Imaging Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2023

a biotech platform company developing therapeutics and technologies for patients with neuropsychiatric illnesses, has received FDA clearance to market NM-101, a cloud-based software platform to analyze neuromelanin-sensitive MRI scans. milla1cf Wed, 12/20/2023 - 15:41 December 20, 2023 — Terran Biosciences, Inc. ,

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Imaging Technology

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

milla1cf Fri, 02/09/2024 - 09:41 February 9, 2024 — Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurological disease that usually leads to permanent disabilities. One key feature of the disease is that it causes the patient’s own immune system to attack and destroy the myelin sheaths in the central nervous system. It affects around 2.9

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 7, 2023

F-18 FDG-PET/MRI scans without the use of a contrast agent should be the top choice for imaging children suffering from lymphoma, according to research presented recently at RSNA in Chicago. Lymphomas represent approximately 15% of all tumor diseases in children and imaging plays a key role in tumor staging to plan treatments.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Combining ultrasound with MRI could help better differentiate between benign and malignant breast nonmass-like lesions initially detected on ultrasound, a study published October 12 in Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology found. Ultrasound and MRI have their tradeoffs in supplemental breast imaging. 0.849 0.901 Specificity 52.3%

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Researchers have found that MRI reveals functional brain alterations that are associated with major depression, according to a study published February 19 in JAMA Network Open. Those who had been identified with Hospital ICD-10 diagnosis codes F32 and F33 and antidepressant use had the most alterations in these measures. "We

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Imaging Technology

MAY 6, 2024

milla1cf Mon, 05/06/2024 - 10:35 May 6, 2024 — Hvidovre Hospital has the world's first prototype of a sensor capable of detecting errors in MRI scans using laser light and gas. MRI scanners are used by doctors and healthcare professionals every day to get a unique look into the human body.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 4, 2024

Abbreviated breast MRI is not only effective for screening among high-risk women but also useful for evaluating "pure" ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), according to two presentations delivered March 2 at ECR 2024. Bartholomew's Hospital in London. Sensitivity 100% 100% Specificity 94.7%

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 2, 2024

tesla MRI AI body composition analysis Cardiac PET Cryo/thermoablation CT colonography Genicular artery embolization Hyperpolarized xenon-129 MRI PET/MRI Photon-counting CT Radiomics Theranostics Whole-body MRI screening Image of the Year 3D PET/MR image.

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Imaging Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2023

milla1cf Fri, 10/20/2023 - 18:29 October 20, 2023 — In certain cases, a new method can provide as much information from brain images taken with computed tomography (CT) as images captured with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). It has been created using deep learning, a form of artificial intelligence (AI).

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Imaging Technology

JULY 25, 2024

a clinical-stage biotech developing groundbreaking secretome therapeutics for age and disease-related immune dysfunction, has announced a partnership with Springbok Analytics , a life sciences muscle analytics company. Springbok has developed the first commercialized technology to accurately quantify individual muscles from a rapid MRI.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 5, 2024

MRI reveals the negative effects of preeclampsia on pregnant women's hearts and on the brains of their fetuses, according to research published in the April issue of Hypertension. The results highlight MRI's benefits as a prenatal assessment tool, wrote a group led by Megan Hall, MD, of St Thomas' Hospital in London, U.K. "As

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Imaging Technology

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

milla1cf Thu, 09/14/2023 - 15:05 September 14, 2023 — Insight Medbotics, a medical device company combining the accuracy of MRI with the precision of robotics, today announced a successful 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) for the IGAR system, the company’s MRI-compatible robot.

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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

MARCH 4, 2024

Research presented at ECR 2024 suggests that diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI) has value in ovarian cancer treatment planning. The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Leiden University Medical Center, and Catharina Ziekenhuis Teaching Hospital are collaborating on the multicenter MISSION trial. and in the interval group (AUC 0.83).

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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. A brain MRI in patient with mild cognitive impairment. Image courtesy of Joshua Wibecan, MD. in the Other group. “Our

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 29, 2024

A team led by study senior author William Palmer, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston found that radiologists who had access to information on patients' symptoms when they interpreted MRI spine exams achieved "a near statistically perfect agreement with spine specialists."

