AuntMinnie

MARCH 18, 2025

The ROCR Act, which aims to shift radiation reimbursement from fee-for-service to bundled payments, was reintroduced in Congress on March 14. Were enthusiastic about it, said Chris Corso, MD, PhD, government relations committee vice chair at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). Its also going to save Medicare money.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Most radiologists have heard of Moore’s Law. It was named after Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel. In 1965, he observed that the number of components on a microchip had been doubling every year. He also predicted that this would continue for at least ten years. In 1975, he revised this to every two years. I still don’t know how they did it.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

"Work in our hospital, and especially in our radiology department, has been exceptionally challenging throughout this crisis -- and it continues to be so," Eva Llopis, MD, head of radiology at Hospital Universitari de la Ribera in Alzira, the capital of the comarca of Ribera Alta in the province of Valencia, told AuntMinnie.com on November 5.

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Health Imaging

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

There are numerous radiotracers specifically designed to identify prostate cancer, but experts say one may be superior to the others at both the patient and lesion level.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 3, 2025

"Atrial Fibrillation" produced quite random radiology reports; some gloriously accurate, some gloriously inaccurate, and the rest somewhere in between. A report bearing the name of Dr. AF could be anything. It could be a lengthy work of fantasy only vaguely related to the images or a concise and accurate verbal synopsis of the radiological findings.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The global medical imaging community has paid tribute to Willi Kalender, PhD, the renowned medical physicist who died on October 21 at the age of 75. Willi was a pioneer in every sense of the word. Willi's contribution to modern medicine is huge. It is so important -- it would have been worth a Nobel prize." Father of spiral CT?

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 24, 2025

Specifically, AI supporters are focusing on the lack of current procedural terminology (CPT) codes representing imaging services performed with AI. CPT codes are needed for appropriate insurance reimbursement. New research comes out every week in radiology highlighting the performance and potential AI in assisting diagnosis of various pathologies.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

When it comes to medical imaging, radiology is what most often comes to mind, and for good reason. A large percentage of medical imaging created by most hospitals tends to come from the radiology department. In the U.S. But that often isn’t the case. This link leads to a different folder where the generated image is stored.

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Healthcare Healthcare Imaging Electronic Medical Record 261

AuntMinnie

MARCH 20, 2025

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that Medtronic has recalled its Pipeline Vantage 027 embolization device used to treat brain aneurysms, with 13 injuries and four deaths reported related to it.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 6, 2025

Radiology leaders have looked to education programs to see what drives student interest in the field and how the field can be made to appear more attractive to medical students. The ASRT began conducting its yearly survey of radiologic technology students in 2001. This is a record number since the ASRT began issuing its survey in 2001.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 24, 2025

I thought, why doesnt the ultrasound community have their own society within different states? And I noticed there was nothing really established in Pennsylvania, said association cofounder and president Brenda McMahon. I thought it would be nice to have a stepping stone for people wanting to go the professional route. Aloysius College.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 11, 2025

Its been five years since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in the U.S., and radiology has learned much since then, according to experts who directly dealt with the diseases impact. This was something that healthcare systems in the U.S. Imaging technologists meanwhile were reallocated across the hospital system to assist in various departments.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 14, 2025

For example, the DEXA CPT [i] 77080 was increased from 1.17 RVUs, leaving it with a net 2% fee reduction. Many more procedures suffered cuts that were larger than the CF percentage decrease. Among them is the high-volume single-view chest x-ray 71045 with a net increase of 1.06% due to an RVU value increase of 4%, from 0.25

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine of the Moscow Healthcare Department in Russia is highlighting ultrasound training phantoms it has created, including a fetal phantom, that aims to help sonographers-in-training. It is the tenth model developed by the Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 5, 2024

CHICAGO Philips brought a range of new AI-enhanced offerings to RSNA 2024 aimed at bolstering efficiency and improving workflows for radiologists and radiologic technologists. MRI In MRI, the star of the show was Philips next-generation of its 1.5-tesla tesla BlueSeal MR wide-bore scanner.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 4, 2025

Ultrahigh-spatial-resolution photon-counting detector CT (UHR PCCT) used for coronary CT angiography (CCTA) outperforms conventional energy-integrating detector (EID) CT when it comes to quantifying coronary plaque, researchers have found. Patients underwent CCTA with conventional CT imaging, and then also had a UHR PCCT exam within 30 days.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Now you have many, many thousands, tens of thousands, potentially hundreds of thousands of patients who are amenable to that therapy. And to really optimize it, you would like to be able to deliver it in a personalized manner, he said. and Europe, with more in development.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Middlebrooks' research interest consists of using ultrahigh-field, 7-tesla MRI to plot brain microstructure and develop surgical treatment of brain tumors, epilepsy, and neurodegenerative and movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and dystonia. It was an immediate sense of joy."

