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MedQ partners with Availity
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiology informatics firm MedQ and healthcare IT company Availity are teaming up to provide Availity's Patient Access and AuthPal services through the Q/ris 3000 software.
October 21, 2018
Fujifilm launches new CT scanner line at ASTRO 2018
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
SAN ANTONIO - Fujifilm Medical Systems USA has entered the U.S. market for CT with a new scanner line designed for radiology and oncology applications. The system debuted at this week's American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) annual meeting.
October 21, 2018
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ASTRO: AI's rad therapy future is in predicting outcomes
By Brian Casey
SAN ANTONIO - Radiation oncology is already putting artificial intelligence (AI) to work by using the technology for automating mundane tasks. But AI's real value will come when it is able to accurately predict patient outcomes, according to a Sunday talk at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) annual meeting.
October 21, 2018
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fMRI finds secrets to weight loss
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Using functional MRI (fMRI), researchers detected changes in brain activity that could relate to one's ability to lose weight. Results of the study were published online October 18 in Cell Metabolism.
October 21, 2018
ASTRO: Weekly breast radiation therapy is safe
By Abraham Kim
A larger, weekly dose of radiation therapy has side effects that are comparable to those from conventional daily treatments for early-stage breast cancer, say U.K. researchers, who shared their findings on Sunday at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) meeting in San Antonio.
October 21, 2018
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Gadolinium-enhanced MRI with PET best for prostate cancer
By Wayne Forrest
Which MR imaging sequence used with whole-body fluorocholine-PET/MRI is most proficient at detecting metastases and staging patients with prostate cancer? Canadian researchers put four sequences through their paces in a study published online October 17 in the American Journal of Roentgenology.
October 21, 2018
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CT radiomics improves management of bile duct cancer
By Abraham Kim
Researchers from China have developed a radiomics model that can determine the malignancy of lymph node metastases in patients with bile duct cancer by analyzing features on CT scans, according to an article recently published online in Radiology. They believe the model can predict the survival rate of patients.
October 18, 2018
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Should the BI-RADS 3 ultrasound category be revised?
By Kate Madden Yee
Should the current BI-RADS 3 ultrasound category -- covering breast lesions that are "probably benign" -- be revised? It appears so, according to research published online October 17 in Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology.
October 18, 2018
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Shine takes delivery of 1st production accelerator
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical isotope firm Shine Medical Technologies on October 15 took delivery of the first production accelerator at its new medical isotope production campus in Janesville, WI.
October 17, 2018
FDA seeks to amend MQSA mammography regulations
By Kate Madden Yee
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has submitted a proposed rule to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget to amend its mammography regulations.
October 17, 2018
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Sun Nuclear to highlight new software at ASTRO
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation oncology quality-assurance technology developer Sun Nuclear plans to highlight new radiation oncology patient safety software at the upcoming American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) meeting in San Antonio.
October 17, 2018
Study reveals steep cost of delaying stroke treatment
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Researchers from Canada have found that delaying treatment for stroke patients results in increasingly greater healthcare and societal costs and reductions in quality of life -- with costs rising with every passing hour, according to an October 18 presentation at the World Stroke Congress in Montreal.
October 17, 2018
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