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FDG-PET/CT perhaps unnecessary for anal cancer staging
By Wayne Forrest
Monday, December 2 | 3:40 p.m.-3:50 p.m. | SSE08-05 | Room E353CIn this scientific session, Swedish researchers will discuss how contrast-enhanced CT appears to be sufficient for lymph node staging in squamous cell carcinoma of the anorectum and anal verge, decreasing the need for biopsy and PET/CT.
November 13, 2013
SPECT/CT should be used for lymph nodes with vulvar cancer
By Wayne Forrest
Monday, December 2 | 3:00 p.m.-3:10 p.m. | SSE20-01 | Room S505ABWhen it comes to detecting both sentinel lymph nodes and downstream lymph nodes in vulvar cancer, SPECT/CT is superior to conventional planar lymphoscintigraphy, according to a new study from German researchers.
November 13, 2013
3T DWI-MRI equals PET/CT for bone and soft-tissue tumors
By Wayne Forrest
Sunday, December 1 | 11:35 a.m.-11:45 a.m. | SSA14-06 | Room E451BKorean researchers have found that 3-tesla diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI-MRI) is comparable to FDG-PET/CT for evaluating bone and soft-tissue tumors.
November 13, 2013
FDG-PET/CT takes on bone scans for Ewing's sarcoma
By Wayne Forrest
Sunday, December 1 | 11:05 a.m.-11:15 a.m. | SSA18-03 | Room S505ABAre methylene diphosphonate bone scans necessary during initial staging of Ewing's sarcoma patients if FDG-PET/CT is performed? That's the question researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center sought to answer in this study.
November 13, 2013
Breaking bad news: Some docs are more willing than others
By Eric Barnes
It's no surprise that residents and radiologists don't like breaking bad news to patients with serious medical conditions. But a survey from Pakistan suggests some types of medical specialists are more willing to tell patients the awful truth, while others pass the job along to the referring physician.
November 13, 2013
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Radiologists can fight reading fatigue with a few steps
By Erik L. Ridley
Feeling a little tired from your long image reading session? You're not the only one. But you may be able to reduce fatigue by wearing contact lenses instead of glasses, brightening up the reading room, and viewing images on the right type of LCD monitor, Japanese researchers have concluded.
November 12, 2013
ASL-MRI shows benefit of exercise for older adults
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
MRI with an arterial spin labeling (ASL) protocol has shown that regular physical exercise appears to help healthy aging adults improve their memory, brain function, and physical fitness.
November 12, 2013
Gamma Medica to show upgrades at RSNA 2013
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Molecular imaging developer Gamma Medica plans to unveil new enhancements to its LumaGem molecular breast imaging system at RSNA 2013.
November 12, 2013
JACR: How inappropriate is CT use, really?
By Kate Madden Yee
It's true that some proportion of patients is exposed to large numbers of CT scans. But the characteristics of these patients and their doctors are consistent with reasonable medical decision-making, according to new research published online in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
November 12, 2013
Coregistration, mapping maximize accuracy of CT air-trapping evaluation
By Eric Barnes
Friday, December 6 | 10:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m. | SST04-01 | Room E451BCoregistering inspiration and expiration CT datasets and voxel-by-voxel mapping of Hounsfield unit values boost the accuracy of air-trapping assessment, according to researchers in Germany.
November 12, 2013
Hot topic session covers 'killer apps' for spectral CT
By Eric Barnes
Thursday, December 5 | 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | SPSH56 | Room S403BSpectral CT is emerging as a powerful way to get more image from less dose -- with some added tricks that other CT techniques simply can't provide. This special session is dedicated to spectral imaging's growing list of uses.
November 12, 2013
Iterative reconstruction boosts lung nodule volumetry, too
By Eric Barnes
Thursday, December 5 | 11:30 a.m.-11:40 a.m. | SSQ04-07 | Room S405ABWhat are the low-dose limits? Researchers from Kobe University in Japan wanted to know how low they could go in phantom studies of lung nodules using advanced iterative reconstruction.
November 12, 2013
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