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Time-dependent diffusion MRI-based microstructural mapping helps predict breast cancer molecular subtypes and treatment response in women with the disease, researchers have reported. The research included 408 women with breast cancer who underwent a time-dependent diffusion MRI exam between February 2021 and May 2023.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 19, 2024

MR elastography (MRE) is an effective technique for noninvasive monitoring of liver stiffness -- a surrogate for fibrosis -- in children and young adults with autoimmune liver disease, researchers have reported. tesla MRI that included liver MRE as well as a liver biopsy within six months. years) who underwent an abdominal 1.5-tesla

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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. No image data were transmitted to GPT-4.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Integrating radiology report features into a deep-learning (DL) algorithm improves the model's ability to identify brain lesions on MRI exams, researchers have reported. In addition, 2,655 brain MRI scans taken between January and December 2022 were used for external testing. The researchers extracted textual features (i.e.,

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) can locally stage lobular breast carcinomas and could serve as an alternative to breast MRI, according to research published February 12 in Clinical Radiology. A team led by Elisabetta Giannotti, MD, from Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Cambridge, U.K., cm larger than those seen on MRI.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 29, 2024

PET brain scans show persistent brain inflammation in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), despite being treated with high-efficacy disease-modifying therapies, according to a recent study by researchers in Boston. This allows extended imaging acquisition times to measure TSPO as a biomarker, the team wrote.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

So as to report more CT and MRI, radiologists stopped doing hands-on ultrasound and fluoroscopy. Many diagnostic radiologists became pure CT and MRI specialists. But the pressure kept building, and the number of CT and MRI scans grew by 20% annually in my hospital. So radiologists started dropping duties.

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Imaging Technology

JULY 25, 2023

mmol/kg gadobutrol (Gadavist) focused on adult patients referred for contrast-enhanced MRI of certain body regions. mmol/kg gadobutrol (Gadavist) focused on adult patients referred for contrast-enhanced MRI of certain body regions. This multinational, crossover (within-patient), double-blind comparison of the safety and efficacy of 0.05

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

JULY 17, 2023

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines can clearly view non-bony parts of the body—soft tissue such as the brain, muscles and ligaments—as well as detect tumors, making it possible to diagnose many diseases and other conditions.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 30, 2024

MRI is the imaging gold standard for diagnosis, yet identifying the disease using this method remains challenging, the researchers wrote. In all three cases, gadolinium-enhanced MRI scans did not show abnormalities. F-18 FDG-PET and MRI scans of three patients. (A.1-B.1) In our outpatient clinic follow-up (2 to 2.5

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Imaging Technology

JUNE 20, 2023

Orviglance can be used in MRI scans to improve detection and visualization of focal liver lesions in patients with severely impaired kidney function who, due to the risk of serious side effects, cannot use the currently available contrast agents. So, we follow these patients; we see them many times,” said Kartalis.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2024

His research interests include using structural and functional MRI -- particularly ultrahigh-field, 7-tesla MRI -- to map brain microstructure and develop neurosurgical treatment of brain tumors, epilepsy, and neurodegenerative and movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and dystonia.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Arterial spin labeling MRI shows that alterations in women's cerebral blood flow begin during perimenopause and may be due to an increased burden of white-matter hyperintensities, researchers have reported. The group's findings were published October 18 in Stroke. "[Our]

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to market its NM-101 AI platform for the analysis of neuromelanin-sensitive MRI scans. NM-101 is a cloud-based analysis platform designed to integrate into existing workflows at hospitals and imaging centers.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Clinically significant extracardiac findings are common on CT and MRI imaging and are especially associated with exam indication and patient age, researchers have reported. Detecting and interpreting these findings is crucial for patient care, wrote a team led by Lukas Moser, MD, of University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 9, 2024

SINGAPORE -- The use of MRI for musculoskeletal (MSK) trauma imaging is becoming increasingly viable, according to a presentation delivered May 7 at the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Imaging (ISMRM) meeting. MRI is underutilized in trauma imaging and often falls short of its potential," said presenter Prof.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Massimo Mischi, PhD, of the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, described the use of ultrasound contrast agents with AI and an imaging technique known as contrast-enhanced ultrasound dispersion imaging (CUDI) to produce 3D and 4D datasets that are as good as MRI imaging.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Applying point-of-care apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) cutoffs from diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) could reduce MRI-prompted breast biopsies, a study published February 13 in Radiology found. They also reported a tradeoff of lowered sensitivity for in situ and microinvasive disease manifesting as nonmass enhancements. “Our

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Researchers led by Rui Tang from Peking University Third Hospital in Beijing, China, found that their AI system can accurately identify standard planes and perform automatic tissue segmentation. While ultrasound is a go-to method for assessing shoulder joint diseases, it is a user-dependent modality.

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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

MAY 6, 2024

Researchers from Zurich have developed a cumulative clinical risk (CCR) score that may provide an early predictive marker for long-term brain alterations and cognitive impairments in patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). Figure courtesy of Melanie Ehrler, PhD, et al. moderate to strong effect sizes).

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