Pediatric Radiology: Page 25

Digisonics launches website for Zika-related brain disease

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Image management firm Digisonics has created an online calculator that can determine the risk of microcephaly for a fetus whose mother had Zika based on gestational age and imaging data.

July 9, 2018

Time-of-flight PET can reduce radiation dose in pediatrics

By Wayne Forrest

By adding a time-of-flight technique to pediatric PET scans, clinicians can adjust radiation dose levels by as much as 50% with no discernible loss of diagnostic image quality, according to a study presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging annual meeting in Philadelphia.

July 8, 2018

MRI brain scans show benefits of prenatal folic acid

By Wayne Forrest

MRI scans show that adolescents whose mothers received food enriched with folic acid while they were pregnant have enhanced brain development and a reduced risk of psychosis and other mental illnesses as they progress toward adulthood, according to a study published online July 3 in JAMA Psychiatry.

July 3, 2018

Macrocyclic GBCA shows no signal increase in kids

By Wayne Forrest

Five or more doses of the macrocyclic gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA) gadobutrol resulted in no increase in T1-weighted signal-intensity ratios in the globus pallidus or dentate nucleus of pediatric patients, a sign of no gadolinium deposition in these patients, according to a June 26 paper in Radiology.

June 29, 2018

Bracco's SonoVue ultrasound contrast cleared in China

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Contrast developer Bracco Imaging has received clearance from Chinese regulators for the use of its SonoVue (sulphur hexafluoride microbubbles) ultrasound contrast agent in ultrasonography of the urinary tract.

June 19, 2018

ASL-MRI connects kidney and cognitive dysfunction

By Wayne Forrest

Using arterial spin labeling (ASL) MRI, researchers have found that increased cerebral blood flow in children and young adults with chronic kidney disease correlates with subsequent decreased cognitive function, according to a study published online June 12 in Radiology.

June 12, 2018

SIIM: CDS guides appropriate pediatric head CT orders

By Erik L. Ridley

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD - A clinical decision-support (CDS) algorithm can help reduce the percentage of inappropriate pediatric head CT studies being ordered in the emergency department, according to a study presented on Friday at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting.

June 1, 2018

New statement defines abusive head trauma in kids

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

A coalition of nine physician groups has issued a consensus statement to define what constitutes abusive head trauma in children. The group hopes the statement will clarify the injuries of abusive head trauma and serve as a tool for the legal system in cases of child abuse.

May 30, 2018

Steatosis complicates MR elastography for liver fibrosis

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

MR elastography is better at distinguishing between lower and higher stages of liver fibrosis in pediatric patients without steatosis than in those with the condition, according to a study published in the June issue of Radiology.

May 22, 2018

Fetal MRI can spot early brain abnormality

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

MRI scans can reliably detect a severe brain condition in fetuses as early as the 18th week of gestation, according to a study published online May 18 in the American Journal of Medical Genetics.

May 21, 2018

US guide identifies pediatric thyroid biopsy candidates

By Kate Madden Yee

Ultrasound guidelines developed by the American College of Radiology can be trusted to accurately identify pediatric patients who should be biopsied for thyroid cancer, according to research presented on May 18 at the Society for Pediatric Radiology meeting in Nashville, TN.

May 18, 2018

Ultrasound finds more pneumonia than x-ray

By Kate Madden Yee

Lung ultrasound finds more cases of pneumonia in children and young adults than chest radiography does, according to a study published online on May 11 in the journal Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology.

May 17, 2018

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