Clinical News: Page 769

Cancer screening rates dip with appointments later in day

By Kate Madden Yee

Cancer screening rates are lower in patients who see their primary care doctors later in the day compared with patients who see their doctors earlier, according to a new study published online May 10 in JAMA Network Open.

May 10, 2019

MRI Interventions gets $4M investment

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

MRI Interventions has received a $4 million equity investment from PTC Therapeutics, a developer of gene therapy-based products for rare diseases.

May 9, 2019

ARRS: Density reporting laws not enough to boost breast US

By Abraham Kim

HONOLULU - Rates of breast ultrasound (US) use have slowly trended upward in states that have adopted breast density notification laws, but this growth has yet to cross the threshold of statistical significance, according to a presentation at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting.

May 9, 2019

Deep learning finds, segments brain metastases on MRI

By Erik L. Ridley

A deep-learning algorithm automatically detected and segmented brain metastases on multisequence MRI, showing potential to help radiologists and radiation oncologists with these tedious and time-consuming tasks, according to research published online May 2 in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

May 9, 2019

ARRS: MRI protocols don't affect hip implant temperature

By Wayne Forrest

Clinicians can safely perform clinical 3-tesla MRI scans with metal artifact reduction sequence (MARS) protocols on patients with hip arthroplasty implants without excessive thermal heating of the devices, according to a study presented Thursday at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) meeting in Honolulu.

May 9, 2019

ARRS: Cinematic rendering comes to breast ultrasound

By Abraham Kim

HONOLULU - Researchers from California produced photorealistic 3D models of the breast by applying cinematic rendering to 3D transmission ultrasound images. The potential clinical applications of these models were the subject of a Wednesday presentation at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting.

May 8, 2019

Shine breaks ground on new facility

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Medical isotope firm Shine Medical Technologies has broken ground for a medical isotope production facility in Janesville, WI.

May 8, 2019

Varian buys CyberHeart, wins Norwegian ProBeam contract

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems has purchased the privately held cardiac radioablation firm CyberHeart and has secured a contract with two Norwegian proton therapy centers for its ProBeam system.

May 8, 2019

Philips inks Medtronic collaboration

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Royal Philips, the parent of Philips Healthcare, has formed a distribution agreement with device manufacturer Medtronic for Philips' cardiac imaging and navigation system, Kodex-EPD.

May 8, 2019

United Imaging gets FDA nod for PET/MRI scanner

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

United Imaging Healthcare has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for a new PET/MRI scanner that can scan the entire body in 20 minutes.

May 8, 2019

AI finds radiologists vary in follow-up recommendations

By Erik L. Ridley

An artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm helped Harvard researchers conclude that radiologists in the same subspecialty division can vary significantly in how often they recommend follow-up imaging examinations, according to an article published online May 7 in Radiology.

May 8, 2019

MRI faster, cheaper than ultrasound for appendicitis

By Kate Madden Yee

It may not be much of a surprise that MRI was faster than ultrasound for evaluating adolescent females presenting with abdominal pain that could be appendicitis in a new study, published online May 4 in Academic Radiology. But the modality was also cheaper when the entire diagnostic pathway was considered.

May 8, 2019

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