AuntMinnie

JULY 15, 2024

Deuterium metabolic imaging (DMI) can reveal impaired brain glucose metabolism in patients with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study published July 16 in Radiology. Khan and colleagues recruited 10 participants with Alzheimer's disease (mean age, 68 years old, eight males) and nine cognitively healthy control participants.

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Professional Radiology

APRIL 17, 2023

Diagnostic Imaging is a great tool for your medical professional to use to detect issues sooner rather than later. There are several types of diagnostic imaging available today; each one used to visualize the internal structures of the body to assist doctors in diagnosis and treating various diseases and medical conditions.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 13, 2025

AI-guided point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) can accurately detect tuberculosis (TB), according to research presented April 14 at the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) conference in Vienna, Austria. Suttels said that these inefficiencies worsen treatment delays and disease transmission.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 22, 2024

Our study showed that the availability of PET/CT prior to the [percutaneous needle lung biopsy] improves the diagnostic biopsy rates,” wrote lead author Konstantinos Stefanidis, MD, of King’s College Hospital in London, and colleagues. Patient with extensive lung and pleural disease. (2a) A team that included researchers in the U.K.,

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

To address the knowledge gap, the team evaluated the benefit of using PI-RADS upgrading rules with MRI-directed diagnostic sequences. But evidence as to how this type of upgrade impacts various pathways for diagnosing prostate cancer is unclear. no biopsy for PI-RADS equal to or less than 2) A risk-based pathway (i.e.,

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 26, 2024

Understanding the mechanics of flow artifacts on CT or CT angiography (CTA) and how these artifacts are created is key to better disease diagnosis, according to a review published April 25 in RadioGraphics. Systemic arterial flow artifacts can cause diagnostic confusion with dissections, vascular injuries, and thrombi.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 29, 2024

A thyroid ultrasound imaging database could spur the development of more effective diagnostic and treatment models for related diseases, according to research published January 23 in Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology. In the future, we plan to integrate our algorithm with ultrasound equipment.” The full study can be found here.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 18, 2024

SimonMed Imaging has inked a research collaboration with Oxford Brain Diagnostics to explore using cortical disarray measurement (CDM) to better diagnose neurodegenerative diseases. The research will investigate CDM in patients with mild cognitive impairment to evaluate for possible Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In fact, radiology often forms the foundation of diagnostics and treatment for hundreds of other departments including cardiology, neurology, orthopedics, oncology, and even dermatology. Without access to a given EMR, it becomes impossible for different doctors to view diagnostic scans and other data relating to the patient’s condition.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 4, 2025

Preliminary studies suggest the tracer may also be effective in patients with earlier, more treatable stages of the disease, yet most of these studies have been retrospective and subject to a large risk of bias, the authors noted.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 9, 2025

This will help radiologists and neurologists across India leverage software to improve diagnostic accuracy and patient outcomes, Cortechs.ai has developed AI software for use in assessing neurological disorders such as Alzheimers disease, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, brain trauma, tumors, and other brain abnormalities. Cortechs.ai

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

. | M7-SSPH05-2 | Room N229 Findings will be presented in this Monday afternoon presentation on organ-specific ionizing radiation doses in neonatal patients who undergo interventional procedures for congenital heart disease (CHD). Median frontal and lateral dose-area product (DAP, Gy-cm2) from the cardiac catheterizations was 1.57

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 11, 2025

and radiology has learned much since then, according to experts who directly dealt with the diseases impact. While screening mammography services were halted, Patel and colleagues continued with diagnostic imaging services, especially for symptomatic patients. Its been five years since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in the U.S.,

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 2, 2025

The American College of Radiology (ACR) will offer Belgium-based icometrixs brain MRI AI software through its Alzheimers Network for Treatment and Diagnostics (ALZ-NET).

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AuntMinnie

MAY 3, 2024

SINGAPORE – MR elastography is a leading noninvasive approach for imaging liver fibrosis, yet a new technique known as “3D MRE” promises to open new opportunities for diagnosing chronic liver disease, according to a leading expert in the field. and the world. What are the future directions for the technology?

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ScienceDaily

JULY 13, 2024

Scientists have developed an artificially-intelligent tool capable of predicting in four cases out of five whether people with early signs of dementia will remain stable or develop Alzheimer's disease.

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Professional Radiology

AUGUST 28, 2024

Among the most vital tools in this preventive health is diagnostic imaging. Professional Radiology in El Paso is a top diagnostic imaging center. How Does Diagnostic Imaging Enhance Preventive Health Screenings? The post The Role of Diagnostic Imaging in Preventive Health Screenings appeared first on Professional Radiology.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Other potential uses researchers are investigating are filtering out normal chest radiographs, monitoring reading errors, and automated opportunistic screening of incidentally identified disease. These LLMs offer opportunities ranging from generating text reports from images to explaining examination results to patients."

