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Beware risk of adverse events associated with GBCAs

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To make the situation more complicated, not all possible adverse events from GBCAs are noted in drug packaging, wrote a team led by Lu Wang , PhD, of Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital in Yantai, China. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first GBCA in 1998, and ever since, this class of drugs has been used with MRI to diagnose disease.

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ISMRM: MRI shows promise for helping to diagnose PTSD

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SINGAPORE - MRI shows promise for helping to diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a presentation delivered May 7 at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) meeting. He and his team found motivation for the study after the Tokyo subway sarin event in 1995.

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Dartmouth event bats around promise, shortcomings of AI in healthcare

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Langlotz's laboratory investigates the use of deep neural networks and other machine-learning technologies to detect disease and eliminate diagnostic errors through analysis of medical images and clinical notes. Photo courtesy of Dartmouth.

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PET/CT shows promise detecting early atherosclerosis

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Shiv Patil, a student and researcher from the University of Pennsylvania, presented an F-18 NaF-PET/CT study that found the approach visualized biologically active vascular microcalcification in patients at early stages of the disease versus healthy volunteers.

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SNMMI: Patel discusses INOCA, new cardiac PET tracers

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INOCA is increasingly being recognized as a substantial contributor to events such as myocardial infarction and heart failure, with women more likely to have the finding, Patel noted. “It It has a strong preponderance to affect women. Women are 2.5 Women are 2.5 We don’t quite know why,” she said.

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Can MRI Diagnose Dementia?

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Can MRI diagnose dementia? The truth is that MRI is NOT the test to formally diagnose dementia. The truth is that MRI is NOT the test to formally diagnose dementia. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common and well known rendition of dementia, but there are other forms of the disease as well.

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Additional Results of POSLUMA (Flotufolastat F 18) Performance in Newly Diagnosed, High-risk Prostate Cancer Patients Presented at ASTRO

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Specifically, this sub-group examined the performance of flotufolastat F 18 PET in newly diagnosed, high-risk prostate cancer patients who had negative results with conventional imaging. Such information can help guide treatment selection and potentially avoid futile surgery for patients with high-risk disease.” “We