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Road to RSNA 2023: Ultrasound

AuntMinnie

Ultrasound's utility will be on full display at this year's RSNA annual meeting, showing its merit in a wide variety of clinical applications. Research to be presented at the annual meeting in Chicago will explore the modality's clinical applications in musculoskeletal, pediatric, abdominal, and women's imaging among other areas.

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Road to RSNA 2024: Ultrasound Preview

AuntMinnie

Studies to be presented in Chicago will explore ultrasound’s clinical applications in musculoskeletal, pediatric, abdominal, and women's imaging among other applications. Furthermore, ultrasound's use as a supplemental tool will be explored, including for breast cancer detection and follow-up imaging. 1:30 p.m. |

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A Physician, a Patient and a Technology Whose Time Is Now

Radiology Business

If certainty is the holy grail of diagnostic breast imaging, then opto-acoustic ultrasound is the treasure map showing exactly where to find it.

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Is CEM or breast MRI better for breast cancer diagnosis?

AuntMinnie

Mammography is the traditional modality for both screening for breast cancer and follow-up of suspicious results, but it has its limits, notably less ability to identify cancer in dense breast tissue. Ultrasound offers another screening tool and can overcome some of mammography's limitations. Breast MRI does not impart radiation.

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Low-dose PEM shows promise in breast cancer detection

AuntMinnie

PEM is one molecular breast imaging method that has shown promise in lowering the number of false-positive cases, owing to its superior specificity over MRI. However, PEM’s higher radiation dose has steered radiologists away from using the modality. A) Craniocaudal mammogram of the right breast does not show any lesion. (B)

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Seno Medical's Imagio System Receives Innovative Technology Contract

Imaging Technology

The result is a diagnostic imaging modality that delivers functional information regarding suspicious breast masses, increasing confidence regarding the need for invasive breast cancer diagnostic biopsies. Seno’s Imagio OA/US technology combines light, sound, and AI to deliver new information never before available.

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AuntMinnie 2014: Health information exchange lowers repeat emergency imaging

AuntMinnie

Adopting health information exchange (HIE) between unaffiliated healthcare providers leads to significant decreases in repeat imaging studies in emergency departments (EDs) and could potentially save millions of dollars, according to a large study from the University of Michigan. of ultrasound cases), and 29,073 repeat chest x-rays (19.5%

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