Chest Radiology: Page 153

Medspira adds Breath Hold to Philips BrightView XCT
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Respiratory motion monitoring technology developer Medspira has collaborated with Philips Healthcare to offer its Breath Hold interactive breath control monitoring system as an option with Philips' BrightView XCT SPECT/CT systems.
November 28, 2011
Varian reports 1st motion review use
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems said that the University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System is the first medical center in the world to utilize its intrafraction motion review technology to continuously monitor tumor location during radiosurgery for lung cancer.
November 21, 2011
Lung group lauds low-dose CT for cancer detection
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Highlighting the validation of low-dose CT scans for screening high-risk patients, the nonprofit organization Lung Cancer Alliance is reporting significant improvement for early lung cancer detection in its annual National Report Card on Lung Cancer.
November 20, 2011
Ultrasound aids imaging of pediatric pneumonia
By Erik L. Ridley
Tuesday, November 29 | 4:10 p.m.-4:20 p.m. | MSVP32-07 | Room S102ABUltrasound is a useful imaging modality for evaluating childhood pneumonia, a German team has concluded.
November 13, 2011
RadLex needs to add more terminology for chest radiography
By Cynthia E. Keen
Thursday, December 1 | 11:00 a.m.-11:10 a.m. | SSQ07-04 | Room S402ABThis scientific presentation will evaluate the question of whether RadLex, the RSNA-sponsored reference ontology of radiology terms, is complete enough for use in reporting of chest radiographs, a commonly performed exam with a relatively defined group of terms associated with it.
November 10, 2011
Extent of perfusion defects predicts PE outcomes
By Eric Barnes
Monday, November 28 | 3:30 p.m.-3:40 p.m. | SSE05-04 | Room S404CDQuantifying perfusion defects at dual-energy CT helps identify pulmonary embolism (PE) patients at risk of adverse outcomes and should be part of their risk assessment, say investigators from the University of Munich.
November 9, 2011
High-pitch, free-breathing DSCT improves pulmonary embolism assessment
By Eric Barnes
Monday, November 28 | 11:20 a.m.-11:30 a.m. | MSVE21-10 | Room E353AHigh-pitch CT pulmonary angiography with dual-source CT (DSCT) in freely breathing patients consistently provides diagnostic image quality, suppresses artifacts, and has the potential to further reduce contrast material usage, according to new research from Goethe University.
November 9, 2011
FDG-PET/CT shows steroid therapy impact on pulmonary nodules
By Wayne Forrest
Monday, November 28 | 11:40 a.m.-11:50 a.m. | SSC14-08 | Room S505ABA pilot study at Children's Hospital of Michigan is seeking to determine whether 40 hours of steroid therapy can help characterize equivocal pulmonary nodules in FDG-PET/CT scans.
November 7, 2011
Study questions SUVmax role in solitary pulmonary nodule malignancy
By Wayne Forrest
Monday, November 28 | 11:20 a.m.-11:30 a.m. | SSC14-06 | Room S505ABResearchers at Thomas Jefferson University are challenging the traditional belief that a decrease in glucose metabolism demonstrated by a solitary pulmonary nodule during the delayed phase of dual-point FDG-PET/CT indicates that the nodule is benign.
November 7, 2011
FDG-PET/CT predicts early response to chemo in NSCLC patients
By Wayne Forrest
Monday, November 28 | 11:00 a.m.-11:10 a.m. | SSC14-04 | Room S505ABFDG-PET/CT is showing its prowess in predicting non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tumor metabolic response and length of survival one and five weeks after the start of chemotherapy treatment.
November 7, 2011
iPad proves up for challenge of detecting pneumothorax
By Erik L. Ridley
Tuesday, November 29 | 10:10 a.m.-10:20 a.m. | MSVR31-08 | Room N228In this paper, researchers found the iPad held its own in a comparison study with a PACS workstation for detecting pneumothorax on chest radiographs.
November 6, 2011
iPad holds up well for tuberculosis screening
By Erik L. Ridley
Tuesday, November 29 | 10:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | MSVR31-11 | Room N228In this presentation, researchers from the University of Maryland will discuss how interpretations of radiography-based tuberculosis screenings on an iPad showed strong agreement with those on a traditional display.
November 6, 2011
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