Diagnostic Imaging
AUGUST 19, 2024
For patients with stable chest pain, CT angiography demonstrated a nearly 40 percent higher sensitivity rate than exercise electrocardiography and over an 18 percent higher sensitivity rate than SPECT for detecting obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD).
Radiology Business
AUGUST 20, 2024
“Disability rights are human rights, and every policy is a disability policy issue," U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., said in a statement after the announcement.
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AuntMinnie
AUGUST 23, 2024
While the use of ultrasound for pediatric appendicitis imaging has increased, the modality -- as well as MRI -- remains underutilized in this area, according to research published August 22 in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery. A team led by Mark Slidell, MD, from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, found that CT remains the most used imaging method for diagnostic pediatric appendicitis in hospitals that don’t participate in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program - Pediatrics (N
Health Imaging
AUGUST 18, 2024
Compared to standard hip-to-waist ratio measurements and BMI, the algorithm identifies significantly more instances of metabolic syndrome and its severity in individual patients.
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Diagnostic Imaging
AUGUST 20, 2024
New research suggests the use of an AI software may help rule out pathology on over 50 percent of unremarkable chest X-rays with a 98 percent sensitivity threshold.
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AuntMinnie
AUGUST 22, 2024
Football, basketball, and hockey oh my! Sports radiologists are preparing for another fall season of high-contact sports, and that means brushing up on protocols and emphasizing teamwork among one's clinician colleagues. But getting ready for an uptick in musculoskeletal imaging doesn’t have to be daunting, according to Tim Klostermeier, MD, from UC Health in Cincinnati, OH.
Health Imaging
AUGUST 19, 2024
According to data shared by the CDC last year, around 34% of patients who contracted COVID between 2020 and 2023 reported losing their sense of smell.
Diagnostic Imaging
AUGUST 19, 2024
Detecting cerebral microbleed (CMB) in one of six healthy adults in a new study, researchers also found that CMB was the only MRI marker of small vessel disease (SVD) to be significantly associated with traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Radiology Business
AUGUST 23, 2024
University of Toronto experts analyzed information from the U.S. FDA's database, pinpointing reasons that errors occurred during thermal ablation procedures.
AuntMinnie
AUGUST 19, 2024
Simple, alternative lung cancer screening (LCS) criteria -- specifically expanding the number of years smoking -- increases the number of eligible individuals, in particular those in minority racial and ethnic groups, researchers have reported. "[We found that a] well-validated prediction model [identifies] alternative simple criteria that better capture high-benefit candidates for LCS, including … groups who are disproportionately excluded by current eligibility criteria (high-benefit Black peo
Health Imaging
AUGUST 21, 2024
Online access to medical records has become standard practice, making sharing radiology reports and communicating findings much more streamlined.
MedImaging MRI
AUGUST 20, 2024
A new study indicates that combining risk markers, systematic MRI evaluations, and AI can enhance prostate cancer risk prediction, potentially making biopsies unnecessary for men at low risk.
Radiology Business
AUGUST 20, 2024
X.com user "RJ" (who tweets under the handle @northwoods1980) shared his thoughts on the social media website Aug. 16, calling the trend “somewhat unusual.
AuntMinnie
AUGUST 22, 2024
Lung cancer screening (LCS) guidelines should include occupational exposure criteria for people such as firefighters, according to a study published August 20 in Lung. A team led by Savan Shah, MD, of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago reported that, among a cohort of 1,347 firefighters who underwent low-dose CT imaging (LDCT), only 14.6% were eligible for the test according to U.S.
Health Imaging
AUGUST 21, 2024
The commercially available software can correctly exclude pathology on chest radiographs with accuracy rates similar to those of radiologists.
Diagnostic Imaging
AUGUST 19, 2024
From questionable quality with images on CDs to issues with rad group portals, challenges continue to persist with access to imaging.
Radiology Business
AUGUST 23, 2024
“Dr. Gomes and [National Interventional Radiology Partners] clearly prioritized greed above the health and well-being of their elderly patients,” an FBI agent charged.
AuntMinnie
AUGUST 20, 2024
A commercially available AI algorithm shows potential for off-label use as a way to generate automatic reports for “unremarkable” chest x-rays, according to a study published August 20 in Radiology. The finding by researchers in Copenhagen, Denmark, suggests that AI could eventually help streamline high-volume radiology workflows by handling some of the more “tedious parts of the work,” lead author Louis Plesner, MD, of Herlev and Gentofte Hospital in Denmark told AuntMinnie.com.
Health Imaging
AUGUST 22, 2024
The large language model’s medical manuscripts are becoming so well constructed that it can be difficult to distinguish them from those compiled by humans.
Diagnostic Imaging
AUGUST 22, 2024
For patients who had post-op recurrence after a Whipple procedure for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), between 80 to 86 percent of follow-up CT exams revealed new or increased soft tissue.
ScienceDaily
AUGUST 20, 2024
A new fluorescent imaging probe can for the first time objectively and non-invasively measure loss of smell, clinically known as anosmia. Targeting the olfactory nerve, the new tool has potential to eliminate biopsies used to diagnose certain anosmia conditions and to aid in the development of therapeutic interventions.
AuntMinnie
AUGUST 23, 2024
The founder of an interventional radiology practice in Houston has agreed to pay $8.8 million to settle an anti-kickback violation case, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani in an August 20 statement. According to the claim, beginning in 2015, Andrew Gomes , MD, allegedly offered physicians who invested in his clinics returns in dividends if they referred patients for treatment of peripheral arterial disease (PAD).
Radiology Business
AUGUST 23, 2024
OIA recently collaborated with Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist to open a new outpatient location in Greensboro, North Carolina’s 3rd most populous city.
Medical Xpress: Radiology
AUGUST 19, 2024
Automated multiorgan computed tomography (CT), including visceral fat, can predict diabetes and associated cardiometabolic conditions, according to a study published online Aug. 6 in Radiology.
Health Imaging
AUGUST 22, 2024
In 2023, the Society of Abdominal Radiology released its consensus statement regarding follow-up imaging of patients who have had their cancer surgically resected.
AuntMinnie
AUGUST 21, 2024
Three people sustained injuries following an air explosion in the radiology unit of Polokwane Provincial Hospital August 20 in Limpopo, South Africa, according to local news outlet Sunday World. The explosion occurred when the three were decommissioning the MRI scanner, with the injured including two hospital employees and a technician from a private service provider, the report noted.
Radiology Business
AUGUST 19, 2024
This marks the third IR center for U.S. Urology Partners, which is supported by NMS Capital and has 60 locations across the East Coast and Midwest.
Diagnostic Imaging
AUGUST 21, 2024
Adding two key findings from contrast-enhanced ultrasound to a predictive model of mammography, conventional ultrasound and clinicopathological findings led to a 86.1 percent AUROC for predicting the upgrading of ductal carcinoma in situ to invasive breast cancer, according to new research.
Health Imaging
AUGUST 20, 2024
The technique, which takes around 20 minutes to complete, uses ultrasound guidance to target and release Osborne's ligament with a specialized thread.
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