Imaging Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The scanner incorporates Philips’ unique Smart Reading technology, a cloud-based AI toolset that integrates imaging and reading on the MR scanner. The eco-friendly design of the BlueSeal MRI with helium-free operations, makes it the lightest 1.5T 70cm MRI system available today [4].

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 25, 2024

MRI radiomics features can differentiate breast cancers based on human epidermal growth factor receptors (HERs), according to research published January 24 in the American Journal of Roentgenology. Previous studies have explored the potential MRI radiomics models in identifying breast cancer HER2 expression status. Sensitivity 99.4%

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

MRI has come a long way since one of its earliest iterations was used to image humans in the 1970s. It has also improved the diagnosis of cancer, played a leading role in identifying musculoskeletal injuries, and added value as an adjunctive breast imaging modality. 12:15 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. |

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Cranial ultrasound could have utility in imaging infants with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), suggest findings published November 6 in Pediatric Neurology. Access to brain MRI is increasing in high-income countries, putting cranial ultrasound on the back burner for neuroimaging.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Researchers using quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) MRI have discovered evidence of the long-term effects of severe COVID-19 on the brain. reported brain imaging findings on MRI in COVID-19 survivors who had been hospitalized. But brainstem involvement identified on MRI after COVID-19 recovery has remained inconclusive.

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Diagnostic Imaging

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In contrast to high-school athletes from non-contact sports, adolescent football players had a variety of brain changes, including numerous areas of cortical thinning, increased sulcal depth and decreased coherence of neural signals in the frontal and medial regions, according to newly published magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) research.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 5, 2024

MRI safety oversight is spotty at best, with gaps "big enough to drive a truck through," according to Tobias Gilk, founder of Gilk Radiology Consultants in Overland Park, KS, and senior vice president of Radiology-Planning in Mission, KS. MRI bed gurney accident, Kaiser Permanente Redwood City, CA. Image courtesy of Tobias Gilk.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 8, 2024

SINGAPORE -- Auntminnie.com spoke with ultrahigh-field MRI expert Nicolas Boulant, PhD, of the NeuroSpin research center near Paris, at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) annual meeting. tesla MRI – to date, the highest magnetic field MRI used in humans, he said. The ‘good’ is simple.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Functional MR (fMRI) imaging shows structural and functional alterations in the brains of people with opioid use disorder, according to a team of researchers from Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT. The study results could improve treatment for those who suffer from opioid use disorder, wrote a team led by Saloni Mehta, MBBS.

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Diagnostic Imaging

MAY 2, 2024

In addition to enhanced resolution, the uMR Jupiter 5T device reportedly addresses image uniformity and radiofrequency safety that have been previous challenges with ultra-high-field MRI.

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Vesta Teleradiology

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved new MRI standards introduced by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC), focusing on remote scanning and portable imaging technologies. These updates, effective immediately, aim to enhance patient safety and adapt to advancements in MRI practices.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 4, 2024

A research group based in Saclay, near Paris, has taken the wraps off what it claims are the world's first MRI scans of the human brain in vivo taken at a field strength of 11.7 Such images would require hours to obtain with conventional MRI systems." All images courtesy of CEA. Sagittal view of the brain at 11.7

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AuntMinnie

MAY 22, 2024

Abbreviated MRI may be suitable for screening women with dense breasts, a study published May 22 in the American Journal of Roentgenology found. Radiologists and ordering clinicians, alike, may use these results as evidence of the value of abbreviated MRI beyond the first round of screening in this population," Edmonds told AuntMinnie.com.

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Diagnostic Imaging

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The addition of parameters such as patient age, MIP sign and associated imaging features to the Kaiser score demonstrated a 95.6 percent AUC for breast cancer detection of enhancing lesions on breast MRI in recently published research.

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Diagnostic Imaging

APRIL 24, 2024

One of the recommendations from the European Society of Breast Imaging (EUSOBI) is annual breast MRI exams starting at 25 years of age for women deemed to be at high risk for breast cancer.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

MRI shows that vaping has immediate negative effects on vascular function, according to research to be presented at the upcoming RSNA meeting. And to measure blood flow in the brain, they used phase-contrast MRI. The double-blinded study included 31 healthy tobacco smokers and vapers ranging in age from 21 to 49 years.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 3, 2024

Communication and engagement with child-life specialists are a couple of factors in successful MR imaging for young children, according to research presented May 4 at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) meeting in Singapore. Performing MRI scans on young children can be challenging for radiologists.

