Dear AuntMinnieIndia Member,
Plain radiography may be passé in the age of MRI and multislice CT, but in terms of sheer utility and volume, the x-ray beats all other modalities hands down in developing countries such as India.
AuntMinnieIndia.com contributing writer Ravi Damodaran finds that a single hospital in Chennai does about 250 x-rays daily. Very few of the x-ray patients require further evaluation with MRI or ultrasound, offering a good reason why hospitals should opt for digital x-ray equipment, according to one radiologist in a government hospital.
In sonography news, researchers from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh evaluated the role of power Doppler in monitoring the treatment of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and found some useful results. The study was presented at the 2004 RSNA meeting in Chicago earlier this month, and AuntMinnieIndia.com brings you the findings.
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![Coronal and axial slice of the average cortical F-18 MK-6240 SUVR [standard uptake value ratio] image for each study population. SUVR images were corrected for partial volume effects and masked with the gray matter mask used for volume of interest delineation. Overall tau accumulation is comparable between the late-life depression (LLD, middle column) and non-depressed cognitively unimpaired comparison (HC, left column) groups, while abnormal tau accumulation, which is most pronounced in the mesial temporal lobe, can be seen in the mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease group (right column). Image and caption courtesy of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.](https://img.auntminnie.com/files/base/smg/all/image/2024/07/Tau_depressed.66a16540ee0a1.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fit=crop&h=100&q=70&w=100)
![Coronal and axial slice of the average cortical F-18 MK-6240 SUVR [standard uptake value ratio] image for each study population. SUVR images were corrected for partial volume effects and masked with the gray matter mask used for volume of interest delineation. Overall tau accumulation is comparable between the late-life depression (LLD, middle column) and non-depressed cognitively unimpaired comparison (HC, left column) groups, while abnormal tau accumulation, which is most pronounced in the mesial temporal lobe, can be seen in the mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease group (right column). Image and caption courtesy of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.](https://img.auntminnie.com/files/base/smg/all/image/2024/07/Tau_depressed.66a16540ee0a1.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
