Body Imaging: Page 11

Ezra brings full-body MRI screening to Calif.

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Cancer screening startup Ezra has teamed with imaging services provider RadNet to launch its direct-to-consumer full-body MRI cancer screening program at eight new locations in California, marking the firm's expansion beyond its initial installed base in New York and New Jersey.

September 16, 2019

Kheiron launches AI software for breast cancer screening

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

U.K. start-up Kheiron Medical Technologies has launched Mia, its artificial intelligence (AI) software for breast cancer screening.

February 28, 2019

Dose monitoring optimizes whole-body CT in Italy

By Abraham Kim

By monitoring CT dose and adjusting protocols at their institution, researchers from Italy were able to identify the optimal parameters for reducing cancer patients' exposure to radiation from whole-body CT exams, without lowering image quality. They presented their findings on Wednesday at ECR 2019 in Vienna.

February 27, 2019

United Imaging gets FDA nod for total-body PET/CT unit

By Erik L. Ridley

Shanghai-based United Imaging Healthcare said it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for uExplorer, a total-body PET/CT scanner developed in collaboration with researchers from the University of California, Davis.

January 21, 2019

Cancer death rates decline, but economic gap remains

By Kate Madden Yee

The overall cancer death rate in the U.S. dropped by 27% over the past 25 years, but more needs to be done to reduce deaths among Americans of lower socioeconomic status, according to a report from the American Cancer Society published online January 7 in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.

January 8, 2019

High x-ray dose surges cancer risk in obese patients

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The elevated radiation dose needed to acquire x-ray images of obese patients more than doubles their risk of developing cancer, according to a study published online December 20, 2018, in the Journal of Radiological Protection.

January 1, 2019

AR 'smart glasses' facilitate interventional procedures

By Abraham Kim

Thursday, November 29 | 12:45 p.m.-1:15 p.m. | VI266-SD-THB1 | Lakeside, VI Community, Station 1A group from the U.S. National Institutes of Health has developed a technique that uses augmented reality (AR) technology to display virtual images of internal lesions directly on a patient during interventional radiology procedures.

November 5, 2018

Do inpatient body MRI scans prove their worth?

By Wayne Forrest

An internal review of inpatient body MRI scans by clinicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center showed room for improvement in a number of key performance areas, according to a study published online September 24 in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

September 30, 2018

3 reasons why trauma injuries are missed on whole-body CT

By Abraham Kim

There are three major characteristics that predict which patients presenting with multiple traumatic injuries will have their injury overlooked on a whole-body CT exam, according to an August 7 article in Radiology. Identifying these risk factors early could help improve injury detection.

August 8, 2018

Who reads lower-extremity MRI exams and why?

By Wayne Forrest

Most lower-extremity MRI exams are still interpreted by radiologists, but those that are read by nonradiologists are more likely to have been performed during the week and to be less complex cases, according to a study published online July 31 in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

August 2, 2018

Road to RSNA 2017: Women's Informatics Preview

By Wayne Forrest

RSNA 2017 might be remembered as the annual meeting when women's imaging took a quantum leap forward with the burgeoning utilization of artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and computer-aided detection/diagnosis.

November 8, 2017

MRI screening finds more cancer in Li-Fraumeni syndrome patients

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Researchers from the U.S. National Cancer Institute have discovered a greater-than-expected rate of cancer following baseline whole-body MRI screenings for people with Li-Fraumeni syndrome, according to a study published online August 3 in JAMA Oncology.

August 2, 2017

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