Abdominal Imaging: Page 53

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

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

VC excels at diverticulosis staging

By Eric Barnes

Although virtual colonoscopy practice has always focused on adenoma detection and colon cancer prevention, the exam is proving to be formidable in the staging of diverticular disease, a scourge of fast-food Western nations that affects most of their citizens by age 60.

September 27, 2009

Philips, Celsion research program moves forward

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Philips Healthcare and oncology drug developer Celsion said that their joint research program has moved into the preclinical development stage.

September 23, 2009

Pancreatic MDCT characterizes IPMNs

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

New research from Shanghai combines MDCT with CT angiography and multiplanar volume or curved reformations to characterize intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs) with high sensitivity. The study, published in the World Journal of Gastroenterology, addresses MDCT's role in predicting malignancy of IPMNs preoperatively.

September 16, 2009

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