Thoracic Imaging: Page 14

Digital chest x-ray technique improves detection of lung lesions

By Will Morton

Adding bone-suppression functions to digital chest x-ray exams can assist doctors with the detection of subtle pulmonary lesions, according to a research group in Japan.

January 19, 2023

Community health advisors improve LDCT lung cancer screening rates

By Kate Madden Yee

Community health advisors can increase the uptake of low-dose CT (LDCT) lung cancer screening among populations vulnerable to the disease, a study published January 18 in the Journal of Cancer Education has found.

January 18, 2023

AI could help emergency physicians triage patients with chest pain

By Will Morton

An artificial intelligence (AI) model could help emergency department doctors triage patients with symptoms of acute chest pain syndrome, according to a study published online January 17 in Radiology.

January 17, 2023

Ferrum Health adds $6M to coffers

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Artificial intelligence (AI) software developer Ferrum Health has raised $6 million in a new funding round.

January 12, 2023

X-ray reveals live grenade in Ukrainian soldier

By Will Morton

Doctors in Ukraine have removed a potentially explosive grenade from inside a soldier after detecting the device on a chest x-ray, according to military officials.

January 9, 2023

FDA approves Polarean's Xenoview

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Polarean's Xenoview, a drug-device combination that uses xenon-129 gas with MRI to visualize and quantify regional lung function.

January 3, 2023

Deep learning helps CT better evaluate lung fibrosis

By Kate Madden Yee

A deep-learning algorithm boosts CT imaging's performance when it comes to assessing patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, according to research presented at the RSNA meeting in Chicago.

December 28, 2022

PCCT outperforms conventional CT for pulmonary embolism diagnosis

By Kate Madden Yee

Photon-counting CT (PCCT) pulmonary angiography imaging outperforms conventional CT for diagnosing pulmonary embolism -- cutting radiation dose in half, according to research presented at the RSNA meeting in Chicago.

December 26, 2022

How effective is CT for diagnosing interstitial lung disease?

By Kate Madden Yee

There are particular CT findings that correlate with histologic data and identify early interstitial lung abnormalities, but sometimes findings that appear normal on CT are abnormal on histopathology, European researchers have found.

December 20, 2022

Dark-field chest x-ray picks up lung inflation signals

By Will Morton

Dark-field chest x-ray could be useful for determining optimum mechanical ventilation pressure to use in hospitalized patients, according to researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

December 19, 2022

PET reveals risk of cardiovascular events in pneumonia patient

By Will Morton

FDG-PET/CT scans have shown that vascular inflammation may be a trigger for high rates of heart attack and other adverse events in patients with pneumonia, according to a study published online December 14 in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.

December 18, 2022

Chest x-ray tool visualizes COVID-19 pneumonia

By Will Morton

A newly updated chest x-ray imaging score could be a valuable tool for measuring the severity of COVID-19 pneumonia, according to research published online December 5 in Scientific Reports.

December 14, 2022

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