AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 12, 2023

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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AuntMinnie

APRIL 30, 2024

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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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. DMI is an emerging method for imaging tissue metabolism based on MR spectroscopic detection of deuterium-labeled compounds, they explained.

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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. Image and caption courtesy of the RSNA. All lesions had also been identified at mammography and MRI.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 22, 2024

PET/CT imaging can serve as a metabolic guide to increase the accuracy of needle biopsies in patients with suspicious lung nodules, according to a study published January 18 in the European Journal of Radiology. Patient with extensive lung and pleural disease. (2a) Image courtesy of the European Journal of Radiology.

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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 the pandemic affected medical operations across the country, the experts said that radiologists developed and honed their sense of resiliency as imaging was placed on the front lines.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The study results suggest that radiologists must keep in mind that patients with COVID-19 can initially present with symptoms other than respiratory ones but still have the disease, wrote a team led by Dr. Rydhwana Hossain of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. "In Images courtesy of the RSNA.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It's better to take Prostate Imaging-Reporting and Data System (PI-RADS) upgrading rules into account when it comes to deciding whether a patient with clinically significant prostate cancer needs a biopsy, researchers have reported. "[Our] no biopsy for PI-RADS equal to or less than 2) A risk-based pathway (i.e.,

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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. To address these issues, Li and colleagues built their thyroid ultrasound imaging database.

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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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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The global medical imaging community has paid tribute to Willi Kalender, PhD, the renowned medical physicist who died on October 21 at the age of 75. He is the father of contemporary CT imaging -- and thus of clinical radiology as we know it today," Christiane Kuhl, MD, PhD, told AuntMinnie.com on November 4. Willi Kalender, PhD.

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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). Participating imaging facilities in ALZ-NET will be offered discounted access to the software to encourage standardized ARIA monitoring, icometrix said.

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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. Image and caption courtesy of the RSNA. Curved multiplanar reconstructions with 0.6-mm

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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. Questions ranged from those on simple diagnostic subjects (“My doctor wants to run tests to diagnose coronary artery disease.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 3, 2025

Radiologist Jelle Barentsz, MD, PhD, of Radboud University in the Netherlands, emphasized that poor-quality MRI images are leading to prostate cancer overdiagnosis. Barentsz also suggested decreasing opportunistic screening by standardizing the entire diagnostic path. "We What is the quality of the images I used in my study?

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 12, 2025

A team led by radiologist Young Joon Lee, MD, PhD, and urologist Hyong Woo Moon, MD, PhD, both from The Catholic University of Korea in the Republic of Korea, compared the diagnostic performance of the prostate cancer AI and radiologists clinical reports for cancer detection. Caption and image courtesy of RSNA.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

CHICAGO – Black patients receive fewer MRI scans for Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis and undergo imaging at an older age than other racial groups, according to research presented November 27 at RSNA 2023. Image courtesy of Joshua Wibecan, MD. A brain MRI in patient with mild cognitive impairment. in the Other group.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 4, 2024

Life Molecular Imaging (LMI) and Sofie Biosciences have begun offering the Neuraceq ( florbetaben F-18) PET radiotracer produced at Sofie's radiopharmaceutical manufacturing site in Cleveland, Ohio. With this expansion, LMI continues driving commercial sales of Neuraceq around the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its flurpiridaz F-18 radiotracer for PET imaging of coronary artery disease. Although PET MPI as a modality enables high diagnostic accuracy as compared with SPECT MPI, only a minority of annual PET scans in the U.S. with 695,000 deaths recorded in 20214.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Instead, the AuntMinniecommunity gravitated more toward articles describing how advanced image analysis -- including AI-based assessment of body composition on CT scans -- can track treatment results and predict patient outcomes. Researchers warned that the COVID-19 vaccine was manifesting on imaging in ways that appeared to be disease.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2023

MR proton density fat fraction (PDFF) imaging helps predict liver health, researchers have found. 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. Biobank (a U.K.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

A team led by Jinhao Lyu, MD, from the Chinese PLA General Hospital in Beijing found that the synthetic images produced by their system were comparable to real CTA images, which could help assess the aorta and carotid arteries while avoiding risks related to contrast media use. and p > 0.99, respectively).

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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. We are known for our accurate and detailed imaging, which ensures the best possible care for our patients.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Middlebrooks' research interest consists of using ultrahigh-field, 7-tesla MRI to plot brain microstructure and develop surgical treatment of brain tumors, epilepsy, and neurodegenerative and movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and dystonia. AI Project, and a member of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The scanners could reconstruct images faster than we could report them. Many diagnostic radiologists became pure CT and MRI specialists. The only way they could appease the gods of cross-sectional imaging was to avoid contact with other humans. A good day five to 10 years ago was reporting 40 cross-sectional imaging studies.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

An AI algorithm designed for brain PET imaging found a glioblastoma in a patient that had gone undetected by physicians, according to a case reported February 15 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Image courtesy of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. A link to the full case report can be found here.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 6, 2024

Deep learning-based image reconstruction (DLR) has been a hot topic in CT over the past five years, as researchers and vendors have continuously demonstrated the technology's potential to improve on legacy and filtered back-projection (FBP) reconstruction methods. Accordingly, commercial and research activity has accelerated.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 19, 2024

more than 6 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease, a debilitating and far-reaching disease that accounts for 60% to 80% of dementia cases, and by 2050, this number is projected to rise to nearly 13 million, according to Alzheimer’s Disease International. The disease affects memory, thinking, and behavior. In the U.S.,

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 15, 2024

The document was published jointly March 11 in the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology , Clinical Infectious Diseases , the Heart Rhythm Journal , and JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging. The recommendations emphasize the complementary nature of these advanced nuclear medicine exams. The full recommendations can be found here.

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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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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

As the initial COVID-19 vaccines became available in the second year of the pandemic, reports emerged of imaging findings associated with vaccination. Vaccinated patients could demonstrate imaging results of how vaccines could impact imaging results. Images and captions courtesy of the American Roentgen Ray Society.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 31, 2024

Dynamic digital radiography (DDR) has shown for the first time that it can be used to automatically capture lung signal changes during forced breathing in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a recent study. Dynamic image data was acquired at 7.5 and Japanese developers wrote.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

VIENNA -- It's definitely possible to develop a successful cardiac imaging practice, according to a professional development presentation delivered February 28 at the ECR in Vienna. Gutberlet described how he came to cardiac imaging early in his medical career. years of follow-up compared with CT imaging (2.1% But he persevered.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Noninvasive cardiac imaging tests lead to reduced downstream costs, and stress echocardiography may be the go-to modality with this in mind, according to Canadian research published November 14 in the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography. Conversely, myocardial perfusion imaging had a cost ratio of 1.26 respectively.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 2, 2024

FDG-PET/CT imaging can reduce unnecessary surgeries to remove residual neck cancer in patients who have undergone chemoradiotherapy, according to a study published June 28 in Radiotherapy and Oncology. After primary treatment with chemoradiotherapy, up to 40% of patients with HNSCC may still have residual disease in the neck.

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