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Better together in the breast: Sonoelastography and B-mode ultrasound
By Brian Casey
Wednesday, December 1 | 11:20 a.m.-11:30 a.m. | SSK01-06 | Room E450ACombining sonoelastography with conventional B-mode ultrasound improves the differentiation of benign and malignant breast masses smaller than 1 cm, according to this presentation by Korean researchers.
November 11, 2010
Shear-wave elastography improves ultrasound diagnosis of breast masses
By Kate Madden Yee
Wednesday, December 1 | 11:25 a.m.-11:35 a.m. | VB41-13 | Arie Crown TheaterWhen used with B-mode ultrasound, shear-wave elastography -- which quantitatively measures soft-tissue stiffness in real-time -- can improve the modality's specificity without compromising its sensitivity, according to researchers from Imperial College London in the U.K.
November 11, 2010
Targeted 'second-look' ultrasound finds additional, smaller lesions
By Kate Madden Yee
Tuesday, November 30 | 3:40 p.m.-3:50 p.m. | SSJ02-05 | Room E450AUsing ultrasound to take a second look at women with breast cancer who have already undergone mammography and an initial ultrasound can help find additional, smaller malignant lesions, but many of these belong to lower-risk BI-RADS categories, according to researchers from Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre in Madrid.
November 11, 2010
Axillary node reporting needs standardized lexicon
By Brian Casey
Tuesday, November 30 | 3:20 p.m.-3:30 p.m. | SSJ02-03 | Room E450AThe establishment of the BI-RADS lexicon helped standardize reporting of breast lesions; in the same way, a similar lexicon is needed for reporting suspicious lymph nodes found on axillary ultrasound scans, according to this Tuesday afternoon presentation.
November 11, 2010
Interactive breast ultrasound CAD improves lesion characterization
By Erik L. Ridley
Tuesday, November 30 | 11:10 a.m.-11:20 a.m. | SSG01-05 | Room E450AIn this paper presentation, a Canadian research team will share details on why computer-aided detection (CAD) can be a useful adjunctive tool for interpreting breast ultrasound studies.
November 11, 2010
Targeted breast US identifies cancer BI-RADS 3 lesions found by MRI
By Kate Madden Yee
Monday, November 29 | 3:00 p.m.-3:10 p.m. | SSE01-01 | Room E450AUsing targeted ultrasound on breast lesions -- particularly masses -- identified as BI-RADS category 3 by MRI can help identify malignancies, according to researchers from Brown University in Providence, RI.
November 11, 2010
3D/4D ultrasound helps clarify fetal abnormalities
By Brian Casey
Monday, November 29 | 9:20 a.m.-9:30 a.m. | VP21-04 | Room N230Fetal ultrasound with a 3D/4D scanner can produce stunning images, but are they of clinical value? In this Monday morning presentation, Egyptian radiologists will discuss how the technology helped expecting parents understand the nature of anomalies in fetuses.
November 11, 2010
AuntMinnie.com Women's Imaging Insider
By Kate Madden Yee
November 10, 2010
Univ. of Wash. students win ultrasound grant
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A team of University of Washington undergraduate students has won a $100,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to test a low-cost ultrasound system in Africa.
November 10, 2010
Sourcecorp lands TAP contract
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Offsite image storage firm Sourcecorp has received an order for its mammoTAP mammography exam archiving service.
November 9, 2010
Road to RSNA 2010: Women's Imaging Preview
By Kate Madden Yee
At this year's RSNA show, watch for presentations in women's imaging that explore ways to screen for breast cancer more effectively. There will be an emphasis on nuclear imaging technologies such as positron emission mammography (PEM), molecular breast imaging (MBI), and breast-specific gamma imaging (BSGI).
November 9, 2010
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DBT improves sensitivity, specificity of mammography
By Kate Madden Yee
Thursday, December 2 | 10:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | SSQ01-02 | Arie Crown TheaterDigital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) reduces the problem of tissue superimposition, thus improving both the sensitivity and specificity of mammography in diagnosis and screening, according to researchers from King's College Hospital in London.
November 9, 2010
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