Clinical News: Page 463

NEJM: History of CT shows its clinical importance

By Kate Madden Yee

The CT scanner has "become part of the underlying fabric of routine medical care, producing amazing images that enable accurate diagnoses and efficient therapy for millions of patients each year," according to an essay on the modality's 50th anniversary published July 3 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

July 7, 2021

Parker Labs leads investment in Solstice ultrasound contrast agent

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Parker Laboratories has led a consortium making an investment in Solstice Pharmaceuticals that's designed to fund the company's development of a new ultrasound contrast agent.

July 6, 2021

Echosens' FibroScan added to ECAT

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

French ultrasound technology developer Echosens has signed a deal with Fidelis to add FibroScan to the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency's Medical Equipment Electronic Catalogue (ECAT).

July 6, 2021

Dual-energy CT bests x-ray for diagnosing hip prosthesis instability

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Dual-energy CT performs better than x-ray when it comes to diagnosing loosened hip prostheses, according to a study published July 6 in Radiology.

July 6, 2021

Deep learning plus CT helps predict abdominal surgery outcomes

By Kate Madden Yee

A deep-learning model used with preoperative CT helps predict the complexity and outcomes of abdominal surgery more accurately than surgeons' judgment, according to research published July 7 in JAMA Surgery.

July 6, 2021

Radiomics enables 'one-stop' test for lung cancer and heart disease

By Erik L. Ridley

Radiomics analysis of low-dose CT lung screening exams can be used to stratify cardiovascular risk, creating a "one-stop" test for both lung cancer and heart disease, according to research published online June 30 in Academic Radiology.

July 6, 2021

Siemens lands FDA clearance for Magnetom Free.Max

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Siemens Healthineers has garnered U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for Magnetom Free.Max, a 0.55-tesla, wide-bore MRI scanner that features artificial intelligence and new image-processing techniques.

July 5, 2021

RaySearch brings RayStation 9 to China

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radiation therapy software developer RaySearch Laboratories has received regulatory clearance in China for its RayStation 9 software.

July 5, 2021

Ultrasound finds brain differences in infants exposed to Zika virus

By Amerigo Allegretto

Cranial ultrasound showed lenticulostriate vasculopathy to be more common in infants exposed to the mosquito-borne Zika virus in research from Brazil published June 29 in Radiology.

July 5, 2021

Varex launches Lumen 4336W DR panel

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Varex Imaging has launched a new digital radiography (DR) flat-panel detector, Lumen 4336W.

July 1, 2021

COVID-19 pandemic caused decline in preventive services

By Amerigo Allegretto

The COVID-19 pandemic led to large declines in preventive services such as breast and cervical cancer screenings, and may have increased racial and socioeconomic disparities, according to research published July 2 in JAMA Health Forum.

July 1, 2021

PET brain scans find links to PTSD severity in 9/11 responders

By Will Morton

PET imaging has revealed a link between unusual brain activity and the severity of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in 9/11 responders due to their experiences at the World Trade Center in New York in 2001, according to a study published June 30 in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity -- Health.

July 1, 2021

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