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Web-based radiology dashboard aids in practice management
By Erik L. Ridley
CHICAGO - A Web-based, real-time radiology dashboard can provide valuable information for radiology practice management, quality assurance, and patient care, according to research from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
November 30, 2008
PET/CT finds some lesions chest CT cannot
By Wayne Forrest
CHICAGO - PET/CT showed its prowess over CT by detecting additional lesions in 23% of all cancer patients who had a conventional thoracic CT, according to a presentation at the 2008 RSNA meeting.
November 30, 2008
MRgFUS effective, safe for outpatient fibroid treatment
By Edward Susman
CHICAGO - MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) can successfully destroy more than 50% of fibroids with little or no pain, researchers reported at the 2008 RSNA conference in Chicago.
November 30, 2008
Perfusion CT predicts tumor response to antiangiogenic treatment
By Charlene Laino
CHICAGO - Dynamic perfusion CT imaging enables early assessment of the antivascular effects of antiangiogenic treatment in patients with advanced rectal cancer, researchers reported on Sunday at the 2008 RSNA annual meeting.
November 30, 2008
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MRI helps predict breast cancer invasiveness at surgery
By Kate Madden Yee
CHICAGO - The use of breast MRI has increased by double-digits this year, a boost some industry watchers attribute to increased awareness of how the technology helps clinicians detect and treat breast cancer earlier in high-risk women.
November 30, 2008
CT, women's health pace Toshiba RSNA products
By Brian Casey
CHICAGO - New women's health products in several modalities are highlighted in the RSNA booth of Toshiba America Medical Systems, as the Tustin, CA, vendor also features recent research conducted with its 320-detector-row Aquilion One CT scanner.
November 29, 2008
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Cardiac stress MR tops SPECT, showing cause of chest pain
By Eric Barnes
CHICAGO - Johns Hopkins researchers found that cardiac stress MRI not only outperforms SPECT for detecting acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting to the emergency room with chest pain, it reveals important information about the cause of the pain, even when symptoms are unrelated to coronary artery disease.
November 29, 2008
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Radical robotic radiosurgery produces 'distinctive' PET/CT imaging pattern
By Wayne Forrest
CHICAGO - Researchers at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC, have found that radical robotic radiosurgery results in a "distinctive PET/CT imaging pattern" following treatment, which likely is related to high radiation doses delivered 1 cm or more around the tumor.
November 29, 2008
caBIG's archive and imaging-related software updates discussed
By Cynthia E. Keen
CHICAGO - The cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) Imaging Workspace is a national, multidisciplinary expert advisory board for the identification and prioritization of imaging informatics issues and projects. In only three years, this project is by far the biggest and most productive effort in imaging informatics today, according to Dr. Eliot Siegel at the RSNA annual meeting on Sunday.
November 29, 2008
Assessing response to chemotherapy: MRI bests mammography
By Kate Madden Yee
CHICAGO - MRI proves better than mammography for measuring breast tumor response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy, according to research performed at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and eight other U.S. academic institutions for the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) 6657 study.
November 29, 2008
Virtual Radiologic
By Cheryl Hall Harris, R.N.
(Booth 8324) Look for Minneapolis-based Virtual Radiologic to showcase vRad Enterprise Connect as a productivity solution for radiology groups and academic medical centers at this year's RSNA meeting.
November 10, 2008
USTeleradiology/USTelemammography
By Cheryl Hall Harris, R.N.
(Booth 2535) Atlanta-based USTeleradiology and USTelemammography will showcase their diversified business model, designed to offer daytime final-read subspecialty services for pediatrics, neuroradiology, mammography, and body scans by fellowship-trained radiologists.
November 10, 2008
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