AuntMinnie

JANUARY 24, 2025

Brain MRI shows promise for surveilling women at risk for asymptomatic stage IV breast cancer metastases by tracking molecular subtypes of the disease, researchers have reported. "[We Following [a] six-month MRI, the cumulative frequency was approximately a quarter across all subtypes."

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Using AI with mammography can help select women at high risk of breast cancer for supplemental MRI, according to research published February 4 in Radiology. Women at high risk of breast cancer, such as those with a personal history or family history of the disease or those with dense breasts, may be recommended for supplemental imaging.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 25, 2024

MRI illuminates the structural and functional organization of the brain -- thus helping clinicians predict the progression of Parkinson's disease in patients in its early stages, researchers have found.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 6, 2025

Postoperative MRI surveillance appears to lower the odds of advanced second breast cancer in women with a personal history of the disease, researchers have reported. "In Images in a 40-year-old woman who underwent breast-conserving surgery for left breast cancer and a surveillance breast MRI examination 25 months after surgery. (A)

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Health Imaging

JUNE 25, 2024

MR imaging could provide insight into how Parkinson’s disease will progress years before its related symptoms become debilitating.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The study results suggest that the model, called TotalSegmentator MRI, could improve radiology department workload, said senior author Jakob Wasserthal, PhD, of University Hospital Basel in Switzerland. To this end, D'Antonoli and colleagues built TotalSegmentator MRI, which they based on nnU-Net. for 13 anatomic structures).

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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).

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Functional MRI (fMRI) has revealed a brain circuit for creativity, researchers from Mass General Brigham in Boston have reported. The neuroanatomical origins of creativity have long been of interest to researchers, and may also help clinicians better understand symptoms among patients with various brain diseases.

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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. However, the use of PET remains limited by its higher cost and lower availability than MRI, according to the authors.

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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. The disease affects up to 24% of the population in the U.S. in the MASLD cohort.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

PET imaging using a newly developed radiotracer has identified different patterns of brain tau pathology over time in early-onset versus late-onset Alzheimer’s disease patients, according to a study published February 1 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. The team prospectively enrolled 52 participants (age, 69.7 ± 8.4 years;

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 16, 2025

Powered by the Oxford, England-based company's cortical disarray measurement technology, CDM Insights allows for clinical assessment of the brain's microstructures via MRI scans. Healthcare practitioners can use this data to evaluate patients with neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 4, 2024

A research group based in Saclay, near Paris, has taken the wraps off what it claims are the world's first MRI scans of the human brain in vivo taken at a field strength of 11.7 Such images would require hours to obtain with conventional MRI systems." President Emmanuel Macron has congratulated the researchers on social media.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A PET radiotracer for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease may also be used to measure vascular brain changes in patients during PET/MRI scans, according to a study published December 7 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. This is also the first comparison of the use of F-18 florbetaben versus O-15 water PET to measure CBF, they added.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 2, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Eli Lilly's drug donanemab (Kisunla) for the treatment of early Alzheimer's disease, including mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia. Donanemab is a monoclonal antibody that targets and clears beta-amyloid protein in the brain.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Phler's team explored whether a technique called free-breathing phase-resolved functional lung (PREFUL) MRI -- which analyzes air movement in and out of the lungs and blood flow through the lungs, and doesn't require radiation or intravenous contrast -- could better image patients with long COVID. "The

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Imaging Technology

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

A large study, needed for FDA clearance, demonstrated that the use of icobrain aria significantly increases the accuracy of ARIA assessments by radiologists and hence allows for safer use of new amyloid-beta targeting therapies for Alzheimer’s disease patients. Example of how ARIA can present itself on a brain MRI scan.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Adding MRI features to clinical ones in a machine learning model can help predict the progression of Alzheimer's disease among those with early disease, according to a study published on December 13 in Alzheimer's & Dementia. tesla MR imaging and the rest received 3-tesla imaging.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 15, 2024

