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Ikonopedia installs breast imaging software in NC
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Breast imaging software developer Ikonopedia has installed its suite of breast imaging software tools at Charlotte Radiology in Charlotte, NC.
November 22, 2015
FDA says film printing optional for mammography
By Eric Barnes
In a guidance to mammography facilities, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said that printing breast images to hard-copy film is no longer necessary and can be performed at the discretion of individual centers.
November 22, 2015
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Forget Watson -- it's the pigeons you should worry about
By Kate Madden Yee
If you think artificial intelligence could replace radiologists someday, there may be a new menace: It turns out that pigeons can distinguish benign from malignant tissue and identify certain cancer features with similar accuracy as their human counterparts, according to a new study published in PLOS One.
November 17, 2015
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DBT cuts recall rate in women with no prior mammograms
By Kate Madden Yee
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) cuts the number of recalls in a subset of women vulnerable to higher recall rates: those who have never had a prior mammogram, according to a new study in the November issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
November 12, 2015
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Road to RSNA 2015: Women's Imaging Preview
By Kate Madden Yee
Women's imaging is a crucial part of healthcare around the world, and it is particularly unique because it makes use of such a variety of modalities. This fact will be obvious to RSNA 2015 attendees, as researchers discuss topics ranging from ways to use abbreviated MR protocols in high-risk screening programs to using dedicated breast CT for imaging microcalcifications.
November 10, 2015
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Sense-soothing imaging room boosts mammography's performance
By Kate Madden Yee
Friday, December 4 | 11:50 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | SST01-09 | Room E450BThis Friday presentation will detail a sense-soothing imaging room that helps women relax while they undergo mammography, allowing better images to be acquired and possibly reducing false negatives.
November 10, 2015
Breast density analysis IDs women needing more screening
By Eric Barnes
Friday, December 4 | 11:30 a.m.-11:40 a.m. | SST01-07 | Room E450BIn this Friday session, Dutch investigators will present an automated way to identify women who most need supplemental breast cancer screening, based on breast density.
November 10, 2015
Texture analysis sorts out uterine findings at MRI
By Eric Barnes
Thursday, December 3 | 11:50 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | SSQ10-09 | Room E450BWith the help of texture analysis, MRI can distinguish between two uterine findings that have traditionally been difficult to separate, a group from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center reports.
November 10, 2015
Contrast ultrasound matches MRI for gauging chemo success
By Kate Madden Yee
Wednesday, December 2 | 3:40 p.m.-3:50 p.m. | SSM02-05 | Room E451BContrast-enhanced ultrasound is comparable to contrast-enhanced MRI for evaluating treatment response in breast cancer patients undergoing preoperative neoadjuvant chemotherapy, according to researchers from the University of Southern California.
November 10, 2015
Breast elastography helps surgeons distinguish DCIS
By Kate Madden Yee
Wednesday, December 2 | 3:30 p.m.-3:40 p.m. | SSM02-04 | Room E451BThis session will describe how shear-wave elastography with B-mode ultrasound can distinguish between ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and invasive cancer, helping surgeons determine the proper extent of surgery.
November 10, 2015
Who should deliver patients' breast biopsy results?
By Kate Madden Yee
Wednesday, December 2 | 3:20 p.m.-3:30 p.m. | SSM01-03 | Room E451APatients want to hear breast biopsy results from the healthcare provider who ordered the test, even if they perceive radiologists as important to their care, a group from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has found.
November 10, 2015
Analysis cuts no-show rate at breast imaging center
By Erik L. Ridley
Wednesday, December 2 | 12:15 p.m.-12:45 p.m. | QS128-ED-WEA3 | Lakeside Learning Center, Station 3A team from Stony Brook University will detail its success in significantly decreasing the patient no-show rate at a breast imaging center.
November 10, 2015
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