Head and Neck Radiology: Page 27

ASTRO: RT alone helps relieve dysphagia

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radiation therapy (RT) alone is as effective as radiation therapy combined with chemotherapy for decreasing swallowing complications experienced by advanced esophageal cancer patients, according to research presented at this week's American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) meeting in San Francisco.

September 15, 2014

ASTRO: Manuka honey no help for esophagitis pain

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Don't depend on manuka honey to relieve esophagitis pain due to radiation therapy, according to a study presented at this week's American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) annual meeting in San Francisco.

September 14, 2014

Elastography may avoid needless biopsies of thyroid nodules

By Erik L. Ridley

Thanks to its high negative predictive value, ultrasound elastography with intrinsic compression may be able to reduce by one-third the number of unnecessary biopsies performed on calcified thyroid nodules, according to research published in the October issue of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology.

September 9, 2014

Insurance status affects imaging use for acute stroke

By Kate Madden Yee

Patients' insurance status and the socioeconomic factors that may be connected to it influence the type of imaging they receive when they present with acute ischemic stroke, according to a new study published in the August issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

July 28, 2014

AAPM: Radiomics helps fine-tune radiation therapy dose

By Wayne Forrest

By extracting statistical information and other measurements from PET images using a data analysis technique called radiomics, researchers have developed a way to determine radiation therapy dose more accurately, according to a study presented this week at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) meeting.

July 23, 2014

USPSTF still against US carotid artery stenosis screening

By Erik L. Ridley

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has finalized its draft recommendation advising against the use of widespread ultrasound screening for asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis as a tool for stroke prevention.

July 7, 2014

FDA approves new Lymphoseek indication

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Navidea Biopharmaceuticals' Lymphoseek radiopharmaceutical to help determine the extent of head and neck cancer.

June 12, 2014

SRU guidelines would catch nearly all incidental thyroid cancers

By Erik L. Ridley

Very few incidentally detected thyroid cancers would be missed if recommendations from the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound (SRU) for thyroid nodules were followed. What's more, the nodules not worked up are unlikely to become a problem, according to research published in the June issue of Radiology.

June 4, 2014

Patients can be identified based on 3D reconstructions

By Erik L. Ridley

3D surface reconstructions can produce beautiful renderings of a patient's face. So beautiful that individuals could potentially, although not easily, be identified just from their reconstructed CT scan, according to a study published in the June issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

June 2, 2014

PET/MRI holds its own for esophageal cancer staging

By Wayne Forrest

The benefits of PET/MRI may be expanding to esophageal cancer, according to a study published online May 27 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Korean researchers found that the hybrid modality matched endoscopic ultrasound for staging tumors.

June 1, 2014

Biodex installs Atomlab 960 at Mayo

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Biodex Medical Systems has installed its Atomlab 960 thyroid uptake system at the Mayo Clinic Foundation in Scottsdale, AZ.

May 27, 2014

Merge to launch retinal screening package

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Merge Healthcare plans to release a retinal screening device, the company announced.

April 24, 2014

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