Several neoadjuvant chemotherapy response characteristics are often left out of breast MRI reports, suggest findings presented May 7 at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting. Contrast-enhanced breast MRI has high sensitivity and can evaluate response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer patients.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A short MRI protocol is just as effective for assessing liver cancer treatment as a complete one, according to research highlighted at the recent RSNA meeting. There are] few studies comparing abbreviated MRI to complete MRI with gadoxetate for the detection of liver metastases," she said. response category 0.68

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 12, 2025

The findings could help clinicians tailor biopsy recommendations for men with low- to intermediate risk of the disease, according to the authors. Standard clinical practice has shifted from conducting systematic prostate biopsies without MRI guidance to using MRI-guided biopsies," the team wrote.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 13, 2024

The use of breast MRI has increased 14-fold since the American College of Radiology (ACR) changed its guidelines in 2018, a study presented May 7 at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting found. Also, women with both dense breasts and a known genetic mutation had the largest MRI uptake of any risk cohort.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

PET, CT, and MRI use for assessing coronary artery disease increased in Medicare patients from 2018 to 2022, while SPECT and stress echocardiography declined over the same period, researchers have reported. Stress MRI (3,932 procedures) was the least commonly used modality. In comparison, SPECT was six times more frequent (1.3

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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. This was all delegated.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 5, 2024

Cornelia Laule, PhD SINGAPORE – Quantitative MRI techniques offer valuable insights into diverse pathological processes underlying multiple sclerosis (MS), with these techniques poised for clinical use, according to a leading expert. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS).

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 22, 2023

White matter hyperintensities are easily seen on MRI as markers of injury of various causes. Tracking levels of white matter hyperintensities on brain MRI exams shows promise for evaluating long-term effects of repetitive head impacts, Alosco and colleagues noted.

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Health Imaging

JANUARY 27, 2025

Researchers with the University of Virginia Arlington are working to develop anew way of analyzing fat content around the heart.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Dedicated ultrasound and MRI protocols -- in contrast to routine ones -- are more effective in diagnosing endometriosis, researchers have reported. Correct workup [of endometriosis] is imperative for timely diagnosis and can involve both ultrasound and MRI," it explained. The weighted mean specificity for ultrasound was 84.4%

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 8, 2024

PET/MRI imaging shows promise in diagnosing fevers or inflammation of unknown origin and may have advantages over PET/CT, according to a study published January 3 in the European Journal of Radiology. They evaluated the sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values of the PET/MRI findings in relation to the final diagnosis.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

To address the knowledge gap, the team evaluated the benefit of using PI-RADS upgrading rules with MRI-directed diagnostic sequences. Thadeu de Oliveira Correia and colleagues conducted research that included 716 patients without known prostate cancer who underwent prostate MRI followed by biopsy between January 2016 and May 2020.

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

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AuntMinnie

JULY 25, 2024

A PET/MRI study has provided insights into the neurobiology of late-life depression, with researchers reporting that tau protein – a key protein involved in Alzheimer’s disease – does not appear to be involved in the condition. All patients were of similar ages and all were white.

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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

JULY 1, 2024

PET/CT imaging with a new radiotracer (F-18 PSMA-1007) is superior to MRI prior to surgery in men with intermediate-risk and high-risk prostate cancer, according to a study published on July 1 in JAMA Oncology.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2024

A novel machine-learning algorithm used with MRI can harmonize brain volumetric data of patients undergoing Alzheimer's disease assessment gathered from different scanners, researchers have reported. But differences in MRI acquisition protocols and scanners can affect the consistency of brain volumetry assessment.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Morphological markers culled from diffusion tensor MRI (DT-MRI) brain scans using an AI algorithm can help diagnose autism in young children with an accuracy rate of 98.5%, according to research to be presented at the upcoming RSNA meeting. This approach could reduce the psychologists' workload by up to 30%."

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