AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

PET scans have revealed specific brain pathology that may drive sleep disturbances in Alzheimer’s disease patients, according to a study published February 8 in the Journal of the Neurological Sciences. Of these, 119 (43%) had normal cognition, 132 (24%) had mild cognitive impairment, and three (2%) had Alzheimer’s disease.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Photon-counting CT may serve as an alternative to MRI for assessing liver fat in patients with fatty liver disease, according to an article published September 24 in Radiology. The disease affects up to 24% of the population in the U.S. and can lead to cirrhosis and even cancer if left untreated. (A) in the MASLD cohort.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Our scans show where there is patchy ventilation in patients with lung disease, and show us which parts of the lung improve with treatment," Thelwall said in a statement released by the university. The findings were published December 24 in both Radiology and JHLT Open.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

When it comes to medical imaging, radiology is what most often comes to mind, and for good reason. A large percentage of medical imaging created by most hospitals tends to come from the radiology department. In most cases, medical images and scans are placed into an electronic medical record (EMR) as a link. In the U.S.

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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

APRIL 24, 2024

Over a five-year period, a clinical practice lung cancer screening program at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC, found more disease than did the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST), researchers have reported. It also found more stage IV disease, wrote a team led by Kyle Lafata, PhD. versus 2.4%.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In further research highlighted at the meeting, Jordan Strom, MD, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston shared study findings that indicate ultrasound-enhancing agents can improve the accuracy and reliability of a standard echocardiogram performed to evaluate heart disease.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Of these, 1,088 (both CT and MRI exams) were used in a training set that included segmentations of 80 anatomic structures commonly used for measuring volume, characterizing disease, surgical planning, and opportunistic screening, while 55 (MRI exams only) were included in an internal test set. for 13 anatomic structures).

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Health Imaging

JANUARY 15, 2024

Canon Medical Systems and Olympus are collaborating for global adoption of proprietary ultrasound systems.

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Omega Medical Imaging

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Orlando Health’s Digestive Health Institute invites you to the Florida Digestive Diseases Update to be held Friday to Sunday, December 6 – 8, 2024 in Central Florida. This symposium will include clinically relevant information within an educational environment designed for optimal learning.

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Disease Nursing Education Medical Imaging 59

AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

A team led by PhD candidate Suzanne van Winkel from the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, found that a commercially available AI system successfully identified high-risk women for breast MRI in an intermediate-risk study population, including women with occult cancers on mammography.

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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. In 2018, Fishman received an endowed professorship from Johns Hopkins.

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Radiologist Education Clinic Radiology 360

AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Gastrointestinal imagers should use high-quality MR enterography for complex inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) cases that can't be dealt with using intestinal ultrasound, even though both tests contribute to overall assessment, said an expert leading an advanced course on imaging Crohn's disease at ECR 2025. "MR

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 14, 2024

Sarasota, FL-based molecular imaging developer Spectrum Dynamics Medical will integrate AI applications from Israeli company DeepDense Medical into its systems. Under an agreement, Spectrum will deploy DeepDense Medical's AI applications in its Veriton-CT, SPECT/CT, and D-SPECT cameras.

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Omega Medical Imaging

APRIL 10, 2025

By connecting with top education, research, and fellow digestive health clinicians, researchers, and industry professionals from around the world, you will gain the tools and confidence […] The post Digestive Disease Week (DDW), May 4-6, 2025 appeared first on Omega Medical Imaging.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 2, 2025

Shimadzu Precision Instruments, (SPI) which is fully owned by Shimadzu Corporation, and its division Shimadzu Medical Systems USA (SMS), have appointed a new company president effective April 1. Taisuke Ted Goto, former vice president of business administration, has been promoted to be the new president of both SMS and SPI.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 9, 2024

Ultrasound is known for its versatility in medical imaging, but it can go far beyond just diagnosing patients with various diseases. Gil Weinberg, PhD, founder of Georgia Tech's Center for Music Technology, spoke with AuntMinnie.com on ultrasound's role in empowering patients with prosthetic limbs.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 29, 2024

billion proposal by the Netherlands to fund construction of a new medical isotope production facility in Petten. The new so-called Pallas reactor will replace the existing high flux reactor, one of the world leaders in the production of medical isotopes, in operation since 1961, the commission said, in a July 26 statement.

