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Resources: Page 374
Debate ignites over breast MRI's added value
By
Philip Ward
VIENNA - Researchers from the Netherlands found that 3-tesla breast MRI of mammographically detected microcalcifications is of added diagnostic value, but only by expert radiologists, according to a presentation during the breast scientific session on Thursday at ECR 2013. However, their findings were challenged by a member of the audience.
March 7, 2013
Global radiologist leads the way in musculoskeletal trauma cases
By
Becky McCall
VIENNA - Go back to basic anatomy and mechanism of injury to understand which structures could possibly be injured in a particular scenario. That was the overriding message of a leading musculoskeletal radiologist in a lunchtime session on trauma on Thursday at ECR 2013.
March 7, 2013
Is visibility the only way to save radiology?
By
Eric Barnes
VIENNA - Visibility is the shield that can protect radiology against the slings and arrows steadily lining up against it, according to experts who spoke at a professional challenges session on Friday at ECR 2013.
March 7, 2013
Warning: Staff with prosthetics may not be as safe as patients
By
Becky McCall
VIENNA - Some prosthetic devices that pass as MR-compatible for patients may not be safe for radiographers and nurses, according to Dr. Nadia Oberhofer from South Tyrol, Italy. She spoke in a scientific session dedicated to MRI safety on Thursday at ECR 2013.
March 7, 2013
Ga-68 DOTATOC PET/MRI tops PET/CT for staging neuroendocrine tumors
By
Wayne Forrest
VIENNA - Researchers from University Hospital Essen in Germany have shown the feasibility of whole-body staging of patients with neuroendocrine tumors with PET/MRI and the radiotracer gallium-68 (Ga-68) DOTATOC, and with greater reliability than PET/CT, in a preliminary study presented Friday at ECR 2013.
March 7, 2013
Airport security scanners carry some radiation risk
By
Rebekah Moan
VIENNA - Airport security scanners are safe for individuals, but when their effects are considered collectively, there is still a risk of cancer developing due to the machines, ECR 2013 delegates learned at a standing-room-only session on Thursday afternoon.
March 7, 2013
CT vendors focus on iterative reconstruction, cardiac applications
By
John Bonner
VIENNA - Innovation in software technologies provides the main talking points for visitors to the CT equipment vendors' booths at the ECR 2013 commercial exhibition. Companies are demonstrating novel approaches to reducing radiation dose, improving image quality, and extending the modality's capabilities in cardiac imaging.
March 7, 2013
Prepare for the transformation of care by prostate MR imaging
By
Edna Astbury-Ward, PhD
VIENNA - Some urologists continue to persist with the old methods of prostate biopsy and tumor detection, despite the benefits of MRI in visualizing the most aggressive parts of prostate tumor. But the situation is changing fast, according Dr. Jelle Barentsz, PhD, of University Hospital Nijmegen in the Netherlands, in a session on Friday at ECR 2013.
March 7, 2013
Collaboration among specialties enhances prospects of cancer patients
By
Becky McCall
VIENNA - Promoting more effective collaboration among radiologists, nuclear medicine physicians, and radiation oncologists to improve imaging and radiotherapy outcomes is a core principle underpinning the lectures in a special focus session on Friday at ECR 2013.
March 7, 2013
IMS presents breast tomosynthesis research at ECR
By
AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Italian women's imaging vendor Internazionale Medico Scientifica (IMS) is highlighting research on digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) using its Giotto device at ECR 2013.
March 6, 2013
FDG-PET/MRI 'comparable' to FDG-PET/CT in head/neck cancer
By
Wayne Forrest
VIENNA - FDG-PET/MRI can produce diagnostic quality images "comparable" to FDG-PET/CT in patients with head and neck cancer, according to a study presented on Thursday during the opening day of ECR 2013.
March 6, 2013
Outsourced CT reads reliable even for emergency department
By
Eric Barnes
VIENNA - Can a hospital turn its critical after-hours emergency reads over to a teleradiology provider without putting patients at risk? It most likely can, according to a U.K. study of more than 1,000 patients, in results presented on Thursday at ECR 2013.
March 6, 2013
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