Eric Barnes[email protected]CTBeyond images: futuristic lung atlas created with CTForget about suspicious nodular opacities. A team of radiologists, pulmonologists and bioengineers are going beyond CT images to create a virtually perfect model of lung morphology and function. The five-year, $7 million research effort is being funded by the National Institute of Health's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.November 20, 2003CTBilling for VC: even the reimbursement is virtualVirtual colonoscopy billing has been likened to creative writing -- for fun, that is, not profit -- because it so rarely pays. Indeed, one of the most plausible ways of getting reimbursed for the exam involves writing a convincing essay.November 18, 2003CTAuntMinnie.com's CT Radiology InsiderThe group that pioneered virtual bronchoscopy in the 1990s has taken a giant step into the future of lung imaging. Erik Hoffman, Ph.D. and his colleagues at the University of Iowa are leading a new five-year U.S. research effort to create a futuristic model of lung morphology and function.November 16, 2003CTPET/CT is the team to beat for NSCLC stagingIn the study, 27 patients with NSCLC underwent whole-body PET/CT for either primary tumor staging or restaging after neoadjuvant therapy.November 16, 2003CTThanks to technology, CT lung nodule assessment gets trickierThe distinctions among tumor types have become more important with the rapid evolution of CT image quality. The vendors' latest prototype scanners go even smaller and all of the vendors are headed toward isotropic imaging. What was once an indeterminate finding can now be seen in great detail.November 13, 2003CTSaline flush boosts contrast enhancement in abdominal CTResearchers from Austria have used the saline flush to increase contrast enhancement in both parenchymal and vascular structures of the abdomen. Well known in MRI, the procedure has not been routinely used in CT, where it could potentially improve enhancement while reducing the associated costs and risks.November 5, 2003CTPolitics matters in the real world of virtual colonoscopyThe colonoscopy may be virtual, but the politics shaping its approval for screening can be excruciatingly real. At the 2003 International Symposium on Virtual Colonoscopy in Boston, radiologist Dr. Joseph Ferrucci from Boston University School of Medicine offered evidence, and some politics of his own, in a discussion of VC's future.November 4, 2003CTMayo group seeks to optimize pancreatic MDCT protocolsWhile its incidence has been declining for several decades, pancreatic cancer is still expected to kill more than 30,000 Americans in 2003. A group from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, is examining the value of multislice CT for arterial, pancreatic, and hepatic-phase imaging for the detection of pancreatic malignancy.October 26, 2003CTGroup credits 3D reading for best-ever VC resultsBOSTON - U.S. military researchers were all they could be at this week's International Symposium on Virtual Colonoscopy. At Monday's opening sessions, Navy radiologist Dr. Perry Pickhardt reported the most accurate results ever seen in a large virtual colonoscopy trial.October 14, 2003CTMass appeal: VC CAD doesn't stop at polypsThe University of Chicago has been at the forefront of VC CAD research, thanks to its successful deployment of a shape-and-texture-based polyp detection scheme and a colon segmentation technique to reduce false positives. Now the project comes full circle with a CAD scheme that detects masses as well as lesions.October 9, 2003Previous PagePage 226 of 258Next PageTop StoriesInterventionalHow much solid waste do neurointerventions generate?Researchers quantified waste generation in their neurointerventional angiography suite over 90 days.Risk ManagementPodcast: 3 points of crisis communication following fatal MRI accidentPractice ManagementTurnover increasing among radiology practicesCTFibrosis pattern on CT predicts CPFE progression rate, but not survivalSponsor ContentHow Agentic AI Is Transforming Radiology Ops
