Abdominal Imaging: Page 52

DAAS scale predicts necrotizing enterocolitis severity in infants
By Cynthia E. Keen
Duke University researchers have developed a 10-point Duke abdominal assessment scale (DAAS) that can simplify the review of multiple abdominal x-ray reports of infants with clinical symptoms of necrotizing enterocolitis, helping to predict the severity of the disease.
December 29, 2009
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ASIR cuts dose in Crohn's disease patients
By Eric Barnes
CHICAGO - Low-dose abdominal CT images reconstructed with an adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction (ASIR) technique are equivalent -- and, in fact, slightly better in quality -- than standard-dose images reconstructed with filtered back projection.
December 3, 2009
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Liver metastases more conspicuous at low-energy DSCT
By Eric Barnes
CHICAGO - Hypovascular liver lesions are better visualized at lower photon energies in dual-source CT (DSCT), say researchers from New York City.
December 2, 2009
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CT scans sent to iPhone can make appendicitis diagnoses
By Edward Susman
CHICAGO - The child has lower right abdominal pain. A resident suspects appendicitis, but she wants to make sure ... Yep, there's an app for that. Researchers found that CT images sent via iPhone technology with $19.99 software are precise enough for correct diagnoses in 124 of 125 trials of the procedure.
December 1, 2009
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Cadens touts VC offering
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Cadens Imaging is launching its Cadens Colon software for virtual colonoscopy at this week's RSNA meeting in Chicago.
November 29, 2009
Limit CT exams for appendicitis in kids
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
When emergency physicians are empowered to make pragmatic clinical decisions about children with symptoms of appendicitis, they may be inclined to avoid ordering CT exams as a component of the diagnostic workup.
November 23, 2009
GE to debut MR elastography
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has introduced MR-Touch, an MR elastography technique based on technology licensed from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.
November 23, 2009
Merge to show liver MRI CAD app
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Merge Healthcare said that it will be presenting a liver application of its CADstream MRI computer-aided detection (CAD) software at the 2009 RSNA meeting in Chicago.
November 15, 2009
PET/CT beats 3-tesla MRI for staging colon cancer patients
By Wayne Forrest
Friday, December 4 | 10:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | SST05-02 | Room E353CCall it a clash of imaging titans: 3-tesla MRI and PET/CT face off over the staging of colon cancer patients in this study to be presented in the scientific sessions by Italian researchers, who found that PET/CT is more accurate than whole-body MRI.
November 2, 2009
Ultrasonido más eficaz que la escintigrafia en estudio de la función vesicular
By Erik L. Ridley
La ecografía es más económica, reproducible y rápida que la escintigrafía en el estudio de la función vesicular con colecistoquinina (CCK), según una investigación publicada en el número de septiembre de la Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.
November 1, 2009
Ultrasound good test for pediatric intussusception
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Ultrasound is a sensitive and specific test to detect ileocolic intussusception, the most common cause of intestinal obstruction among children and one of the most common abdominal emergencies in pediatrics. But how reliable is this diagnostic test if pediatric sonographers and pediatric radiologists aren't available to perform the procedure?
October 15, 2009
Endovascular AAA repair cuts short-term risk
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Patients who received endovascular repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) had a lower risk of death in the first 30 days after the procedure compared to patients who underwent an open repair, but both procedures had similar rates of death after two years.
October 12, 2009
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