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Health Imaging

JANUARY 17, 2024

The AI-guided technology can diagnose the disease via medical images without the need for an invasive procedure.

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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.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 24, 2024

Intelligent imaging systems that learn with each scan and produce medical images with unprecedented speed, detail, and precision represent some of the most seismic advances in radiology since the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to the inventors of computer-assisted tomography in 1979. Kelly Londy of GE HealthCare.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 3, 2025

Osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease that affects millions worldwide. The disease leads to inflammation that can destroy cartilage in the hip, which causes chronic pain. If conservative treatments with medications fail to work, hip replacement surgery is often recommended, Paolucci explained.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 31, 2025

These new codes describe the work that takes place prior to an MRI study that includes the proper assessment, consultation, and medical physics customization for patients who have an implant, device, or foreign body. 76017 MR Safety Medical Physics Exam Customization G - 6.79 76017 MR Safety Medical Physics Exam Customization G - 6.79

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 9, 2024

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune inflammatory disease that primarily involves synovial joints. Early use of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) is essential to the good control of synovitis and prevention of joint injury, the authors explained.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 18, 2023

PET scans typically used for diagnosing prostate cancer may have value in detecting inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a case series published December 8 in Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology. There is no single test available that can accurately detect asymptomatic inflammation in these patients, the researchers wrote.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 1, 2024

When a patient receives a diagnosis, they may have multiple medical specialists offering various treatment recommendations, so they may be unsure which to follow. Ultimately, we asked about 23 different diseases and disease processes such as hemoptysis, pulmonary embolism, and thoracic aortic aneurysm.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 16, 2024

SPECT/CT imaging can show over time how patients taking tafamidis for heart disease respond to the treatment, a group at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston reported. Transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR-CM) is a life-threatening disease that occurs when amyloid fibrils accumulate in the heart. years between scans.

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Disease Imaging Clinic Hospital 279

AuntMinnie

JANUARY 30, 2024

For many, machine learning's potential is more than just talk; the power of well-trained, image-augmented AI has already been demonstrated as a useful tool for quality control, disease tracking, tumor segmentation, and making prognosis predictions.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A group led by first author Hossein Ghanaati, MD, of Tehran University of Medical Sciences in Iran, presented a study demonstrating that the approach significantly reduced pain in patients, with MRIs suggesting regeneration of the affected knee cartilage.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 20, 2024

A team led by Srikanth Krishnan, MD, from Harbor-UCLA Medical Center found that at-risk firefighters experience ongoing plaque progression, which can lead to cardiovascular disease. Coronary heart disease makes up most cases, the researchers noted.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 29, 2024

Lung MRI device company Polarean Imaging has appointed Chase Hall, MD, as its new chief medical advisor. Hall is an associate professor of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, KS.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

When I was in short medical trousers, I grew up surrounded by mighty plain film gods. We understand so much more about the human body, disease, and how to detect it accurately via cross-sectional means. Not doubling every two years but expectations are steadily growing. Our forebears would weep at the modern pressure of expectations.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 6, 2024

A scientific poster on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk prediction using fat-enlarged axillary nodes visualized on screening mammograms won the Summa Cum Laude Award at the 124th American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2024

To that end, the researchers tested GPT-4’s ability to model the demographic diversity of medical diagnoses by constructing 10 unique prompts, each of which asked GPT-4 to generate an example patient presentation with a specific medical condition. Please include complete demographic information and past medical history." “I

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 28, 2024

The big question now that’s going to come up is when can you use which one and how would you choose which one of these to use first,” said Katherine Zukotynski, MD, a medical imaging expert at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. There is no cure for the disease, with treatments designed to prolong the lives of patients.

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Nuclear Medicine Radiation Disease Medical 279

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. Additionally, new treatments have recently become available for Alzheimer’s disease that can potentially slow the rate of decline.

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