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Study Says Low-Field MRI Offers Sufficient Diagnostic Quality for Detecting Spinal Pathology

Diagnostic Imaging

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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Artificial intelligence outperforms clinical tests at predicting progress of Alzheimer's disease

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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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Radiology ‘Game-Changer’: FDA Approves PET Agent for Enhanced Detection of Coronary Artery Disease

Diagnostic Imaging

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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ChatGPT outperforms clinicians in post-negative test disease probability

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ChatGPT-4 outperformed human clinicians in determining pretest and post-test disease probability after a negative test result involving chest radiographs and mammograms, according to a research letter published December 11 in JAMA Network Open.

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Interstitial lung abnormalities linked to respiratory disease risk

AuntMinnie

CT imaging shows that severe acute respiratory disease events can be caused by quantitative interstitial abnormalities (QIA) -- that is, small irregularities that don't necessarily meet diagnostic criteria for advanced pulmonary diseases but show up on CT exams over time, a study published April 30 in Radiology has reported.

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New PET and MRI Research Suggests that Visceral Fat Reduction May Prevent or Delay Alzheimer’s Disease

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Higher visceral adipose tissue reportedly accounted for 77 percent of the association between Alzheimer’s disease and high body mass index (BMI), according to new research presented at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference.

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PET/CT improves diagnostic biopsy rates in lung cancer patients

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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.,