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AuntMinnie 2007: Gadolinium: A 'necessary factor' in the development of NSF?

AuntMinnie

Imagine going in for a diagnostic MRI scan and coming out with a progressive, irreversible, and potentially fatal disease. It certainly doesn't help matters that the disease has been linked to gadolinium-based contrast agents, a ubiquitous tool in the MR armamentarium. Louis hospital. In 2006 the U.S.

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Epicardial adipose tissue on LDCT tied to cardiovascular mortality risk

AuntMinnie

Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) on low-dose CT (LDCT) images is tied to higher cardiovascular mortality risk in lung cancer patients, according to research published February 18 in Radiology. Along with being the main cause for developing lung cancer, smoking is also tied to cardiovascular disease development.

Disease 147
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AI Identifies Non-smokers at High Risk for Lung Cancer

Imaging Technology

a medical student at Boston University School of Medicine and researcher at the Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center (CIRC) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School in Boston. Deep learning is an advanced type of AI that can be trained to search X-ray images to find patterns associated with disease.