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Cassling's MRI

JANUARY 9, 2025

What does the future of heart disease detection look like? He also discusses how this innovative solution is not just advancing diagnostic precision but also reshaping the way healthcare providers approach heart disease treatment and patient care.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 10, 2024

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a new reimbursement plan July 10 for diagnostic PET scans that would provide separate payments for radiopharmaceuticals, as well as an extra payment for hospitals when they use domestically produced technetium-99m (Tc-99m).

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Diagnostic Imaging

MARCH 11, 2024

and 3T, researchers found that 0.55T MRI provided acceptable diagnostic quality across all sequences for varying pathologies including degenerative joint disease, compression fractures and osseous metastatic disease. In a study of patients who had lumbar spine MRI exams at 0.55T, 1.5T

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AuntMinnie

JULY 28, 2023

Certain ultrasound parameters have high diagnostic value in detecting live.

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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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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2023

“Skin biopsy is the gold standard for diagnosing calciphylaxis, but it can worsen lesions and confer poorer disease prognosis,” the researchers wrote, in a study published October 23 in JAAD International. The team assessed the potential diagnostic utility of bone scans in calciphylaxis based on a review of the literature.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 2, 2024

After primary treatment with chemoradiotherapy, up to 40% of patients with HNSCC may still have residual disease in the neck. Salvage neck dissection (SND) is performed to remove the cancer, with MRI or CT and ultrasound typically used to identify the disease. The full study is available here.

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ScienceDaily

MAY 28, 2024

Regular high caffeine consumption affects dopamine function in patients with Parkinson's disease, shows a new international study. Caffeine consumption before undergoing diagnostic brain dopamine imaging may also affect the imaging results.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 20, 2024

Adding F-18 FES-PET/CT to biopsy/[immunohistochemistry] may increase the diagnostic accuracy of the ER status, especially when a tumor sample cannot be obtained, or the risk of a biopsy-related complication is high,” the group wrote. Around 70% of breast cancers express estrogen receptors.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Many diagnostic radiologists became pure CT and MRI specialists. We understand so much more about the human body, disease, and how to detect it accurately via cross-sectional means. So radiologists started dropping duties. So as to report more CT and MRI, radiologists stopped doing hands-on ultrasound and fluoroscopy.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 14, 2023

ChatGPT-4 has promise to improve disease diagnosis in complex cases by analyzin. Read more on AuntMinnie.com Related Reading: Chatbot performs well in making decisions based on ACR criteria ChatGPT tested on case-based imaging quizzes ChatGPT shows potential in free-response exams Can ChatGPT support diagnostic imaging decisions?

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Diagnostic Imaging

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Offering higher diagnostic efficacy than SPECT imaging for coronary artery disease (CAD) detection, the PET myocardial perfusion imaging agent Flyrcado™ (flurpiridaz F 18, GE HealthCare) provides unit dose availability and effectiveness in imaging patients with high BMI.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 17, 2024

Cardiac PET MPI has emerged as a key tool for diagnosing and managing patients with cardiovascular diseases, especially coronary artery disease, yet overall it remains underutilized in the U.S., Strategies to increase the use of cardiac PET myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) in the U.S. the authors noted.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The MRI PDFF measure could improve patient care by giving clinicians a more accurate picture of liver disease, a team led by Tianyi Xia, MD, of Zhongda Hospital School of Medicine, Southeast University, in Nanjing, China. There are a variety of ways to assess liver fat content, but MRI PDFF has shown high diagnostic precision.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The new horizons of advanced imaging, especially in oncology, must increasingly consider not only diagnostic efficacy but also sustainability for patients, prize-winning researchers told ECR 2025 delegates. To mitigate these effects, low-energy imaging techniques should be prioritized without compromising diagnostic accuracy.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 23, 2024

An algorithm combining the Fibrosis-4 Index (FIB-4) and an ultrasound deep-learning model could improve diagnostic accuracy and referral management for all-cause advanced liver fibrosis, a study published April 23 in Radiology found. Noninvasive tests can be used to screen patients with chronic liver disease for advanced liver fibrosis.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 27, 2025

Flyrcadois a unit-dose PET myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) agent intended for patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease. Flyrcado delivers higher diagnostic efficacy compared with standard SPECT MPI,GE said. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the injection in 2024.Flyrcadois

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 4, 2024

Part of the trial's overarching work includes predicting whether complete debulking surgery could be achieved and whether or not DW-MRI could be a cost-effective method in the diagnostic work-up of advanced ovarian cancer. that every visible disease has to be removed surgically," Lahaye said. Complete debulking is very important.

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