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Natural language processor autogenerates standardized knee MRI reports
By Cynthia E. Keen
Tuesday, November 30 | 11:00 a.m.-11:10 a.m. | SSG08-04 | Room S402ABIn this presentation, a research team from Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, CA, will describe how they developed and validated a natural language processor that identifies semantic content in knee MRI statements from unstructured text and automatically generates full, structured knee MRI reports.
November 17, 2010
Breast MRI improves survival rates for at-risk women
By Kate Madden Yee
Breast MRI's sensitivity is superior to that of mammography in long-term screening for women at risk of breast cancer, according to a new study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. What's more, the study showed that breast MRI improved survival rates by almost 20% when compared to women tracked in earlier research.
November 16, 2010
Survey finds lack of radiation awareness among radiology professionals
By Wayne Forrest
Wednesday, December 1 | 11:40 a.m.-11:50 a.m. | SSK08-08 | Room S102DHow many radiology professionals believe that MRI and ultrasound use ionizing radiation? A worldwide poll of radiology professionals found that 13% believe ionizing radiation is used in MRI scans, while 15% say ionizing radiation is used in ultrasound.
November 16, 2010
Gadolinium contrast for MRI is safe
By Kate Madden Yee
Tuesday, November 30 | 11:50 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | SSG07-09 | Room S102DUsing gadolinium-based contrast agents with enhanced MRI studies is safe, according to researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College and Columbia University in New York City.
November 16, 2010
One-third of delayed diagnoses not recognized on subsequent exams
By Kate Madden Yee
Tuesday, November 30 | 11:30 a.m.-11:40 a.m. | SSG07-07 | Room S102DDelayed diagnoses in radiology are often not recognized on subsequent radiological examinations, due to multiple types of diagnostic errors, according to researchers from Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio and Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu.
November 16, 2010
Open MRI doesn't necessarily reduce claustrophobia
By Kate Madden Yee
Tuesday, November 30 | 11:00 a.m.-11:10 a.m. | SSG07-04 | Room S102DDespite a design intended to minimize claustrophobia, neither short-bore nor open MR imaging can totally prevent these reactions in patients, researchers will report in this Tuesday scientific session.
November 16, 2010
Same-day renal function testing helps manage contrast dose for CT, MRI
By Kate Madden Yee
Monday, November 29 | 11:00 a.m.-11:10 a.m. | SSC07-04 | Room S102DTesting patients' renal function the same day they are scheduled for MRI or CT exams helps clinicians better manage contrast dose, according to researchers from the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY.
November 16, 2010
More docs using MRI to follow up equivocal results in abdomen
By Kate Madden Yee
Monday, November 29 | 10:50 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | SSC07-03 | Room S102DMore clinicians are recommending further MRI exams more often after initial abdominal MRIs prove equivocal, according to researchers from Harvard Medical School in Boston.
November 16, 2010
Dose reduction to be GE RSNA highlight
By Brian Casey
Technologies to reduce radiation dose from medical imaging procedures will be highlighted in GE Healthcare's RSNA booth this year. At the top of the list is GE's adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction (ASIR) technology, which can reduce dose for CT studies by 40% to 50%, according to the company.
November 15, 2010
Mint Medical debuts Lesion software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
German image processing software developer Mint Medical will showcase its Lesion software at this month's RSNA meeting in Chicago.
November 15, 2010
F-18 choline PET/CT outpaces whole-body MRI in recurrent prostate cancer
By Wayne Forrest
Sunday, November 28 | 12:05 p.m.-12:15 p.m. | SSA18-09 | Room S505ABPreliminary results of an Italian study show that while whole-body MRI did not match accuracy levels of F-18 choline PET/CT in detecting the local recurrence of prostate cancer, whole-body MRI is still a promising tool in restaging patients with the disease.
November 15, 2010
FDG-PET bests CT, MRI in detecting vasculitis and infection
By Wayne Forrest
Sunday, November 28 | 11:45 a.m.-11:55 a.m. | SSA18-07 | Room S505ABWith the help of FDG-PET, researchers at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany are detecting vasculitis and vascular stent graft/prosthesis infection in patients for whom other cross-sectional imaging modalities are not as effective.
November 15, 2010
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