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Global helium market expands

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

An increase in the helium supply is helping to relieve recent shortages of the essential gas and is fueling growth in the global market. Helium is used to cool MRI scanners, among other applications.

November 8, 2016

Study reveals global preoperative breast MRI utilization

By Wayne Forrest

Thursday, December 1 | 11:50 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | SSQ01-09 | Room E450AHow do physicians use preoperative breast MRI scans for women with newly diagnosed cancer, and how effective is the modality in directing patients to the most appropriate treatment? This Thursday session will shed some light on these questions.

November 8, 2016

In the era of DBT, is breast MRI necessary?

By Kate Madden Yee

Tuesday, November 29 | 11:50 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | SSG01-09 | Room E451AIs supplemental breast MRI screening necessary for women at high risk who have been imaged with digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT)? Yes, according to researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital.

November 8, 2016

Dutch researchers add TWIST to breast MRI

By Wayne Forrest

Tuesday, November 29 | 9:10 a.m.-9:20 a.m. | RC315-04 | Arie Crown TheaterDutch researchers may have found a way to make breast cancer screening less expensive and time-consuming through an ultrafast dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI sequence known as time-resolved angiography with stochastic trajectories (TWIST).

November 8, 2016

Study links MRI biomarkers with breast cancer prognosis

By Wayne Forrest

Monday, November 28 | 10:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | SSC08-02 | Room S402ABCertain MRI biomarkers may provide an early prediction of how a breast cancer patient will respond to the first cycle of neoadjuvant chemotherapy, and they may help determine whether additional treatment is necessary, according to a new study.

November 8, 2016

Calif. breast density law upped MRI screening rates

By Kate Madden Yee

Sunday, November 27 | 1:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. | BR225-SD-SUB5 | Lakeside, BR Community, Station 5Since California passed its breast density notification law in 2013, the use of screening breast MRI has more than doubled, researchers from the University of California, Davis have found.

November 8, 2016

Skip mammography if patient's screened with breast MRI

By Kate Madden Yee

Sunday, November 27 | 11:05 a.m.-11:15 a.m. | SSA01-03 | Arie Crown TheaterResearchers in the Netherlands have found that women at higher risk for breast cancer who are regularly screened with breast MRI don't need to also be screened with mammography.

November 8, 2016

fMRI beats polygraph test in detecting lies

By Wayne Forrest

The next time you think someone is telling a lie, give them a functional MRI (fMRI) scan instead of a polygraph test. Researchers found that fMRI experts were 24% more likely to detect a deception on fMRI than polygraph examiners were using polygraphy.

November 6, 2016

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Ala. group gets grant to boost 3T imaging

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Can a 3-tesla MRI scanner be made to perform as well as a more expensive 7-tesla scanner for imaging the hippocampus in epilepsy patients? That's what researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Auburn University are looking to find out.

November 3, 2016

MRI Interventions' loss grows in Q3

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

MRI Interventions has reported higher revenues but a larger net loss for the third quarter of 2016.

November 3, 2016

Road to RSNA 2016: MRI Preview

By Wayne Forrest

Once again at this year's annual meeting of RSNA, researchers and clinicians will offer a myriad of studies and poster presentations to show how they are continually tweaking, expanding, and experimenting with MRI to explore beyond current clinical boundaries.

November 2, 2016

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Study reveals global preoperative breast MRI utilization

By Wayne Forrest

Thursday, December 1 | 11:50 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | SSQ01-09 | Room E450AHow do physicians use preoperative breast MRI scans for women with newly diagnosed cancer, and how effective is the modality in directing patients to the most appropriate treatment? This Thursday session will shed some light on these questions.

November 2, 2016

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