AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Patients with less tau pathology on PET scans may respond better to treatment with the new Alzheimer’s disease drug donanemab, according to an October 25 news report in the journal Practical Neurology. Research suggests that the accumulation of these proteins is a continuous process that starts decades before the onset of symptoms.

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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 gas can be safely inhaled and exhaled by patients; MRI exams then show where in the lungs the gas has reached, according to the group.

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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

MARCH 20, 2024

A predictive model combining multiple ultrasonic parameters could discriminate between different liver diseases in a study published March 19 in Radiology. These findings are important for noninvasive assessment of the MAFLD disease process,” the Liu team wrote. The results have been promising when compared to liver biopsy.

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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 9, 2024

Ultrasound contrast agents show promise for detecting and evaluating uterine disorders and prostate cancers, according to research presented at the annual Advances in Contrast Ultrasound meeting in Chicago. He recommended that sonographers be trained to place IVs and administer the ultrasound agent.

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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.

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Aitia is highlighting that data from its Alzheimer's Disease Digital Twins platform will be presented at the upcoming Clinical Trials on Alzheimer's Disease (CTAD), being held from October 24 to 27 in Boston.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 23, 2024

Hyperfine is highlighting 17 ultralow-field MRI-related abstracts to be presented at the 2024 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) annual meeting, to be held from May 4 to 9 in Singapore. These include Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis.

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Radiology Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Patients with such impediments also are more likely to present to practices with late-stage disease, experts detailed in JAMA Network Open.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

M7-SSPH05-2 | Room N229 Findings will be presented in this Monday afternoon presentation on organ-specific ionizing radiation doses in neonatal patients who undergo interventional procedures for congenital heart disease (CHD). Monday, November 27 | 3:10 p.m.-3:20 3:20 p.m. | Louis, and colleagues.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 7, 2025

A PET study has revealed that women over the age of 70 who took menopausal hormone therapy (HT) more than a decade before have faster brain tau accumulation -- a key indicator of Alzheimers disease. The findings may inform [Alzheimers disease] risk discussions relating to womens reproductive health and treatment, the group wrote.

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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 services for breast and lung cancer screening were temporarily halted, imagers in x-ray, lung ultrasound, and PET/CT were busy examining patients who presented with COVID-19. Our true north is putting our patients first.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 3, 2025

Arterial embolization is a promising, minimally invasive treatment for chronic hip pain in patients with osteoarthritis, according to research presented February 28 at the ECR meeting in Vienna. Osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease that affects millions worldwide.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Millions of CT scans are performed each year -- often for lung cancer screening, but also as a first-line test when a patient presents in the emergency room -- and information from these tests can shed light on other conditions. A key theme at the conference this year will be the use of CT with AI. 9:20 a.m. | 9:30 a.m. | 10:50 a.m. |

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Yet several presentations to be given at the meeting reminded us that issues concerning basic elements of x-ray technology remain highly important, as well as whether imaging access is equitable in the "real-world." Here, we’ve highlighted just a small sample of digital x-ray presentations scheduled for RSNA 2023. . | 11:40 a.m. |

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 15, 2024

Detecting breast arterial calcifications on routine mammograms could identify women at a higher risk of future cardiovascular disease (CVD), a study published March 13 in Clinical Imaging found. They categorized breast arterial calcifications as binary (present/absent) and semi-quantitatively (mild, moderate, severe). Parity 4 0.006 3.31

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Elastography could help with treatment strategies for colorectal cancer patients, a study presented November 26 at the RSNA annual meeting found. Jae Seok Bae, MD, from Seoul National University Hospital presented research at RSNA showing the efficacy of shear-wave elastography in predicting chemotherapy response in colorectal patients.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 18, 2024

PET/CT imaging with F-18 sodium fluoride (NaF) is emerging as a sensitive tool for detecting early atherosclerosis, according to a presentation at the recent Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) annual meeting. In this study, Patil and colleagues assessed its utility in patients at low to moderate risk for the disease.

