Clinical News: Page 275

Is it time to move away from using 'women's imaging?'

By Amerigo Allegretto

Women's imaging is an umbrella term covering different aspects of medical imaging focused on women. But it may be time to stop using this term, according to an editorial published October 17 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

October 20, 2022

MRI-based prostate cancer risk assessment tool proves effective

By Kate Madden Yee

An MRI-based tool for calculating a man's risk of prostate cancer is more effective than a calculator based on Gleason scores, according to research published October 16 in the World Journal of Urology.

October 20, 2022

Patients from low-income nations at risk of delayed cancer diagnoses

By Kate Madden Yee

Patients from low-income countries are more vulnerable to delayed cancer diagnoses -- in part due to the fact that it can take 1.5 to 4 times longer than their high-income counterparts for them to seek care, a report published October 20 in PLOS Medicine has found.

October 20, 2022

Philips expands radiation oncology portfolio

By Erik L. Ridley

Philips has unveiled its MR for Calculating Attenuation Head and Neck radiotherapy application and announced the compatibility of its MR Head and Neck Coil with a positioning mask system from MacroMedics.

October 20, 2022

Ziosoft to highlight virtual surgical visualization at ACS

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Ziosoft plans to highlight its virtual surgical visualization technology at the annual American College of Surgeons (ACS) conference in San Diego, which is being held from October 16 to 20.

October 19, 2022

Spectrum highlights new SPECT/CT capability

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Spectrum Dynamics is highlighting a new nuclear medicine imaging capability: to image high-energy isotopes using solid-state detector technology in a 360˚ cadmium zinc telluride-based, wide-bore SPECT/CT configuration.

October 19, 2022

Intelligent Ultrasound nerve block device gets FDA clearance

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Intelligent Ultrasound Group said its ScanNav Anatomy Peripheral Nerve Block device has been granted de novo clearance for clinical use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

October 19, 2022

IBA software now compatible with Varian software

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Ion Beam Applications (IBA) recently received approval from Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company, to incorporate Varian's Halcyon and Ethos radiotherapy software into its MatriXX Resolution and myQA SRS platforms.

October 19, 2022

AuntMinnie.com Ultrasound Insider

By Amerigo Allegretto

October 19, 2022

TI-RADS, algorithm can determine benign, malignant ultrasound findings

By Amerigo Allegretto

The Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System (TI-RADS) and a deep-learning algorithm based on ultrasound images can both be alternatives for evaluating thyroid nodules in young patients, a study published October 19 in the American Journal of Roentgenology found.

October 19, 2022

Head-to-head study evaluates Alzheimer's disease biomarkers

By Will Morton

A plasma tau biomarker and tau PET imaging performed equally well at identifying Alzheimer's disease pathology, yet tau PET appears superior for monitoring disease staging and clinical progression, according to a group in the Netherlands.

October 19, 2022

XRHealth, HTC Vive launch platform to mitigate MRI stress

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

XRHealth and HTC Vive have launched a virtual reality platform to help mitigate anxiety in patients who are undergoing MRI exams and other high-intensity medical procedures.

October 18, 2022

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