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Ultrasound matches MR for assessing post-op flexor tendon

By Kate Madden Yee

Sunday, November 30 | 1:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. | MKS346 | Lakeside Learning CenterUltrasound and MR are complementary modalities for distinguishing complications -- either rupture or adhesions -- after repair of the digital flexor tendon, according to French researchers.

November 5, 2014

NeoCoil adds to MRI coil offerings

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

NeoCoil has introduced its 16ch Flex Speeder coils for use with Toshiba America Medical Systems' Vantage Titan 3-tesla MR scanners.

November 4, 2014

PET/MRI compares well with PET/CT for pancreatic cancer

By Wayne Forrest

Thursday, December 4 | 11:40 a.m.-11:50 a.m. | SSQ06-08 | Room E350Italian researchers are adding to the evidence that PET/MRI can benefit cancer patients for use in tumor-node-metastasis staging.

November 4, 2014

PET/MRI adds to lung cancer diagnoses

By Wayne Forrest

Wednesday, December 3 | 11:40 a.m.-11:50 a.m. | SSK18-08 | Room S505ABBritish researchers have concluded that PET/MRI appears to be a "robust technique" for preoperative staging of lung cancer patients, offering "significantly lower radiation dose."

November 4, 2014

Researchers make PET/MRI scans more tolerable for young patients

By Wayne Forrest

Wednesday, December 3 | 11:30 a.m.-11:40 a.m. | SSK18-07 | Room S505ABResearchers at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford University School of Medicine have found a way to streamline FDG-PET/MRI scans to make them more tolerable for children with lymphoma and sarcoma.

November 4, 2014

Infants with congenital hyperinsulinism can benefit from PET/MRI

By Wayne Forrest

Wednesday, December 3 | 11:20 a.m.-11:30 a.m. | SSK19-06 | Room S102ABSimultaneous PET/MRI with fluorine-18 dihydroxyphenylalanine matches PET/CT in the preoperative differentiation of congenital hyperinsulinism among pediatric patients -- while delivering less radiation.

November 4, 2014

Time-of-flight PET/MRI could help with a variety of clinical applications

By Wayne Forrest

Wednesday, December 3 | 11:10 a.m.-11:20 a.m. | SSK18-05 | Room S505ABTime-of-flight PET/MRI provided comparable image quality and diagnostic ability to PET/CT in several clinical applications in a study from Stanford University.

November 4, 2014

PET/MRI could benefit NSCLC patients with less radiation, adequate imaging

By Wayne Forrest

Wednesday, December 3 | 10:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | SSK18-02 | Room S505ABWith radiation exposure to patients a constant concern, whole-body staging with PET/MRI could greatly benefit patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to a study from University Hospital Zurich.

November 4, 2014

FDG-PET/MRI, FDG-PET/CT top choices for lymphoma diagnostic workup

By Wayne Forrest

Wednesday, December 3 | 10:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m. | SSK18-01 | Room S505ABFDG-PET/MRI and FDG-PET/CT topped diffusion-weighted MRI in the diagnostic workup of lymphoma patients in this study from Swiss researchers at the University Hospital of Zurich.

November 4, 2014

PET/MRI adds critical information for rectal cancer patients

By Wayne Forrest

Sunday, November 30 | 12:05 p.m.-12:15 p.m. | SSA18-09 | Room S505ABFused PET/MR images can provide a more accurate assessment of local disease extension in rectal cancer patients than FDG-PET/CT and pelvic MRI, according to researchers from Stony Brook University Hospital.

November 4, 2014

PET/MRI provides partial benefit for soft-tissue sarcoma patients

By Wayne Forrest

Sunday, November 30 | 12:05 p.m.-12:15 p.m. | SSA13-09 | Room E451BGerman researchers are lauding the ability of PET/MRI to provide "superior assessment" of therapy based on functional metabolic response, but morphologic information falls short in evaluating therapeutic response in soft-tissue sarcoma patients after isolated limb perfusion.

November 4, 2014

Module teaches grading of lumbar spine degeneration

By Erik L. Ridley

Sunday, November 30 | 12:05 p.m.-12:15 p.m. | SSA11-09 | Room S403AIn this talk, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania will present Centaur, a free, Web-based module that provides instruction on how to grade the degeneration of the lumbar spine on MRI.

November 2, 2014

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