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NYU gets NIH grants to study dose, image analytics
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City said it has received two grants totaling $3.5 million from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) earmarked for improvement in global radiology practices.
April 21, 2016
Choosing unwisely: Lung cancer patients get brain scans
By Eric Barnes
Patients with newly diagnosed lung cancer don't need brain scans, but they get them anyway, according to a new study in the April edition of Chest that examined patients diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer as part of the National Lung Screening Trial.
April 21, 2016
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ARRS: CT has replaced radiography for abdominal imaging
By Kate Madden Yee
LOS ANGELES - Over the past 20 years, the use of abdominal imaging among Medicare beneficiaries has changed significantly, with dramatic increases in CT and MR and dramatic decreases in gastrointestinal fluoroscopic and urologic radiographic imaging, according to research presented at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) meeting.
April 19, 2016
AuntMinnie.com CT Insider
By Eric Barnes
April 19, 2016
CCTA falls short in detection of culprit plaque
By Eric Barnes
In a population of myocardial infarction patients spanning 10 years of clinical practice, coronary CT angiography (CCTA) showed only limited ability to detect culprit lesions in the coronary arteries that went on to cause heart attacks -- though its positive predictive value was perfect, researchers concluded.
April 19, 2016
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FDA OK's new generator for Toshiba CT scanner
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared a new 50-kW generator option for the Aquilion Lightning CT scanner from Toshiba America Medical Systems.
April 17, 2016
CAD finds most lung cancers undetected on CT
By Eric Barnes
Computer-aided detection (CAD) finds most cancers that were missed in CT lung cancer screening, according to a new study in Radiology. CAD can enhance the value of CT screening by finding these cancers in time to remove them surgically.
April 13, 2016
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Median to highlight study results at AACR meeting
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging software developer Median Technologies plans to highlight results of a study on the use of CT to monitor hepatocellular carcinoma lesions at the upcoming American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting in New Orleans.
April 12, 2016
Imaging holds key in war on drug mules
By Frances Rylands-Monk
Novel means of concealment used by traffickers, plus the growing frequency of transporting liquids, pose major challenges for radiologists involved in the detection of illicit drugs, according to researchers from Turkey.
April 12, 2016
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MRI shows brain damage in NFL players; US contrast approval; CT and Zika
By Brian Casey
April 11, 2016
CCTA halves adverse events in SCOT-HEART trial
By Eric Barnes
A trial comparing the use of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) to standard care alone in more than 4,000 chest pain patients revealed sharply reduced event rates and fewer negative angiographies when CCTA was used to guide patient management, according to results published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
April 10, 2016
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CT reveals findings in Zika-related microcephaly
By Eric Barnes
Researchers in Brazil reported the appearance on CT scans of brain anomalies caused by the Zika virus in a letter to the editor published online April 6 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
April 10, 2016
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