AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Ultrasound’s versatility is once again on display at RSNA 2024, with researchers showcasing the modality’s ability to be on par with CT and MRI for guiding diagnosis and treatment strategies in some clinical scenarios. or “Can ultrasound be a suitable alternative to MRI for breast imaging?” And let’s not forget about AI.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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. Studies will also evaluate ways to further improve the modality's capabilities by reassessing the physics side of ultrasound, such as attenuation and echogenicity, as well as the use of interferometry.

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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

MARCH 3, 2025

MRI and ultrasound have tradeoffs in diagnosing peripheral neuropathies of the upper extremity, a study published March 4 in Radiology found.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Focused ultrasound could help ease pain by manipulating the area of the brain that registers pain, a proof-of-principle study published February 1 in Pain found. Low-intensity focused ultrasound is one such method, which nondestructively and reversibly changes brain activity with high spatial resolution and adjustable depth of focus.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 5, 2023

An AI assistance system can aid novice sonographers in assessing the rotator cuff, a study published December 1 in Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology found. While ultrasound is a go-to method for assessing shoulder joint diseases, it is a user-dependent modality. in the test set. This indicates robustness and accuracy, they noted.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The top three imaging modalities where predictive maintenance features are most important for CT, indicated by 83% of respondents, MRI by 72%, and ultrasound by 44%, respectively. In relation to location type, urban sites have the highest rating at 5.3/7, 7, while rural sites have the lowest at 4.3/7,

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Health Imaging

MARCH 27, 2024

The MRI-guided transurethral ultrasound ablation comes with minimal side effects, offering cancer patients an alternative to radiation or surgery.

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Radiology Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Gaps in coverage result in individuals paying anywhere from $234 for a follow-up diagnostic mammogram to over $1,000 for a breast MRI, Komen estimates.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 6, 2024

Supplemental breast ultrasound may have utility in imaging women with dense breasts and high risk of advanced or invasive breast cancer, a study published August 6 in Radiology found. Sample images show cancer detection at supplemental ultrasound screening after screening mammography with a negative result. (A)

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 12, 2024

With federal and state-level legislation mandating insurance coverage for supplemental breast imaging and providers disclosing breast density information to patients, it seems like ultrasound would have an immediate and important role in this area.

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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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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Ultrasound contrast agents show promise for detecting and evaluating uterine disorders and prostate cancers, according to research presented at the annual Advances in Contrast Ultrasound meeting in Chicago. He recommended that sonographers be trained to place IVs and administer the ultrasound agent.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 4, 2024

MRI helps clinicians assess the neural involvement in endometriosis and could help them prevent irreversible nerve damage and chronic sensorimotor neuropathy in women suffering from the condition, Cleveland Clinic researchers have reported. The team's review of MRI's role for this indication was published January 3 in RadioGraphics.

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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. The baby died.

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Health Imaging

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Scientists from the Huntsman Cancer Institute developed a noninvasive outpatient procedure to treat breast cancer tumors.

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Radiology Business

JUNE 12, 2024

Those involved want lawmakers to pass three already-proposed bills aimed at improving access to breast MRI, ultrasound and other services.

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Radiology Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

“CT scan” was the third most-searched term among healthcare consumers, and “ultrasound” was No. 4, according to Fair Health.

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Health Imaging

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Research out of China found that the pairing proved to be more accurate in identifying cancer in nonmass-like lesions.

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Radiology Business

JULY 19, 2024

Plus, Hologic expected to generate $800M in free cash flow, full-body MRI startup raises $27M, and the FDA clears solutions from Hyperfine, Subtle Medical and Positrigo.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 22, 2024

Which modality is better for breast cancer diagnosis, contrast-enhanced mammography or dynamic contrast-enhanced breast MRI? Ultrasound offers another screening tool and can overcome some of mammography's limitations. Dynamic contrast-enhanced breast MRI has been available since 1984, while CEM was introduced in 2011.

