Clinical News: Page 497

Perimeter receives FDA breakthrough nod for AI software

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Perimeter Medical Imaging AI announced it has received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) breakthrough device designation for its optical coherence tomography technology coupled with its ImgAssist artificial intelligence (AI) software.

April 14, 2021

Canon Medical, RaySearch expand partnership

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Canon Medical Systems USA said it is expanding its partnership with RaySearch Laboratories to distribute Canon CT and PET/CT scanners in the U.S.

April 14, 2021

Siemens Healthineers completes Varian acquisition

By Brian Casey

It's been called the biggest acquisition in healthcare this year, and now it's a done deal. Siemens Healthineers announced on Thursday that its purchase of Varian Medical Systems is complete. The purchase instantly makes Siemens the dominant player in the global radiation therapy market.

April 14, 2021

PET shows slow cognitive recovery in chronic COVID-19 patients

By Will Morton

FDG-PET scans and cognitive function tests showed that patients with chronic COVID-19 who suffer from neurological impairment had not yet returned to normal after six months in a recent study by German researchers.

April 14, 2021

Weight-bearing CT, 3D analysis can assess knee osteoarthritis

By Erik L. Ridley

Quantitative 3D analysis of weight-bearing CT is a promising technique for assessing the structural changes associated with knee osteoarthritis (OA), according to research published online April 13 in Radiology.

April 14, 2021

COVID-19 'drastically' impacted 2020 ultrasound volume

By Amerigo Allegretto

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically affected utilization of ultrasound exams performed by radiologists in the emergency department, according to research presented Wednesday at the virtual 2021 American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine annual meeting.

April 13, 2021

Brain imaging with CT, MRI in kidney cancer patients finds metastases

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Baseline brain imaging using CT or MRI in patients with metastatic kidney cancer can identify brain metastases before symptoms appear, according to a study published in the April issue of the Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

April 13, 2021

Ultrasound useful for COVID-19 in the ICU, but clear protocols are key

By Kate Madden Yee

Ultrasound has played a key role in the intensive care unit (ICU) during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a panel held April 13 at the virtual 2021 American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine annual meeting.

April 13, 2021

AMRA adds UK Biobank images to database

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Swedish image analysis software developer AMRA Medical has added extra participants from the UK Biobank study to its imaging database on body composition profiling.

April 13, 2021

Reps. ask CMS to change policy on radiopharmaceuticals

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Two members of the U.S. House of Representatives have asked the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to change what they said was a fundamentally flawed policy of reimbursing diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals as ancillary supplies for procedures.

April 13, 2021

Perimeter touts results of AI study

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Perimeter Medical Imaging AI is highlighting early results of a new clinical study of its ImgAssist artificial intelligence (AI) software that found the algorithm performs well in analyzing images of breast tissue.

April 13, 2021

Weight linked to risk of 2nd cancer after breast cancer

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Breast cancer survivors who are overweight have a higher risk of developing second primary cancers, according to results from a study conducted by Kaiser Permanente researchers that were published April 5 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

April 13, 2021

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