Cynthia E. Keen

PACS/VNA
Conficker worm highlights PACS cybersecurity issues
How secure is your PACS network? Do you really know? More than 300 U.S. healthcare facilities recently found out that their networks weren't as secure as they thought after getting word that software installed at their sites had been infested by the Conficker worm.
June 1, 2009
PACS/VNA
Autofax glitch sends Canadian radiology reports into limbo
Health officials in Canada's Saskatchewan province have discovered that its regional radiology information system failed to have nearly 1,400 radiology reports faxed to referring physicians over the past 10 years.
May 28, 2009
Radiation Oncology/Therapy
Audio and visual aids decrease radiation therapy treatment times
Use of respiratory-gating techniques during free breathing reduces healthy tissue exposure to radiation, but has the drawback of longer radiation therapy delivery times. Belgian researchers may have found a solution in an inexpensive, low-tech technique: At their center, visually guided voluntary breath-hold along with audio assistance reduced treatment time duration so that it's comparable to conventional treatment times.
May 18, 2009
Pediatric Radiology
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May 17, 2009
Radiation Oncology/Therapy
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May 13, 2009
Breast
Evaluating threshold screening mammograms: When to recall?
The goal of every radiologist when reading mammograms is to identify the three to four breast cancers statistically known to be lurking within 1,000 screening mammograms. Dr. Edward Sickles from the University of California, San Francisco recently offered some advice on making appropriate recall decisions with difficult screening mammograms.
May 12, 2009
Breast
ACR introduces National Mammography Database
The American College of Radiology (ACR) is establishing a National Mammography Database, a national registry of comprehensive mammography data designed to help breast imaging facilities improve their quality of care. The database will be launched officially in July 2009.
May 6, 2009
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Senate report offers details on accreditation, Stark disclosure
The U.S. Senate last week offered a look at its thinking on a number of proposals to make the U.S. healthcare system more efficient, including several ideas that affect medical imaging. But the Senate isn't giving healthcare professionals much time to mull over the proposals -- the deadline for comment is May 15.
May 5, 2009
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PACS/VNA
New search tool finds the needle in PACS haystack
Searching for an image in a PACS can be frustrating, if not impossible, if you only remember details of the diagnosis. To address this challenge, Softek Solutions has developed Illuminate -- a search engine and information management system that enables clinicians to instantly retrieve studies by searching for information that resides in radiology reports and clinical notes.
April 30, 2009
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Breast
Mammographers must step up to manage high-risk patients
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - Women who have a high risk of developing breast cancer need to be identified. But which healthcare professional has this responsibility? And once a high-risk patient is identified, who's responsible for managing her care? The topic was very much on the collective minds of breast imaging specialists at the Society of Breast Imaging's biannual meeting this week.
April 29, 2009
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POCUS performs well in assessing pathologic venous congestion
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) showed success in venous excess ultrasound assessment of critically ill patients.
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Active thyroid surveillance effective, beneficial for older patients
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.
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Photon-counting CT emerges as alternative for assessing fatty liver disease
By Will Morton
Photon-counting CT may serve as an alternative to MRI for assessing liver fat in patients with fatty liver disease.
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Liver fat content measurement with photon-counting CT and MRI-based proton density fat fraction (PDFF). Three regions of interest (circles) were delineated in the peripheral areas of the left, right anterior, and right posterior lobes of the liver. (A) Representative axial unenhanced 120-kVp standard-dose CT image (left) and corresponding MRI scan (right) in a 33-year-old man (body mass index, 26.2) diagnosed with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) in the asymptomatic cohort. (B) Representative axial unenhanced 120-kVp low-dose CT image (left) and corresponding MRI scan (right) in a 69-year-old woman (body mass index, 24.6) in the MASLD cohort. Body mass index was calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared.
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Publicly insured pregnant women less likely to get 20-week ultrasounds
By Amerigo Allegretto
Twenty-week ultrasound exams for pregnant women drives disparities in prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart defects.
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Telix to buy RLS Radiopharmacies in $250M agreement
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Acquisitions
How effective is Pluvicto in a ‘real-world’ setting?
By Will Morton
Pluvicto appears to perform as effectively in prostate cancer patients in “real-world” settings as it did in clinical trials prior to its approval.
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