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Emergency departments continue to drive CT use
By Eric Barnes
Bucking an overall downward trend in utilization of advanced imaging services, emergency departments are still seeing growth in imaging, especially in CT use, which has tripled over the past decade, according to a new article in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
November 10, 2014
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CMS says yes to CT lung cancer screening for seniors
By Eric Barnes
Bucking a negative assessment from its own appointed review panel, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Monday approved CT lung cancer screening for Medicare recipients, saying the evidence is sufficient to justify screening high-risk individuals until the age of 74 years.
November 9, 2014
Metal artifact reduction algorithms vary by vendor
By Erik L. Ridley
Thursday, December 4 | 11:20 a.m.-11:30 a.m. | SSQ17-06 | Room S403BIn this Thursday morning session, Dutch researchers will share results from performance testing of various CT metal artifact reduction methods.
November 9, 2014
Plaque analysis predicts stroke risk in carotid stenosis
By Erik L. Ridley
Wednesday, December 3 | 3:30 p.m.-3:40 p.m. | SSM25-04 | Room E450BIn this study, researchers from the Ochsner Clinic found that the soft lipid component of carotid plaque is an important predictor of stroke risk in patients with carotid stenosis.
November 9, 2014
CT texture analysis IDs non-small cell lung cancer subtypes
By Erik L. Ridley
Wednesday, December 3 | 3:00 p.m.-3:10 p.m. | SSM06-01 | Room S404CDA group from Massachusetts General Hospital will highlight the potential for CT texture analysis to identify histological subtypes of non-small cell lung cancer.
November 9, 2014
CT texture analysis can assess hepatic fibrosis
By Erik L. Ridley
Wednesday, December 3 | 11:10 a.m.-11:20 a.m. | SSK07-05 | Room E350A group from Boston University Medical Center will discuss the benefits of using texture analysis to noninvasively evaluate hepatic fibrosis on noncontrast-enhanced CT scans.
November 9, 2014
Software assesses image quality via quantitative analysis
By Erik L. Ridley
Tuesday, December 2 | 11:40 a.m.-11:50 a.m. | SSG14-08 | Room S403BIn this talk, German researchers will describe how their semiautomated analysis software can quantitatively assess the quality of CT images.
November 9, 2014
CT texture analysis helps characterize lung lesions
By Erik L. Ridley
Tuesday, December 2 | 11:10 a.m.-11:20 a.m. | SSG07-05 | Room S402ABResearchers from Massachusetts General Hospital have found that texture analysis of CT images can help differentiate malignant and benign lung lesions.
November 9, 2014
Quantification of donor kidney volume predicts outcome
By Erik L. Ridley
Tuesday, December 2 | 11:00 a.m.-11:10 a.m. | SSG07-04 | Room S402ABIn this presentation, researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College will show how quantification of a donor's kidney volume offers insight into whether a kidney transplant will succeed.
November 9, 2014
CT texture analysis may help classify renal lesions
By Erik L. Ridley
Tuesday, December 2 | 10:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m. | SSG07-01 | Room S402ABA team from Johns Hopkins University will explore the potential of texture analysis to assist in the classification of renal lesions on CT scans.
November 9, 2014
Lung analytics tool aids in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy
By Erik L. Ridley
Tuesday, December 2 | 8:45 a.m.-8:55 a.m. | VSCH31-02 | Room S405ABA group from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, has developed lung analysis software for analyzing parenchymal involvement in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy.
November 9, 2014
CAD targets often-overlooked large pulmonary nodules
By Erik L. Ridley
Monday, December 1 | 3:50 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | SSE22-06 | Room S403BIn this paper presentation, Dutch researchers will describe their computer-aided detection (CAD) software for detecting large pulmonary nodules.
November 9, 2014
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