AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 7, 2024

MR imaging has revealed the brain's waste-clearing pathways (that is, perivascular spaces, or fluid-filled structures along arteries and veins) for the first time, investigators have reported. A team led by lead author Erin Yamamoto, MD, and senior author Juan Piantino, MD, both of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland found that "a well-functioning glymphatic system efficiently carries waste proteins toward veins exiting the brain.

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Radiology Business

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The administration is seeking greater communication between the manufacturers of breakthrough devices and physician professional societies such as the ACR.

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Damage to the brainstem—the brain's 'control center'—is behind long-lasting physical and psychiatric effects of severe COVID-19 infection, a study suggests.

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Radiology Business

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Founded in 2019, the firm is focused on developing products for the diagnosis and therapy of blood cancers and other indications not addressed by nuclear medicine.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

PSMA PET/CT revealed progressive PCa in 31 percent of patients who demonstrated greater than a 50 percent decline in PSA level after treatment with either an androgen receptor-targeted agent or chemotherapy.

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Scientists have long theorized about a network of pathways in the brain that are believed to clear metabolic proteins that would otherwise build up and potentially lead to Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. But they had never definitively revealed this network in people—until now.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 7, 2024

About half of Canadian physicians expressed some enthusiasm about AI, yet 81% said there should be a legal framework for its use in medicine, according to an October 3 Medscape report. In a survey of more than 700 physicians across all specialties about their views on AI in the medical workplace, 47% expressed enthusiasm, while 31% said they were neutral, and 22% said they were apprehensive.

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Diagnostic Imaging

OCTOBER 7, 2024

While staffing shortages in radiology continue to persist after the COVID-19 pandemic, current and emerging innovations powered by artificial intelligence (AI) may help facilities navigate these challenges and mitigate rising costs of health care.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Screening mammography exams arranged from low to high breast density can boost radiologists' interpretation performance, suggest findings published on October 8 in Radiology. Researchers led by doctoral candidates Jessie Gommers and Sarah Verboom from Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, found slight improvements in the batch reading performance of radiologists when exams were ordered this way, as well as reduced reading times.

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MRI Network

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The cost of healthcare continues to rise in 2024 across the United States. New technologies, rising coverage premiums, and talent shortages all contribute to the increasing cost of caring for and providing the right treatment to patients. While physicians and medical administrators are not directly responsible for many causes of soaring health costs, a collaborative approach with policymakers could help bring costs back under control.

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Health Imaging

OCTOBER 7, 2024

A new study found cumulative radiation exposure of 16 mSv to red bone marrow can cause an increased rate of some hematological malignancies.

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ScienceDaily

OCTOBER 7, 2024

A new study definitively reveals the existence of a system that had been theorized to clear metabolic wastes in the human brain. The study uses imaging in neurosurgery patients to show how brain's glymphatic system clears waste; lifestyle measures can keep system sharp.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Portable ultrasound company EchoNous and AI and robotics company Mendaera have established a commercial partnership to develop new ultrasound-guided technology for interventional procedures. The partnership will enable compatibility between EchoNous’ advanced ultrasound platform, Kosmos, and Mendaera’s handheld robotic interventional platform. Once commercialized, Mendaera will offer the EchoNous Kosmos ultrasound technology as an imaging option for its robotic customers, EchoNous said.

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Imaging Technology

OCTOBER 7, 2024

tim.hodson Mon, 10/07/2024 - 15:01 A major update was made to the International Nuclear Workers Study (INWORKS) , an international epidemiological study of workers in the nuclear sector to assess their risks of cancer and non-cancerous diseases. David Richardson, PhD, professor of environmental and occupational health at UC Irvine Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health, was the principal investigator for this important study and senior author of a publication in the Lancet Haematolo

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Women over the age of 40 in Ontario, Canada, can now self-refer for publicly funded mammograms through the government’s breast cancer screening program, officials said in an October 8 news release. The province invested nearly $20 million to increase the ability of its participating Ontario Breast Screening Program partners to connect more women to breast cancer screening by adding more site hours, appointment spots, and training additional staff, according to the statement.

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MedImaging MRI

OCTOBER 7, 2024

A new deep-learning framework rapidly trains itself to automatically analyze and diagnose MRIs and other 3D medical images, achieving accuracy comparable to medical experts but in a fraction of the time.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The American College of Radiology (ACR) has begun participating in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Total Product Life Cycle Advisory Program ( TAP ) pilot. TAP's goal is to increase radiologist and patient access to safe, effective, and clinically meaningful radiology device innovations, including AI-enabled software. The FDA established it initially to offer input in the areas of patient engagement, clinical evidence development, clinical practice and new technology adoption, and

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MedImaging General Imaging

OCTOBER 7, 2024

A new deep-learning framework rapidly trains itself to automatically analyze and diagnose MRIs and other 3D medical images, achieving accuracy comparable to medical experts but in a fraction of the time.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 7, 2024

GE HealthCare (GEHC) is highlighting results from a phase I clinical trial for a macrocyclic manganese-based MRI contrast agent. The trial was conducted at Oslo University Hospital in Rikshospitalet, Norway, and its results were presented at the Contrast Media Research symposium in Oslo. It found that the agent was well tolerated by patients and produced no serious adverse events or dose-limiting toxicities, the company said.

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JVIR

OCTOBER 7, 2024

To study the in vivo safety and efficacy of a novel radiopaque non-adhesive polyacrylate peripheral liquid embolic system (PA, AMBER SEL-P) relative to ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVOH, OnyxTM) in a healthy swine endovascular model.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 7, 2024

To manage Generation Z colleagues effectively in the workplace, it's essential to avoid stereotypes and to understand why there are differences between the various generations. That's the advice of an expert who's organizing a plenary session at the French national radiology congress, JFR 2024, about Generation Z (typically defined as those born between the mid-1990s and 2010-2012).

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JVIR

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The goal of this study was to evaluate whether there is an association between academic productivity and NIH grant funding among academic interventional radiologists. A database containing board-certified US interventional radiologists was previously created for a study evaluating h-index in 2021. The Scopus database was used to add the h-index values for 2023.

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

OCTOBER 7, 2024

For years, cancer researchers have noticed that more men than women get a lethal form of brain cancer called glioblastoma. They've also found that these tumors are often more aggressive in men. But pinpointing the characteristics that might help doctors forecast which tumors are likely to grow more quickly has proven elusive. University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to reveal those risk factors and how they differ between the sexes.

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JVIR

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Acute portomesenteric venous thrombosis (PVT) is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition in individuals without cirrhosis. Initial management typically involves anticoagulation therapy, but the optimal approach to interventional treatment remains a topic of ongoing research. This article explores both traditional and emerging endovascular techniques, providing an overview of the existing evidence supporting their use.

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JVIR

OCTOBER 7, 2024

To compare the efficacies of percutaneous transhepatic obliteration (PTO) with initial afferent vein embolization (PTO-A) and with initial efferent vein embolization (PTO-E) for gastric varices (GVs).

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JVIR

OCTOBER 7, 2024

To compare the safety and effectiveness of liver vein deprivation (LVD) and portal vein embolization (PVE) in patients scheduled to undergo liver resection.

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