Pediatric Radiology: Page 83

Biospace Med nets EOS sale
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
French digital radiography firm Biospace Med has received an order from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
January 11, 2009
CT coronal reconstructions aid pediatric appendicitis diagnosis
By Cynthia E. Keen
Adding coronal reformatted images to axial images in MDCT exams can improve the diagnosis of appendicitis in children, radiologists from Gachon University Gil Medical Center in Incheon, South Korea, have determined.
January 11, 2009
Study calculates radiation dose risk for infants in Belgian NICU
By Cynthia E. Keen
A Belgian study has shed additional light on the amount of radiation dose delivered to infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The research provides reference values for NICU radiation dose, and also offers guidance on collecting dose measurements and converting them into organ-dose values.
January 7, 2009
Pediatric Hodgkin's survivors face high risk of breast cancer as young adults
By Cynthia E. Keen
Girls who received treatment for Hodgkin's disease between 1960 and 1990 and are now adult women have a 37-fold increased risk of developing breast cancer compared to the general population. The U.S. study also found that these patients had a high likelihood of developing bilateral breast cancer at an early age.
December 29, 2008
Multislice CT beats aortography for pediatric thoracic aortic coarctation
By Caitanya Min
Results from a study by Tunisian researchers indicate that compared with invasive contrast aortography, 64-slice CT is the imaging modality of choice for pediatric patients with thoracic aortic coarctation.
December 24, 2008
AAPM approves Image Gently work group agenda
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Image Gently Pediatric CT Physics Work Group has received formal consensus approval from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) to proceed with its work to establish consistency among CT scanner equipment measuring pediatric radiation dose.
December 22, 2008
Radiation dose awareness leads to drop in pediatric CT usage
By Cynthia E. Keen
The campaign to reduce radiation dose exposure to children is working, at least at two of the largest academic children's hospitals in the U.S. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center reported that CT volume has declined in the past two years, even as overall imaging increased.
December 11, 2008
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Smaller teens sometimes get adult-sized CT dose, study finds
By Cynthia E. Keen
Techniques for performing a CT exam on a teenager need to be determined by size and body mass, rather than by age, to reduce radiation dose, researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina advise in a poster presented at the recent RSNA meeting.
December 10, 2008
AuntMinnie.com Pediatric Insider
By Cynthia E. Keen
December 8, 2008
Flat-panel CT finds early signs of bone damage in anorexics
By Cynthia E. Keen
The higher resolution of a prototype flat-panel volume CT scanner has enabled U.S. researchers to detect changes in the bone structure of girls with anorexia nervosa, even before declines in bone mineral density are evident.
December 8, 2008
Radiologists identify, successfully treat new form of self-injury
By Charlene Laino
CHICAGO - Radiologists are in a unique position to diagnose and treat a newly identified psychiatric disorder in which patients jam paper clips, staples, pencil lead, and other foreign objects into their bodies, according to a presentation at the 2008 RSNA meeting.
December 2, 2008
3-tesla MRI both challenges and rewards pediatric radiologists
By Cynthia E. Keen
CHICAGO - After performing more than 2,500 3-tesla MRI exams of children in a 12-month period, radiologists affiliated with Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children described the challenges and experiences they encountered in a poster presented at the 2008 RSNA annual meeting.
December 1, 2008
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