Pediatric Radiology: Page 49

PACS downtime plan improves business continuity, uptime
By Erik L. Ridley
Nobody likes downtime, particularly with a critical system such as PACS. But the effects of PACS outages have been significantly lessened at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, which adopted a new comprehensive business continuity process based on a dedicated backup PACS that's only used during downtime.
June 19, 2013
SNMMI: FET-PET aids pediatric brain cancer patients
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PET imaging with F-18 fluoroethyl-tyrosine (FET) PET can add relevant clinical information for treatment planning and monitoring of children and young adults with brain cancer when MR images are equivocal, according to a study presented at this week's Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) meeting.
June 13, 2013
JAMA Pediatrics: CT scans put children at higher cancer risk
By Eric Barnes
A landmark study that tracked pediatric CT radiation doses in large health maintenance organizations across the U.S. found that the volume of CT scans nearly doubled between 1996 and 2005, and that the scans may put young patients at greater risk of future cancer, according to JAMA Pediatrics.
June 9, 2013
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3D-printed tracheal splint from CT scan saves life
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
University of Michigan researchers said they saved a baby's life with the aid of a customized tracheal splint manufactured on a 3D printer using image data from a CT scan, in a case reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.
May 21, 2013
MRI shows premature birth interrupts brain development
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Using diffusion MRI, researchers from King's College London have found that the disruption of crucial developmental processes in the brain due to premature birth can negatively affect cognitive function. Study results were published online May 21 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
May 20, 2013
CAD helps detect and treat skull fusion in infants
By Erik L. Ridley
Computer-aided detection (CAD) technology can be an invaluable tool for quantitative diagnosis and treatment planning of craniosynostosis, or premature fusion of skull sutures in infants, researchers from Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC, have found.
May 19, 2013
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Lancet: MRI offers alternative to conventional autopsies
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Minimally invasive autopsies, using a combination of MRI and other techniques such as blood tests, can determine the cause of death in fetuses and babies nearly as well as conventional autopsies, researchers concluded in a new study published in Lancet.
May 15, 2013
Philips sells 1st PET/MRI to children's hospital
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Texas Children's Hospital announced it will be the first children's hospital in the U.S. to use a PET/MRI scanner (Philips Healthcare).
April 29, 2013
CT postprocessing can aid evaluation of pediatric airways
By Erik L. Ridley
Because it's noninvasive and doesn't require anesthesia, CT postprocessing offers significant advantages over the gold standard of bronchoscopy for evaluating pediatric airways. Yet there are even more benefits, according to an article published recently in Pediatric Radiology.
March 31, 2013
Radiologists return to Haiti to provide education
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Expert radiologists and representatives from five imaging societies will be on hand in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 25 and 26 to provide a series of didactic lectures and hands-on ultrasound training focusing on pediatric imaging.
March 19, 2013
CT pioneers spell out how to reduce patients' anxiety over dose
By Philip Ward
VIENNA - Justification is radiology's trump card in the increasingly tough battle to win back public confidence and reassure patients over the benefits of CT. That was certainly the strong impression given by two opinion leaders at Friday's special focus session at ECR 2013.
March 8, 2013
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Study confirms diminished use of pediatric trauma CT
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The use of CT exams in pediatric trauma patients has declined or stayed the same for most clinical applications over the past decade, according to an analysis published online February 25 in Radiology.
February 28, 2013
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