ScienceDaily

JANUARY 3, 2024

Research team draws up criteria for PET-based examinations of malignant brain tumors.

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Ben White

JANUARY 5, 2024

A brief and hopefully final private equity in radiology post for now. I assure you no one starts a blog during their first year of medical school in 2009 and says, one day I hope to p**s on organized medicine and large corporations as a hobby forever. With that said… § The ACR runs a large and presumably quite profitable job forum. (I believe they outsource its management to a third-party company, but it’s on their website, and their branding is all over it.

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Diagnostic Imaging

JANUARY 2, 2024

The presence of pericardial effusion on chest computed tomography (CT) was associated with a 56 percent higher 30-day mortality risk in men with COVID-19 but had no impact on the prognosis for women with COVID-19, according to newly published research.

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

JANUARY 3, 2024

Researchers have created a new brain imaging method that allows mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBIs) to be diagnosed, even when existing imaging techniques like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) don't show any structural abnormalities. The technique involves loading gadolinium, a standard MRI contrast agent, into hydrogel-based micropatches that are attached to immune cells called macrophages.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2024

ChatGPT has been tested for one full year now. Those passionate about its possibilities and its risks are now comparing it to more recent GPT releases and noting improvements. Throughout 2023, AuntMinnie.com has kept you informed about how GPT has been incorporated into various types of radiology department activities for research. As a new year begins, we asked radiologists to weigh in on what has impressed them most and what might be next for GPT.

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Diagnostic Imaging

JANUARY 4, 2024

In a recent proof-of-concept trial assessing the combination of aducanumab infusion with MRI-guided focused ultrasound to open the blood-brain barrier, researchers found significant reductions in amyloid-beta load at 26 weeks in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

JANUARY 3, 2024

Diffuse gliomas are malignant brain tumors and cannot be optimally examined by conventional imaging using MRI. Amino acid PET can better visualize the activity and spread of gliomas. An international research group (RANO Group) led by MedUni Vienna and LMU Munich has now established the first international criteria for standardized imaging of gliomas using amino acid PET.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 3, 2024

Infants with enlarged perivascular spaces have a more than two-fold greater chance of developing autism compared with infants with normal perivascular spaces, according to researchers from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. "These results suggest that perivascular spaces could serve as an early marker for autism," said study lead author Dea Garic, PhD, in a statement released January 2 by the university.

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Ben White

JANUARY 3, 2024

From “ The Bitter Lesson ” by Rich Sutton: In speech recognition, there was an early competition, sponsored by DARPA, in the 1970s. Entrants included a host of special methods that took advantage of human knowledge—knowledge of words, of phonemes, of the human vocal tract, etc. On the other side were newer methods that were more statistical in nature and did much more computation, based on hidden Markov models (HMMs).

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Diagnostic Imaging

JANUARY 2, 2024

In a study assessing the use of a genetic risk stratification model to estimate breast cancer risk in over 25,000 women, researchers found that 0.69 percent of women at low genetic risk were diagnosed with breast cancer by the age of 45 and 1.41 percent of this group were diagnosed by the age of 58.

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Imaging Technology

JANUARY 4, 2024

milla1cf Thu, 01/04/2024 - 10:47 January 4, 2024 — Diagnosing cancer today involves using chemical “contrast agents” to improve the accuracy of medical imaging processes such as X-rays as well as computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. But those agents can be expensive, take more time to use and pose potential health concerns.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 5, 2024

The impending diagnostic radiology oral exam should be welcomed for aspiring radiologists, according to an article published January 5 in Academic Radiology. A team led by Samantha Pfiffner from Wayne State University in Detroit wrote in its editorial that the oral exam, scheduled to start in 2028, will provide opportunities for a more comprehensive evaluation of radiologists.

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Ben White

JANUARY 1, 2024

In addition to being New Year’s, this site turned 15 years old (!) today. It contains hundreds of posts, over a half million words, and oodles of my time. Thanks for reading! The post Happy Birthday to Whatever This Is first appeared on Ben White.

