Brian Casey

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Portable CT takes imaging to SARS patients

If you can’t move the patients to the scanner, move the scanner to the patients. It was an elegant solution for radiologists at a Singapore hospital, who faced the dilemma of finding a way to image SARS patients without causing further spread of the highly infectious virus.

January 21, 2004

New Year’s resolution: Take a SalaryScan

AuntMinnie’s CompHealth salary survey is once again open to data collection, giving you the opportunity to join thousands of your colleagues who have helped make SalaryScan one of the most accurate tools available for comparing salaries in radiology.

January 20, 2004

MRI: The feel-good modality

Could certain types of MRI exams confer an emotional pick-me-up to psychiatric patients? Such are the tantalizing implications of research we’re featuring this week in our MRI Digital Community.

January 15, 2004

Sky’s the limit with CAD technology

The use of computer-aided detection(CAD) technology has become mainstream in breast imaging, where clinical studies show it can help radiologists detect 20% more cancers. But CAD isn’t just for mammography anymore -- it is making inroads into areas like CT and MRI, and is even showing promise for detecting pathology beyond its traditional stronghold in oncology.

January 13, 2004

A year-end thank you from AuntMinnie.com

As the year draws to a close, we’d like to take a moment to thank you -- the members of AuntMinnie.com -- for making 2003 such a success for us.

December 30, 2003

Verdict is in: Life's better in radiology

Radiology has its share of challenges, from inadequate reimbursement to turf encroachment from other specialties. But on the whole, radiologists have a more positive outlook than do physicians in other medical specialties.

December 23, 2003

CT lung screening gets boost from sputum cytology

CT could be a powerful tool for screening individuals at risk for lung cancer, but concerns over the cost-benefit ratio of widespread screening have held it back. Using sputum cytology to screen the screening candidates could improve detection rates and enable CT to be more efficient in detecting thoracic lesions, however.

December 18, 2003

Boycott letter backfires in mammo malpractice case

Mammography providers upset about the high cost of malpractice litigation have been rumbling about launching a boycott against radiologists who testify for plaintiffs in malpractice cases. But things may have gone too far in Florida, where a malpractice case is in limbo after one of the defendants sent an article supporting a boycott to a prominent radiologist testifying for the plaintiffs.

December 16, 2003

PACS experts review RSNA vendor exhibits

This week AuntMinnie.com is serving up two of the industry’s most prominent experts on digital imaging to sort through the new digital technologies shown at the RSNA meeting.

December 11, 2003

Vibrant RSNA meeting still radiology's apex

This year’s meeting once again demonstrated why the RSNA conference maintains its status as the epicenter of radiology. Nearly 60,000 radiology professionals from all over the world descended on McCormick Place to exchange ideas, present new research, and kick tires on the latest imaging technology.

December 9, 2003

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Active thyroid surveillance effective, beneficial for older patients

Active surveillance with ultrasound and pathology is effective for patients with early-stage thyroid cancer, especially older ones.

A 58-year-old woman was diagnosed with ER-positive (Allred score 8) ILC in her right breast. Ultrasound and MRI found prominent lymph nodes in right axillary level I area, diagnosed as metastasis on ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration. F-18 FES-PET/CT showed a positive mass in right breast (white arrow; SUVmax, 5.6) and multiple F-18 FES–positive lymph nodes in right axillary level I, II, and II/III junction areas (red arrows; SUVmax, up to 12.2). In addition, a small F-18 FES-positive lymph node was observed in the right second internal mammary area (red circles; SUVmax, 1.8). However, biopsy could not be performed because it was too small and not visible on ultrasound; the clinician decided to include internal mammary lymph node in treatment field for adjuvant radiotherapy. The patient underwent lumpectomy with ALN dissection, with five metastases being identified in 13 lymph nodes dissected, and is scheduled to receive adjuvant chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and endocrine therapy.

FES-PET shows promise staging women with invasive lobular cancer

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Structured CT reporting tool may aid hernia detection after bariatric surgery

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Higher ventricular and atrial heart volumes boost cardiac disease risk

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Hybrid AI reading shows success in breast cancer screening

RSNA 2014

Walter Maerzendorfer, CEO of the Computed Tomography & Radiation Oncology Business Unit, Imaging and Therapy Systems Division, at Siemens Healthcare accepts the Minnies award for Best New Radiology Device for the company's Somatom Force CT scanner from AuntMinnie.com Editor-in-Chief Brian Casey at RSNA 2014.

December 1, 2014

Minnies Most Influential Radiology Researcher

Dr. Richard Duszak, from Emory University/Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute, receives the Minnies award for Most Influential Radiology Researcher from from AuntMinnie.com Editor-in-Chief Brian Casey at RSNA 2014.

December 1, 2014

RSNA 2014

Dr. Sarah Friedewald from Chicago receives the Minnies award for Scientific Paper of the Year, "Breast cancer screening using tomosynthesis in combination with digital mammography," from AuntMinnie.com Editor-in-Chief Brian Casey at RSNA 2014.

December 1, 2014

Best New Radiology Vendor

AuntMinnie.com Editor-in-Chief Brian Casey presents the Minnies award for Best New Radiology Vendor to Chris Meenan, the co-founder, president, and CEO of Analytical Informatics, at RSNA 2014

November 30, 2014

Best Radiology Training Program

Frances Gilman from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia accepts the Minnies award for Best Radiologic Technologist Training Program from AuntMinnie.com Editor-in-Chief Brian Casey at RSNA 2014.

November 30, 2014

Economics trumps clinical issues in 2014 Minnies awards

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October 28, 2014

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Economics trumps clinical issues in 2014 Minnies awards

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October 28, 2014

2014 10 27 16 50 13 51 Commodity Coffee Beans 200

Winners of 2013 Minnies highlight CT's resilience

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October 29, 2013

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Eliot Siegel receiving AuntMinnie award

Dr. Eliot Siegel of the University of Maryland receives the Minnies Award for Most Effective Radiology Educator from AuntMinnie Editor in Chief Brian Casey at the RSNA 2011 meeting.

November 27, 2011

RSNA 2010

Paul Berger, MD, of Coeur d'Alene, ID, accepts his Most Effective Radiology Volunteer/Philanthropist Minnies trophy from AuntMinnie features editor Wayne Forrest.

December 1, 2010

RSNA 2010

The Minnies award for Best New Radiology Vendor is presented by Paul Davis (left), director of marketing for AuntMinnie.com, to Peter Taylor, Sir Michael Brady, and Timothy James, PhD, of Acuitas Medical.

November 28, 2010

RSNA 2009

Rcadia Medical Imaging marketing director Maayan Wenderow and CEO Shai Levanon receive the Minnies award for Best New Radiology Vendor from AuntMinnie editor in chief Brian Casey.

November 30, 2009

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