Eric Barnes[email protected]CTCT overused for Hodgkin's surveillance in children, study showsA study appearing on Monday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found that surveillance CT to look for cancer recurrence is overused in children diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma.June 10, 2012CTBackers of CT screening slam new lung cancer guidelines: Part 2Are last month's guidelines on CT lung screening too conservative? AuntMinnie.com is exploring that question in a two-part series that examines the science and politics of CT screening. In part 2, we examine what happens to those who fall outside the new screening criteria, as well who might be opposed to performing CT lung scans.June 6, 2012CTBackers of CT screening slam new lung cancer guidelines: Part 1Are last month's guidelines on CT lung screening too conservative? That's the contention of a number of CT screening advocates, who believe that restricting the technology to high-risk individuals means thousands of current and former smokers could die of advanced disease that could have been detected earlier.June 5, 2012Practice ManagementRadiologists leave Univ. of Mo. after Medicare fraud inquiryAn internal investigation of possible Medicare fraud at the University of Missouri has resulted in two radiologists leaving the university and the dean of the school of medicine announcing his retirement. The radiologists are suspected of billing Medicare for imaging studies they never reviewed.June 3, 2012CTEmergency departments reserve CT for complex casesThe vast majority of CT exams of the abdomen and pelvis in U.S. emergency departments are ordered for clinically complex cases, suggesting that fears of CT overuse in simple clinical cases are largely unsupported, according to a study in the June Journal of the American College of Radiology.May 31, 2012CTAnalysis: Don't screen low-risk people for lung cancer -- everSAN FRANCISCO - Screening lower-risk individuals snuffs out the benefit of CT lung cancer screening while multiplying the costs and risks of the technology, according to a presentation on Tuesday at the 2012 American Thoracic Society meeting.May 22, 2012CTDDW: Patients prefer conventional colonoscopy versus VCGastroenterologists from British Columbia were surprised to find that patients undergoing same-day virtual colonoscopy followed by conventional colonoscopy preferred the latter, according to a presentation on Sunday at the Digestive Disease Week (DDW) meeting in San Diego.May 21, 2012CTNew guidelines support CT lung screening -- with caveatsSAN FRANCISCO - New clinical guidelines released this week support the use of CT to screen high-risk individuals for lung cancer. But while the guidelines are the next step toward large-scale screening, they advise the scans only for individuals ages 55 to 74 who have more than 30 pack-years of smoking history.May 20, 2012CTJACC: Prospective CCTA cuts radiation dose by two-thirdsConfirming the results of several smaller studies, the multinational PROTECTION III study found that applying prospective electrocardiogram triggering to coronary CT angiography (CCTA) reduced radiation dose by two-thirds without any drop in image quality, according to a study in the May JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.May 17, 2012CTCT of 154-year-old brain injury offers lessons for todayRailroad supervisor Phineas Gage suffered a terrible accident in 1848 when an explosion drove a metal rod though his left cheek and out the top of his head. But Gage didn't die from the accident, and his case now offers valuable insight into brain function, according to an article in PLoS One.May 16, 2012Previous PagePage 85 of 258Next PageTop StoriesCTVideo: Perry Pickhardt on CTC, the 'best kept secret in medicine'Perry Pickhardt, MD, offers an overview of the important role CTC can play in colorectal cancer screening.Molecular ImagingExperts issue appropriate use criteria for molecular breast imagingMRIfMRI: Cognitive behavioral therapy positively affects the brainPractice ManagementPost Cures Act, outpatients access radiology reports fasterMRIMRI may help guide brachial plexus surgery
![Coronal and axial slice of the average cortical F-18 MK-6240 SUVR [standard uptake value ratio] image for each study population. SUVR images were corrected for partial volume effects and masked with the gray matter mask used for volume of interest delineation. Overall tau accumulation is comparable between the late-life depression (LLD, middle column) and non-depressed cognitively unimpaired comparison (HC, left column) groups, while abnormal tau accumulation, which is most pronounced in the mesial temporal lobe, can be seen in the mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease group (right column). Image and caption courtesy of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.](https://img.auntminnie.com/files/base/smg/all/image/2024/07/Tau_depressed.66a16540ee0a1.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