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Diagnostic Imaging

JANUARY 4, 2024

At an amplitude of 200 mT/m and a slew rate of 200 T/m/s, the gradients for the FDA-cleared MAGNETOM Cima.X are reportedly the strongest for currently available whole-body MRI scanners.

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Radiology Business

JANUARY 3, 2024

The noted academic institution trimmed about 3 minutes from the manual feedback-sharing process while also bolstering feelings of appreciation among its imaging team.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 3, 2024

PET/CT scans have the potential to predict brain metastasis in melanoma patients, according to a study published December 26 in Cancers. In a retrospective study, a team at the University Hospital Salzburg in Austria studied baseline F-18 FDG-PET/CT imaging parameters in patients with melanoma and found they were associated with the development of metastatic brain tumors.

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UCSF Biomedical Imaging

JANUARY 3, 2024

The UCSF Radiology and Biomedical Imaging department celebrates National Mentoring Month in January, highlighting the department's formal mentoring program, managed by the Academic Affairs team, aiming to demystify the academic process for junior faculty members and ensure that they are well-supported in meeting their career goals.

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ScienceDaily

JANUARY 3, 2024

We all know someone who's had a head injury that was 'only' a concussion, but even mild traumatic brain injuries can cause lasting damage, and the vast majority are never diagnosed. A team created a way to diagnose mild TBIs (mTBIs) even when MRI scans showed nothing, using the body's own immune cells called macrophages. They attached microparticle 'backpacks' containing a common MRI contrast agent to the cells, which migrated to the brain and allowed them to see evidence of inflammation in pigs

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

JANUARY 5, 2024

The cycling of water across membrane transporters is an hallmark of the cell metabolism and is potentially of high diagnostic significance for the characterization of tumors and other diseases. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, an Italian research team has now introduced a new MRI-based method for assessing this water exchange. By this method, they were able to estimate the degree of malignancy and the success of treatments in mice tumor models.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2024

RadNet executives will spend the next 18 months learning what does and doesn't work for operating small in-store retail breast cancer screening clinics in three areas of the U.S. In early December 2023, the first of RadNet's three pilot MammogramNow clinics opened in a Walmart Supercenter in Milford, DE. Two more screening clinics are planned to open in 2024 in Walmart: one in Phoenix, AZ, the other in Hanford, CA, according to the company.

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Radiology Business

JANUARY 2, 2024

The alert comes with "negative implications," analysts noted, given heightened risk the company could fall behind on its payments or seek a distressed debt exchange.

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Explore the latest insights from the American Cancer Society's “Cancer Statistics 2024” report, which unveils multiple alarming trends in cancer data. Cancer is on the rise among young adults, and diagnoses for 6 of the 10 most common cancers are escalating. With over 2 million new cancer cases projected in the U.S. this year, employers face increased challenges when it comes to supporting employees.

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Imaging Technology

JANUARY 4, 2024

milla1cf Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:33 January 4, 2024 — Varian , a Siemens Healthineers company, and Nova Scotia Health have formed an unprecedented 10-year, $175 million CAD multi-disciplinary oncology partnership (MDOP) designed to deliver value across the Nova Scotia Health system by accelerating the patient journey from screening to survivorship. Nova Scotia has a population of over 1 million with an incidence of cancer that is above average.

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

JANUARY 4, 2024

In a paper published in npj Imaging, King's researchers have assessed the use of fertilized chicken eggs as an alternative model that can resolve both ethical and economic issues for preclinical cancer research.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2024

ChatGPT-4 consistently produces clinical vignettes that stereotype certain races, ethnicities, and genders, according to a study published in the January issue of The Lancet: Digital Health. The findings highlight an urgent need for comprehensive and transparent bias assessments of LLM tools such as GPT-4 before they are integrated into clinical care, wrote a team led by Travis Zack, PhD, of the University of California, San Francisco.

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Open Medscience

JANUARY 3, 2024

X-rays, discovered in 1895 by Wilhelm Roentgen, revolutionised medical diagnostics and profoundly influenced science and technology. The post Radiant Discovery: The Transformative Journey of X-ray Technology in Medicine and Science appeared first on Open Medscience.

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