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Echosens has launched its liver health management platform globally. The platform enhances the capabilities of the company's FibroScan technology by offering automated result transfers, biological marker-enhanced exams, and interpretation tools, Echosens said.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

If left untreated, the condition can lead to serious and potentially fatal complications. Levothyroxine pills. Image courtesy of RSNA. However, some patients have been taking levothyroxine for many years, even though it is not clear why it was initially prescribed, or even if it is still required, the researchers explained.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

VIENNA Generative AI may have novel applications in the clinic, but using the technology comes with its share of challenges and future directions, according to a presentation given February 26 at ECR 2025. Marc Kohli, MD, discusses current and potential future uses of generative AI in radiology at ECR 2025 in Vienna, Austria.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 5, 2025

Key players recently updated AuntMinnie.com about the initiative, a spin-off of sorts of the DOEs Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) in Tennessee. So, if you do that math, it's about 90,000 millicuries per year that we would expect to be harvesting once our supply chain is at scale, he said. Canada, Australia, and in Europe.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 22, 2025

The American College of Radiology (ACR) updated its LI-RADS Ultrasound Surveillance algorithm in 2024. The latest version incorporates AFP data and a visualization score named VIS-C into management recommendations after nonpositive results. It also identified predictors of VIS-C scoring on follow-up surveillance exams.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 14, 2025

Technology investments: Hospitals are ramping up investments in advanced imaging technology, using innovation as a competitive differentiator to attract patients. Private radiology practices must clearly articulate their value proposition to their hospital partners and build a strong understanding of the competitive landscape they operate in.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 24, 2025

To that end, the group first created a radiolabeled monoclonal antibody PET radiotracer that targets a spike protein on the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In in vitro lab studies over two weeks, the zirconium-89 (Zr-89) COVA1-27-DFO tracer maintained a high affinity for its target, the spike protein, both in the wildtype and delta variants of the virus.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

"This relationship could be a compensatory mechanism where lower lung function is compensated by higher cardiac output and higher brain perfusion. It's also a possibility that the disease mechanism that impairs pulmonary gas exchange also leads to higher brain perfusion through downstream vascular injury in both lung and brain," Staab said.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 17, 2025

In a retrospective analysis that included 293 patients, gallium-68 (Ga-68) DOTA-FAPI-04 uptake was greater than F-18 FDG uptake by both benign bone lesions and metastases, especially for osteoblastic metastasis, noted lead author Rui Guo, MD, of Peking University Cancer Hospital and Institute in China, and colleagues.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

They investigated which breast images could best predict breast density in these models. The team extracted a total of 123 imaging features from the 10 regions of interest of 96 women. After robustness analysis, it employed the most predictive features to build logistic regression-based models.

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Ben White

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Being referred (like signing up through that link) will earn you a $10 bonus after you answer your first two microsurveys. M3 now has three separate very active research companies under its umbrella: M3 Global Research , M-Panels , and All Global Circle. So if you get invited to a survey, then you can generally complete it and get the honoraria.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This disparity is increased by inequities in healthcare access, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Using these two points as the overarching framework -- that the climate emergency affects the globe, but its impacts are not equally distributed -- the authors listed eight priority actions for the global radiology community: Advocate.

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Radiology Nuclear Medicine Education Radiologist 200

AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In a study of about 1.6 million women, researchers led by Jason Semprini, PhD, from Des Moines University in West Des Moines, IA, found reduced mammography rates after the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) updated its breast cancer screening recommendations in 2009. The study included data from 1.6

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Mammogram Communication Public Health IT 278

AuntMinnie

MARCH 26, 2025

Ultimately, most hospitals conducting trials receive doses of these eight radionuclides from upstream radiopharmaceutical production facilities, with U.S. companies such as Terra Power Isotopes and Shine Technologies , for instance, well-positioned to meet increasing demands.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The companies said that the partnership, initiated in 2020, attained several significant milestones in 2024. One noteworthy milestone was expansion: Strategic Radiology quadrupled participation in its network in 2024 with the addition of nine new member practices to its network in 10 months.

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Radiology Imaging IT 241

AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Every business in the country has to evaluate its obligation to comply with the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) by December 31, 2024. The CTA was enacted as part of the Federal Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020, and the regulations became effective on January 1, 2024. More than 20 full-time employees are employed in the U.S.

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Government IT Risk Management Medical 200

AuntMinnie

MARCH 19, 2025

"In [our] study of adults undergoing LCS, screening adherence was associated with increased overall and early-stage lung cancer detection rates [but] adherence decreased annually after baseline screening, suggesting that it is an important LCS quality metric," Kim and colleagues noted. Incident lung cancer diagnosis rates 1.3%

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