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Health Imaging

MAY 9, 2024

A team of experts determined that correlating masses initially detected on MRI are significantly more likely to result in a cancer diagnosis than other common findings.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 7, 2024

AUSTIN, TX – Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) isn’t typically used for imaging the pancreas, but perhaps that should change, according to a presentation given April 7 at UltraCon. Alice Lee, MD, from Stanford University presents research on the feasibility and performance of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) at UltraCon. In the U.S.,

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 25, 2023

Although MRI and ultrasound are both useful in diagnostic workup of brachia. Read more on AuntMinnie.com Related Reading: Ultrasound noninferior to scintigraphy in surgical thyroid imaging Is axillary scanning needed in diagnostic breast ultrasound?

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Health Imaging

JANUARY 9, 2025

Ultrasound is routinely used to screen for HCC. However, its utility is limited by numerous factors, including patient body habitus, operator experience and certain liver conditions, all of which contribute to decreases in sensitivity.

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Diagnostic Imaging

AUGUST 7, 2024

External validation testing revealed a deep learning combination of breast MRI, ultrasound and clinical factors had a 10 percent higher AUC for predicting axillary lymph node metastasis than sole use of MRI- or ultrasound-based deep learning models in patients with breast cancer.

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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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AuntMinnie

APRIL 11, 2024

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) can improve locoregional therapy for treating metastatic disease of the liver, according to early study results presented April 10 at UltraCon. When we add the ultrasound-triggered microbubble destruction, we’re increasing the tumor cell death, hopefully sensitizing these tumors,” Wessner said.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

A newly developed contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) Vesical Imaging-Reporting and Data System (VI-RADS) helps both novice and expert readers to evaluate muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC), researchers reported September 10 in Radiology. In the training set, nine features associated with MIBC at ultrasound and CEUS were identified.

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Radiology Business

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Age, race, whether they underwent MRI or ultrasound, insurance coverage, and other factors correlated with patients no-showing following a BI-RADS 3 designation.

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Radiology Business

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Consider: The past 10 to 15 years have seen the rise of digital breast tomosynthesis, automated breast ultrasound, breast MRI (with and without diffusion weighting), low-dose positron emission mammography and contrast-enhanced dual-energy digital mammography. That’s just to name a few.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 2, 2024

tesla MRI AI body composition analysis Cardiac PET Cryo/thermoablation CT colonography Genicular artery embolization Hyperpolarized xenon-129 MRI PET/MRI Photon-counting CT Radiomics Theranostics Whole-body MRI screening Image of the Year 3D PET/MR image. tesla brain MRI scans. tesla brain MRI scans.

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Diagnostic Imaging

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Follow-up MRI imaging one year after transurethral ultrasound ablation revealed approximately 50 percent decreases in prostate volume and median PSA density, according to recently presented research findings at the 2023 Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO) Annual Meeting.

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Diagnostic Imaging

JANUARY 4, 2024

In a recent proof-of-concept trial assessing the combination of aducanumab infusion with MRI-guided focused ultrasound to open the blood-brain barrier, researchers found significant reductions in amyloid-beta load at 26 weeks in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 29, 2024

In an effort to evaluate the appropriateness and outcomes of ultrasound, CT, and MR exams ordered for adult ED patients at a tertiary care urban academic center, the researchers retrospectively reviewed consecutive orders from January to March 2019. of ultrasounds, 29.1% of ultrasound orders, 61.4% of ultrasound orders, 61.4%

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

S3A-SPBR-7 | Learning Center Compared with ultrasound or MRI used alone to diagnose breast diseases, a combined model of both modalities based on radiomics more accurately identifies breast conditions, according to a poster to be displayed Sunday morning. Sunday, December 1 | 11:45 a.m.-12:15 12:15 p.m. |

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 31, 2025

Diagnostic radiology MRI Safety A new CPT subsection has been established for reporting six new codes describing MR safety services, including implant or foreign body evaluation, safety consultation, electronics preparation, and implant positioning or immobilization. 76015 Add-on Each additional 30 minutes G - 1.59 $51.43 48.96 $1,583.68

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