Pediatric Radiology: Page 84

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
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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
MEG reveals sound processing delays in autistic children
By Charlene Laino
CHICAGO - Using magnetoencephalography (MEG), researchers have found that children with autism react to sound an average of 20 msec slower than other children -- a finding that may help to explain the language and communication impairments associated with the disorder.
December 1, 2008
NeuroLogica launches CT dose-reduction technology
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Portable CT developer NeuroLogica launched a new noise/dose reduction algorithm designed to maintain high spatial resolution while reducing image noise for low-dose CT scans at this week's RSNA conference in Chicago.
November 29, 2008
Parents sue California hospital over pediatric CT radiation overdose
By Cynthia E. Keen
A rural California hospital is being sued by parents of a child who underwent a CT exam during an emergency department visit for a neck injury. The parents allege that their 23-month-old boy received radiation burns and has permanent chromosomal damage due to excessive radiation exposure from the CT scan, which took over an hour to perform.
November 19, 2008
Obesity's toll on children; new CT lung screening study
By Brian Casey
November 12, 2008
DWI-MRI predicts pediatric brain trauma outcomes
By Cynthia E. Keen
Diffusion-weighted MR imaging (DWI-MRI) can detect injury in children presenting with traumatic brain injury, even if other neurological signs appear normal, according to the results of a new study. The research demonstrates that DWI is predictive of long-term outcomes in pediatric patients.
November 12, 2008
Overweight kids have worse cardiac ventricular function
By Charlene Laino
NEW ORLEANS - Using a speckle tracking-based analysis tool that can analyze 2D data from ultrasound scanners, Australian researchers have shown that overweight and obese children have worse left ventricular function than their normal-weight counterparts, according to research presented at this week's American Heart Association (AHA) meeting.
November 12, 2008
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