Eric Barnes[email protected]CTMannitol in water outperforms iodinated oral contrastThursday, December 3 | 11:00 a.m.-11:10 a.m. | SSQ08-04 | Room E353CThe use of mannitol as an endoluminal contrast agent increases diagnostic efficacy in bowel pathology, handily beating iodinated contrast and water alone, according to research from Kasturba Medical College in Manipal, India.November 15, 2009CTPerfusion CT improves distinction of benign versus malignant lymph nodesThursday, December 3 | 10:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m. | SSQ13-01 | Room N228Perfusion CT offers additional functional information for the characterization of lymph nodes, which is useful for distinguishing benign from malignant nodes, according to a research team from India with extensive experience in perfusion imaging.November 15, 2009CTHigh-pitch DECT unfazed by squirming kidsWednesday, December 2 | 3:10 p.m.-3:20 p.m. | SSM19-02 | Room N230Judging from the results of a phantom study using dual-energy CT (DECT), infants will soon be able to squirm and fuss all they want without blurring the images. Lead author Cynthia McCollough, Ph.D., told AuntMinnie.com there's a lot of excitement around the use of high-pitch scanning in children to facilitate the whole process.November 15, 2009CTFew CIN cases among at-risk contrast-enhanced CT patientsWednesday, December 2 | 11:30 a.m.-11:40 a.m. | SSK11-07 | Room S102DThe Netherlands guidelines issued in 2007 for administering iodine-based contrast media recommend determining renal function before contrast-enhanced CT in patients 60 years and older with diabetes mellitus, heart failure, vascular disease, hypertension, history of renal disease, or urologic disease. Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center researchers sought to update the guidelines with the assessment of their CT population of 319 consecutive patients scanned over two weeks.November 15, 2009CTPatient history, indications can inform which incidental lung nodules to work upWednesday, December 2 | 11:30 a.m.-11:40 a.m. | SSK06-07 | Room S504CDRadiologists often run into incidental lung nodules when performing abdominal CT, but it's not always clear whether to work them up. To help address this issue, Dr. Carol Wu from Massachusetts General Hospital and colleagues look at 413 abdominal scan patients with incidental lung nodules that were followed up at least once with chest CT.November 15, 2009CTCoronary CTA rules out disease for 1-2 years in intermediate-risk patientsWednesday, December 2 | 10:50 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | SSK03-03 | Room S502ABThere are few outcomes studies with regard to coronary CT angiography's (CTA) ability to diagnose and rule out coronary artery disease. But what people want to know when a CTA test is negative is that there is no coronary artery disease.November 15, 2009CTDecision tree (often) favors coronary CCTA for chest painWednesday, December 2 | 10:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | SSK03-02 | Room S502ABChest pain patients represent an expensive and time-consuming healthcare burden, fraught with risk. Whether coronary CT angiography (CCTA) is a solution to this problem will be discussed in this Wednesday scientific session presentation.November 15, 2009CTMortality data correspond to simple 'counting' calcium measure on ungated CTTuesday, December 1 | 3:30 p.m.-3:40 p.m. | SSJ05-04 | Room S504ABA simple visual counting assessment of calcium scores in low-dose ungated chest CT provides clinically relevant information that corresponds to patient mortality data, according to a new study from Israel.November 15, 2009CTPlenty of incidental extracardiac findings at screening CT, few interventionsTuesday, December 1 | 11:50 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | SSG09-09 | Room S102DIncidental extracardiac findings pose a quandary for reporting radiologists and cardiologists -- it's uncertain whether mentioning them in radiology reports translates into effective management of clinically significant diseases. In this retrospective study, incidental findings were examined in 151 adults undergoing screening coronary CT angiography over a six-year period.November 15, 2009CTCT team sees eye risks in head scansTuesday, December 1 | 11:40 a.m.-11:50 a.m. | SSG19-08 | Room S404ABAn important but often overlooked source of excess radiation in helical CT results from the overranging effect. It is present in all helical CT scans, but it increases with an increasing number of slices. Researchers from the Netherlands assessed the impact on 163 patients undergoing head CT, using 16-, 64-, and 256-slice scanners.November 15, 2009Previous PagePage 136 of 258Next PageTop StoriesDigital X-RayChest x-rays reveal atherosclerosis in patients undergoing amputationsLower limb amputation is an increasingly common major complication of advanced peripheral arterial disease and diabetes mellitus.MRI3D MRI technique helps plan treatment for pediatric heart conditionsWomens ImagingCould AI scoring help with managing DCIS?CTClinicians, beware: CT diagnostic accuracy varies by adnexal lesion typePractice ManagementRadiology coding update for 2026
