Abdominal Imaging: Page 6

Photon-counting CT just as good as MRI for quantifying liver fat

By Kate Madden Yee

Photon-counting CT (PCCT) performs just as well as MRI for quantifying liver fat in obese patients and can enable opportunistic screening for fatty liver disease, according to research results delivered at the recent RSNA meeting in Chicago.

December 27, 2022

Ascelia touts MRI contrast agent study

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Ascelia Pharma is highlighting results from a study presented at the RSNA meeting in Chicago that shows the effect of food intake on the absorption and signal intensity of its manganese-based MRI contrast agent for liver indications, Orviglance.

December 18, 2022

Fast acquisition techniques cut SPECT/CT bone scan times by half

By Will Morton

Whole-body SPECT/CT bone scan times to detect metastatic tumors in prostate cancer patients could be cut by half with the use of faster acquisition techniques, according to a study published December 12 in EJNMMI Physics.

December 18, 2022

PCCT reduces abdominal imaging radiation dose by almost 20%

By Kate Madden Yee

Photon-counting CT (PCCT) not only improves image quality for arterial phase abdominal scans compared to conventional CT, but it also reduces radiation dose by almost 20%, according to research presented at the 2022 RSNA meeting.

December 15, 2022

MRI-targeted prostate biopsy protocol halves overdiagnosis

By Kate Madden Yee

A prostate cancer biopsy protocol based on targeted MRI rather than systemic ultrasound shows promise for reducing overdiagnosis by half, according to study results published December 8 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

December 7, 2022

Does contrast-enhanced CT boost kids' acute kidney injury risk?

By Kate Madden Yee

Does contrast-enhanced CT boost the incidence of acute kidney injury in children? It doesn't seem so, according to a study published December 6 in Radiology.

December 7, 2022

CT radiomics show disparities in colorectal cancer treatment efficacy

By Kate Madden Yee

CT radiomics data show significant associations between race and ethnicity and treatment efficacy for metastatic colorectal cancer, according to research presented at the RSNA meeting.

December 6, 2022

Radiomic features on CT help classify ovarian cancer subtypes

By Amerigo Allegretto

Radiomic features extracted from contrast-enhanced CT can help classify subtypes of epithelial ovarian cancer, a study published December 5 in JAMA Network Open found.

December 5, 2022

Ultrasound shows long-term liver injury in COVID-19 patients

By Will Morton

CHICAGO - COVID-19 patients who underwent ultrasound shear-wave elastography showed increased liver stiffness up to 10 months after infection, according to research presented December 1 at RSNA 2022.

November 30, 2022

Elastography parameters help diagnosis liver disease

By Amerigo Allegretto

CHICAGO - Combining parameters from 2D shear-wave elastography can help assess hepatic characteristics in patients with biopsy-proven nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, suggests research shown at the RSNA annual meeting.

November 30, 2022

Short MRI plus CT identifies colorectal cancer liver metastases

By Kate Madden Yee

CHICAGO - An abbreviated MRI protocol combined with contrast-enhanced CT performs comparably to a standard MRI exam for identifying liver metastases in colorectal cancer patients, according to research presented November 30 at the RSNA meeting.

November 30, 2022

Deep learning plus CT bests EHR for identifying sarcopenia

By Kate Madden Yee

CHICAGO - A deep-learning algorithm that flags sarcopenia-related terms in CT imaging reports identifies incidence of the condition more accurately than electronic health record data does, according to research presented November 29 at the RSNA meeting.

November 29, 2022

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