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Nuclear Medicine Imaging Modalities Disease Clinic 290

AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Also, women with high levels of unmet social needs were more likely to present with late-stage breast disease. One reason for this is that women living in disadvantaged neighborhoods continue to present with later-stage breast cancer.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

We’re once again providing a modality-by-modality overview of select scientific presentations to serve as your guide to events at McCormick Place. In fact, it’s hard to find a scientific session without at least one AI-related presentation. Central Standard Time on November 27 as well as daily presentations from vendors.

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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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PET Scan Nuclear Medicine Disease Clinic 306

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. They then compared the demographic distribution of cases generated by GPT-4 to true U.S.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

People with higher amounts of visceral abdominal fat in midlife may be at increased risk of Alzheimer's disease, according to research to be presented at the upcoming RSNA meeting. A subset of 32 patients underwent PET imaging to identify any amyloid plaque and tau tangles that would indicate the development of Alzheimer's disease.

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Diagnostic Imaging

MAY 5, 2024

fold higher risk for cardiovascular disease, according to new research presented at the ARRS Annual Meeting. The presence of fat-enlarged axillary lymph nodes on mammography screening exams is associated with a fourfold higher risk of type 2 diabetes and a 2.6-fold

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Imaging Technology

JUNE 29, 2023

Based on a novel clustering framework using sparse canonical correlation analysis (SCCA), the integrated approach was successful in identifying four subtypes of Alzheimer’s disease and the top genes associated with each, according to the authors of the study, “An SCCA-clustering framework for Alzheimer’s disease subtyping using tau PET and genomics.”

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 8, 2023

But it can be tricky to catch potential cancers once organizing pneumonia has been diagnosed, said presenter Charissa Kim, MD, PhD, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in New York City. Accurate diagnosis of organizing pneumonia is confounded by the co-existence of [the condition] with lung malignancies," Kim said.

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Imaging Radiopharmaceuticals Disease Diagnose 309

AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

We’re once again providing a modality-by-modality overview of select scientific presentations to serve as your guide to events at McCormick Place. Many other scientific presentations, scientific posters, educational courses and exhibits, and plenary sessions on AI topics also await attendees. Sunday, December 1 | 9:50 a.m.-10:00

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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. Research presented at the ARRS annual meeting highlighted the need for more detailed breast MRI reporting for neoadjuvant chemotherapy responses.

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MRI Disease Radiologist Radiation 264

AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Presentations on PET imaging in prostate cancer – an approach that is witnessing widespread adoption – include an array of studies on prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-based radiotracers. For more information on the presentations we're highlighting below and other abstracts, take a look at the RSNA 2023 meeting program.

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Diagnostic Imaging

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Higher visceral adipose tissue reportedly accounted for 77 percent of the association between Alzheimer’s disease and high body mass index (BMI), according to new research presented at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 20, 2024

Cardiac CT angiography (CCTA) shows that baseline plaque coronary burden progresses in at-risk firefighters, according to research presented July 20 at the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) annual meeting in Washington, DC. Coronary heart disease makes up most cases, the researchers noted.

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Computed Tomography Disease Medical IT 289

AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Researchers led by Ashley Pariser, MD, found that while about 93% of individuals recognize a lump as a symptom of breast cancer, less than half recognize other common symptoms tied to the disease. For the latter data point, Pariser said that about 1% of breast cancers occur in men, typically presenting as nipple changes.

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Disease Medical IT Radiology 328

AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

CHICAGO – Gallium-68 (Ga-68) RM2-PET/MRI is better than MRI alone for detecting relapse in prostate cancer patients, according to research presented November 26 at RSNA 2023. Therefore, Ga-68 RM2-PET should be considered in addition to PSMA-PET in BCR prostate cancer patients to aid in disease detection and management decision, she suggested.

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Nuclear Medicine Bone Scan MRI Disease 279

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

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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