Cynthia E. Keen[email protected]Nuclear MedicineSPECT/CT may reduce lymphedema risk in breast cancer patientsThe risk of radiation-induced damage to critical drainage lymph nodes during treatment for breast cancer may be reduced by using SPECT/CT during treatment planning, according to findings presented at this month's San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.December 12, 2010ISRadiation therapy overdoses top ECRI's technology hazard listRadiation overdoses and other errors during radiation therapy are the top hazard faced by patients from medical technology, according to a top 10 list for 2011 compiled by research and consulting group ECRI Institute of Plymouth Meeting, PA.December 9, 2010ISRSNA's quantitative reading room offers glimpse of futureThis year's RSNA meeting featured the Quantitative Imaging Reading Room of the Future -- a dedicated zone where a steady stream of visitors heard expert presentations about and interacted with 23 exhibits of future IT technology that may well transform the specialty.December 9, 2010ISAuntMinnie.com Healthcare IT InsiderDecember 5, 2010MRIBrain MRI recommended for children with hydrocephalusCHICAGO - Though CT is commonly used to monitor children with shunted hydrocephalus, it comes at a high radiation-dose price. MRI using rapid brain protocols can produce diagnostically acceptable results and eliminate the repeated exposure to CT radiation dose, researchers have found.December 2, 2010ISElectronic stopwatch records critical results notification timesCHICAGO - Notifying ordering physicians of critical or unexpected findings can be time-consuming and inefficient. But how much time, exactly, is spent? A team at Baptist Memorial Hospital has created a stopwatch application that can record and quantify this valuable information.December 1, 2010CTACR/RSNA launch national Image Wisely campaignCHICAGO - It's hard to miss the Image Wisely owls mingling at the RSNA show. The national campaign, which encourages radiology professionals to guard against inappropriate and/or excessive exposure of patients to radiation dose, launched on Sunday at RSNA 2010.November 29, 2010ISRSNA enlarges report template library, creates new websiteCHICAGO - Pssst ... need some "best-practice" radiology reporting templates developed and used by experts in their fields? If so, the RSNA has a deal for you. During a Sunday presentation, it was announced that with the release of 30 new report templates, the RSNA's library will now contain more than 100 free templates.November 28, 2010ISDecision-support software has practice-changing implicationsCHICAGO - A state program using a clinical decision-support tool was described modestly today at the first scientific session on informatics. However, assuming that the statewide rollout is as successful as a pilot project that involved half of Minnesota's insured population, it may someday be regarded as a pioneer.November 27, 2010Digital X-RayQCT identifies bone loss after ob/gyn cancer treatmentWith the use of quantitative CT (QCT), researchers from the University of Minnesota determined that gynecologic cancer patients lost as much as one-fourth of their bone mineral density after undergoing chemotherapy and radiation therapy.November 25, 2010Previous PagePage 43 of 88Next PageTop StoriesMRIMRI may help guide brachial plexus surgeryMRI-based volumetric analysis of paraspinal muscles can distinguish the severity of traumatic brachial plexus injury.AIShould hospitals pursue local domain LLM adaptation for radiology reports?Womens ImagingMRI model predicts breast tumor shrinkage patternsMRICheck for middle neck involvement for nasopharyngeal cancer prognosisMolecular ImagingPET links brain receptor to emotional numbing in PTSD