Clinical News: Page 365

Ultrasound jostles for bigger role in screening dense breasts

By Emily Hayes

With a national reporting standard for breast density across the U.S. on the near horizon, ultrasound is poised to play a greater role as an adjunct to mammography in screening, along with other imaging modalities.

January 6, 2022

Shine, DOE iron out details on Mo-99 production

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Shine Medical Technologies and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have inked contracts covering details for production of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) at the company's new facility in Janesville, WI.

January 5, 2022

Was mummified woman really pregnant?

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

An Egyptian expert in CT scans of mummies has called into question whether a mummified woman identified in a Polish museum last year was in fact pregnant, as claimed by authors of an article published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.

January 5, 2022

Cancer deaths increasing worldwide

By Will Morton

Deaths worldwide from cancer rose to 10 million in 2019, with the number of new cases increasing to more than 23 million, according to an article published December 30 in JAMA Oncology.

January 5, 2022

AI helps predict which DCIS patients need to be upstaged

By Amerigo Allegretto

Machine-learning models could help predict which patients with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) should be upstaged by using radiomic features from mammograms, according to research published January 4 in Radiology.

January 5, 2022

AuntMinnie.com Ultrasound Insider

By Amerigo Allegretto

January 5, 2022

Should breast ultrasound scans after COVID vaccines be postponed?

By Amerigo Allegretto

When using ultrasound to follow up on suspicious breast masses in patients who just got a second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, it may be wise to postpone scans to between 12 and 16 weeks to reduce unnecessary biopsies, according to research published December 22 in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

January 5, 2022

Cubresa's BrainPET to be installed at institute in Ariz.

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Cubresa will install its BrainPET scanner at the Barrow Neurological Institute as part of a partnership with Arizona State University.

January 4, 2022

SPECT/CT augmented reality may help visualize metastatic melanoma

By Will Morton

Augmented reality visualization of SPECT/CT data can help guide surgeons in identifying sentinel lymph nodes in patients with metastatic melanoma, according to a study published January 3 in Oral Oncology.

January 4, 2022

7T proton MR spectroscopy spots brain changes in MS patients

By Kate Madden Yee

Proton MR spectroscopy can identify changes in the brains of people with multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a study published January 4 in Radiology.

January 4, 2022

POCUS good for localizing catheters in newborn patients

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is an effective alternative to conventional x-ray when it comes to localizing small-bore percutaneously inserted central catheters, according to Italian research published December 28 in the Journal of Pediatrics.

January 4, 2022

RaySearch lands deal to supply RayStation to UAMS

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radiation therapy software developer RaySearch Laboratories has signed an agreement to deliver its RayStation treatment planning software to the Radiation Oncology Center being built at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).

January 3, 2022

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