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Why x-ray is vanishing from urgent care centers
The rise of "limited-scope" urgent care centers that do not provide x-ray and aren't staffed with radiologic technologists presents a problem for the urgent care industry, according to Alan Ayers.
June 13, 2021
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Group begins research into how political environments may intersect with research practice.
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Children ‘almost invisible’ in public imaging datasets
Example of Percentile Nomogram With Age-Adjusted BAC Quartiles. (A) Mammogram of a 56-year-old woman. There is evident BAC (pink arrow). This was quantified as a BAC score of 30 using the cmAngio tool. (B) Nomogram indicating that a BAC score of 30 places a 56-year-old woman within the 50th to 75th percentile for her age. Images are republished under a Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0).
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Children ‘almost invisible’ in public imaging datasets
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AI model predicts cardiovascular risk from BACs on mammograms
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Example of Percentile Nomogram With Age-Adjusted BAC Quartiles. (A) Mammogram of a 56-year-old woman. There is evident BAC (pink arrow). This was quantified as a BAC score of 30 using the cmAngio tool. (B) Nomogram indicating that a BAC score of 30 places a 56-year-old woman within the 50th to 75th percentile for her age. Images are republished under a Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0).
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Example radiographs with different labels for 'pulmonary congestion,' 'pleural effusion,' 'pulmonary opacities,' and 'atelectasis.'
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Contrast-enhanced T1 weSPGR images of the knee of a patient from the GAE group at the level of the suprapatellar recess. The baseline image (left) shows a marked synovial enhancement. There was no change one month after treatment (middle image) and four months after treatment (right image).
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