AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 20, 2024

MRI safety also remains a hot-button issue. MRI shows ties between ovary removal and brain function later in life A Wake Forest University study showed a concerning trend in women who underwent ovary removal by premenopausal bilateral oophorectomy (PBO) and used conjugated equine estrogens.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A commercially available deep-learning (DL) algorithm can enable good quality seven-minute shoulder MRI exams, according to research published February 18 in Radiology. Seven radiologists evaluated the MRI scan quality and the presence of artifacts using a Likert scale ranging from 1 (very bad/severe) to 5 (very good/absent).

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Using AI with mammography can help select women at high risk of breast cancer for supplemental MRI, according to research published February 4 in Radiology. However, access to MRI can be limited for some women. E) Concurrent axial subtraction MRI scan shows a large, diffuse, invasive lobular cancer (circle) in the right breast. (E)

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 19, 2025

MRI has identified parts of the brain needed to remember words -- and how those parts may be affected by epilepsy, according to a study published March 19 in Brain Communications.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In 2024, the percentage of MRI procedures performed in an outpatient setting decreased five percentage points to 66% of total MR procedures, according to the newly published IMV 2024 MR Market Outlook Report. Davin Korstjens of IMV Medical Information Division. Over the weekend, independent imaging centers are open for 7.8 The takeaway?

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its AI-powered Subtle-HD MRI acceleration and enhancement software. The SubtleELITE suite is compatible with all MRI scanners, the company said.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 28, 2024

MRI safety articles have always been popular with our members, so it’s not surprising that our top article in 2019 reported on a safety incident in Sweden. The police investigation into last Wednesday's accident at a mobile MRI unit in Swedish Lapland is underway and likely to take several weeks.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Using an AI tool with brain MRI in children finds 64% of focal cortical dysplasias (FCDs) -- abnormalities linked to epilepsy -- that radiologists miss, researchers have reported. in MRI-negative patients with FCD. The study was published February 24 in JAMA Neurology. in patients who were seizure-free a year after surgery and 63.7%

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

MRI offers excellent soft tissue contrast, making it well-suited for visualizing and quantifying different body compartments and tissues regarding their quality and quantity," the group noted. "T2-weighted The results were published February 19 in Investigative Radiology.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The study results suggest that the model, called TotalSegmentator MRI, could improve radiology department workload, said senior author Jakob Wasserthal, PhD, of University Hospital Basel in Switzerland. To this end, D'Antonoli and colleagues built TotalSegmentator MRI, which they based on nnU-Net. for 13 anatomic structures).

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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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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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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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AuntMinnie

MARCH 12, 2025

"Standard clinical practice has shifted from conducting systematic prostate biopsies without MRI guidance to using MRI-guided biopsies," the team wrote. A majority (179) of participants underwent multiparametric MRI, the authors noted.

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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

JANUARY 16, 2025

Powered by the Oxford, England-based company's cortical disarray measurement technology, CDM Insights allows for clinical assessment of the brain's microstructures via MRI scans. It processes clinical MRI scan data from both 1.5-tesla Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It will also provide macrostructural measures.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

The unnamed woman had concealed the weapon, which the MRI machine triggered to fire during an exam.

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ScienceDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Another option is to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to search for signs of a tumor before deciding whether a biopsy is necessary, reserving biopsies only for cases where abnormalities are detected. Researchers at conducted a study to determine whether this MRI-first approach is safe over the long term.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 6, 2025

Postoperative MRI surveillance appears to lower the odds of advanced second breast cancer in women with a personal history of the disease, researchers have reported. "In Images in a 40-year-old woman who underwent breast-conserving surgery for left breast cancer and a surveillance breast MRI examination 25 months after surgery. (A)

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 28, 2025

To better assess the current landscape and challenges of AI applications in cardiac CT and MRI specifically, the paper aims to bridge the gap between burgeoning research developments and limited clinical applications, according to lead author Domenico Mastrodicasa, MD, from the University of Washington in Seattle, and colleagues.

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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." President Emmanuel Macron has congratulated the researchers on social media.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 3, 2024

A team led by Yin Ting Chiu, PhD, from the Hong Kong Children’s Hospital discussed key factors identified by the hospital’s MR team for effectively performing supplementary MRI scans on children ages three to seven without sedation. Performing MRI scans on young children can be challenging for radiologists.

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Health Imaging

MAY 6, 2024

This week at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine’s annual meeting, a team of experts presented new data on the technologist’s role in MRI safety events.

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Radiology Business

MARCH 13, 2025

The French company offers solutions across X-ray, mammography and CT, adding MRI to its portfolio by buying Pixyl and Caerus Medical.

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Health Imaging

AUGUST 30, 2024

The less control a person has over their diabetes, the greater the difference between chronological age and estimated brain age based on MRI markers, according to the study.

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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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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Modalities ranging from ultrasound and MRI to molecular breast imaging and contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) will have their time in the spotlight. Research will also showcase the latest advancements in OB/GYN imaging, such as radiogenomics for evaluating endometrial cancer features and fetal MRI to measure fetal cerebral blood flow.

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Health Imaging

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Researchers have used 7T MRI to demonstrate that former COVID-19 inpatients are susceptible to persistent brainstem abnormalities associated with long-haul COVID symptoms.

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Health Imaging

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The new recall, which includes more than 155,000 implantable pulse generators , is due to ongoing issues with the devices being unable to exit MRI mode and return to normal use.

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Health Imaging

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

MRI exams are crucial for investigating fetal abnormalities, but past concerns have been expressed about whether the modality could affect intrauterine growth.

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Imaging Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The eco-friendly design of the BlueSeal MRI with helium-free operations, makes it the lightest 1.5T 70cm MRI system available today [4]. We have installed more than 1,500 BlueSeal systems globally in wide-ranging settings including the world’s first helium-free mobile MRI units.

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Health Imaging

APRIL 22, 2024

The course’s release follows a slew of reported MRI accidents that have occurred in recent years, many that resulted in severe injury and some that were even fatal.

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Health Imaging

MAY 2, 2024

Houston, Texas-based United Imaging announced the clearance of its uMR Jupiter 5T MRI system, the first to offer an 8-channel whole-body multi-transmit system.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 26, 2024

Using digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) and supplemental MRI yields more benefits but also confers more risks, according to simulation data published August 26 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Adding MRI to biennial DBT screening for women aged 50 to 74 years and with extremely dense breasts increased the number of deaths averted to 7.6,

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Connecticut-based company Hyperfine has secured CE marking under the European Medical Device Regulation for its Swoop portable brain MRI system. The company in 2023 secured initial CE certification for the Swoop system. Hyperfine said this latest approval will help position the company to launch the system broadly across Europe.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 20, 2025

Researchers have reported the successful use of a 7-tesla MRI technique that identifies microscopic differences in patients' brains that cause drug-resistant epilepsy, or "focal epilepsy." But even though 7-tesla MRI has benefits over 3-tesla, it can still be limited by the signal dropouts.

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