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Diagnostic Imaging

MAY 28, 2024

Developed by an extended prostate cancer working group of the European Society of Urogenital Radiology (ESUR), the updated PI-QUAL scoring system emphasizes a simplified scale of image parameters that applies to prostate MRI scans with and without intravenous contrast use.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Women’s imaging at this year’s RSNA reflects momentous changes in trends regarding personalized, targeted healthcare in 2024 for women’s health. Research efforts toward supplemental breast imaging have ramped up in recent years and in Chicago, attendees can see results from these imaging modalities being put to the test.

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

MAY 9, 2024

A magnetic resonance imaging device built with off-the-shelf parts and paired with AI matched the performance of high-end MRI machines, according to a study published Thursday that could pave the way for greater access to the life-saving tools.

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Diagnostic Imaging

DECEMBER 14, 2023

discussed emerging research, presented at the recent RSNA conference, that shows the capability of diffusion microstructural imaging to differentiate subtle shifts in microstructural gray matter associated with common symptomatology of long Covid. In a recent interview, Alexander Rau, M.D.,

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 3, 2024

CHICAGO -- MRI has shown that skeletal muscle loss (i.e., The findings suggest that brain MR imaging that quantifies sarcopenia via an assessment of the temporalis muscle could serve as a way to predict future incidence of dementia, according to a group led by Kamyar Moradi, MD, of Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, MD.

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Health Imaging

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

E-cigarettes, or vapes, are largely considered a safer alternative to smoking tobacco cigarettes, but new MRI data suggests they still pose significant risks to users’ health.

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Diagnostic Imaging

APRIL 1, 2024

In a new literature review, researchers noted key findings on the use of breast MRI in facilitating breast cancer detection for women with dense breasts and others at high-risk for breast cancer.

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

A novel artificial intelligence approach can generate 3D brain MRI images using semantic segmentation masks, offering a breakthrough in medical image synthesis and privacy protection.

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Diagnostic Imaging

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In a recent interview at the RSNA conference, Shadpour Demehri, MD and Kamyar Moradi, MD discussed new brain MRI research findings that demonstrated a link between increased dementia risk and sarcopenia with the temporalis muscle.

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Diagnostic Imaging

MARCH 11, 2024

In a study of patients who had lumbar spine MRI exams at 0.55T, 1.5T and 3T, researchers found that 0.55T MRI provided acceptable diagnostic quality across all sequences for varying pathologies including degenerative joint disease, compression fractures and osseous metastatic disease.

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Imaging Technology

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted icometrix clearance for icobrain aria, the first AI software approved for detecting, measuring and grading amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA), a potentially harmful side effect of new amyloid-targeting therapies. Example of how ARIA can present itself on a brain MRI scan.

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Diagnostic Imaging

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Utilizing a deep learning-based AI algorithm to differentiate between diagnostic and non-diagnostic quality of prostate MRI facilitated a 10 percent higher specificity rate for diagnosing extraprostatic extension on multiparametric MRI, according to research presented at the recent RSNA conference.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It's better to take Prostate Imaging-Reporting and Data System (PI-RADS) upgrading rules into account when it comes to deciding whether a patient with clinically significant prostate cancer needs a biopsy, researchers have reported. "[Our] no biopsy for PI-RADS equal to or less than 2) A risk-based pathway (i.e.,

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Imaging Technology

JULY 16, 2024

mtaschetta-millane Tue, 07/16/2024 - 09:41 July 16, 2024 — Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation , a leading provider of diagnostic and enterprise imaging solutions, announces the U.S. MRI system. Relying on renowned Fujifilm permanent magnet technology, the new MRI system boasts a unique single-pillar design.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 13, 2024

The use of breast MRI has increased 14-fold since the American College of Radiology (ACR) changed its guidelines in 2018, a study presented May 7 at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting found. Also, women with both dense breasts and a known genetic mutation had the largest MRI uptake of any risk cohort.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Lung MRI developer Polarean Imaging has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its MRI chest coil to be used with GE HealthCare's (GEHC) 3-tesla (3T) MRI scanners to visualize xenon-129 nuclei.

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Health Imaging

JULY 18, 2024

A neurosurgeon is cautioning patients to check the material makeup of their clothes before donning them during an MRI exam.

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Diagnostic Imaging

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In newly published guidelines, researchers discuss the utility of CT, MRI and PET/CT in the diagnosis, staging, treatment monitoring and follow-up imaging for peritoneal metastases in patients with ovarian or colorectal cancer.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 5, 2024

Cornelia Laule, PhD SINGAPORE – Quantitative MRI techniques offer valuable insights into diverse pathological processes underlying multiple sclerosis (MS), with these techniques poised for clinical use, according to a leading expert. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS).

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Diagnostic Imaging

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In one of the study periods from recently published research on rectal MRI acquisition, researchers found that 39.7 percent of rectal MRI exams adhered to guidelines from the Society of Abdominal Radiology (SAR) and only 6.8 percent followed guidelines from the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR).

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