to the inventors of computer-assisted tomography in 1979. Kelly Londy of GE HealthCare.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 28, 2024

The big question now that’s going to come up is when can you use which one and how would you choose which one of these to use first,” said Katherine Zukotynski, MD, a medical imaging expert at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. There is no cure for the disease, with treatments designed to prolong the lives of patients.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 25, 2024

Microsoft is collaborating with Mass General Brigham and the University of Wisconsin (UW) School of Medicine and Public Health along with its partnering health system, UW Health, to support research on AI in medical imaging.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

When medical management does not suffice, gynecologists could perform a hysterectomy or myomectomy or refer patients to an interventional radiologist to perform a UAE. But hysterectomy is the most common treatment for fibroids, at 75%. The complete study can be found here.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 5, 2023

MRI shows that injections of mesenchymal stem cells can improve clinical symptoms of patients with knee osteoarthritis and may result in early cartilage regeneration, according to research delivered November 30 at RSNA in Chicago. Few effective treatments are available other than medical therapy for pain control, Ghanaati noted.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 6, 2024

A scientific poster on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk prediction using fat-enlarged axillary nodes visualized on screening mammograms won the Summa Cum Laude Award at the 124th American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 9, 2025

The following members secured the MSCCT designations last year: Ronald Karlsberg, MD, Cedars Sinai Smidt Heart Institute and the David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA Ronen Rubinshtein, MD, Edith Wolfson Medical Center, Holon, Israel The following members earned the FSCCT designation: A.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 30, 2024

For many, machine learning's potential is more than just talk; the power of well-trained, image-augmented AI has already been demonstrated as a useful tool for quality control, disease tracking, tumor segmentation, and making prognosis predictions.

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Everything Rad

APRIL 14, 2025

RT (R)(T) | Clinical Applications Specialist, Carestream The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preventions National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is deciding on expanding their federal program known as the B Reader Program. Compared to only 500 hours of clinical experience for NPs and 2000 hours for PAs.

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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. The disease is a particular concern among cancer patients, they noted.

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Imaging Technology

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

A large study, needed for FDA clearance, demonstrated that the use of icobrain aria significantly increases the accuracy of ARIA assessments by radiologists and hence allows for safer use of new amyloid-beta targeting therapies for Alzheimer’s disease patients. Slow Adoption of Alzheimer’s Treatments Amid Safety Concerns Figure 1.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Medical student Morgan Groover and Fnu Nutan, MD, discussed the finding via a literature review of cases that suggest bone scans could play a role over invasive biopsies. All but one patient had renal disease and most had several other comorbidities, the authors wrote.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 29, 2024

Lung MRI device company Polarean Imaging has appointed Chase Hall, MD, as its new chief medical advisor. Hall is an associate professor of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, KS.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 15, 2024

Eleven medical associations have released guidance on the use of PET/CT and SPECT/CT for patients with cardiovascular (CV) infections. The document was published jointly March 11 in the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology , Clinical Infectious Diseases , the Heart Rhythm Journal , and JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.

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Aidoc

JANUARY 8, 2025

This tension is evident with clinical AI a field that promises to reshape healthcare but also pushes the boundaries of privacy in new ways. Clinical AI systems rely on vast amounts of patient data to train and improve algorithms, enabling everything from early disease awareness to personalized treatment plans.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 10, 2025

A deep-learning model based on MRI and clinical parameters appears effective for predicting the risk of prostate cancer progression, according to a study published January 10 in Radiology: Imaging Cancer. The scans came from an internal cohort (Radboud University Medical Center) and an external cohort (Netherlands Cancer Institute).

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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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