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Will lecanemab approval increase PET scan volumes?

By Will Morton

The European nuclear medicine community could see increased demand for PET imaging if the monoclonal antibody lecanemab receives approval for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, according to the European Association for Nuclear Medicine.

March 8, 2023

Microwave ablation effective in treating thyroid microcarcinoma

By Amerigo Allegretto

Microwave ablation can effectively treat papillary thyroid microcarcinoma using ultrasound to identify capsular invasion -- an approach which has been typically avoided due to safety concerns, suggest findings published March 7 in Radiology.

March 7, 2023

Study confirms that vaccines reduce the severity of omicron COVID-19

By Kate Madden Yee

Vaccines are effective for reducing the severity of the omicron variant of COVID-19, according to a study published March 7 in Radiology.

March 7, 2023

AI autonomous reporting could improve workflows

By Will Morton

A commercially available artificial intelligence (AI) tool could significantly improve radiology workflows by autonomously reporting whether chest x-rays are normal or abnormal, according to a study published March 7 in Radiology.

March 7, 2023

PET reveals brain effects of nicotine in women

By Will Morton

PET imaging has revealed for the first time that nicotine appears to block a brain enzyme in women involved in estrogen production, according to a study published March 5 in Comprehensive Psychiatry.

March 6, 2023

CTPA shows that patients with omicron COVID-19 are at higher PE risk

By Kate Madden Yee

CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) shows that omicron COVID-19 increases patients' risk of pulmonary embolism (PE), according to research presented on March 5 at the ECR meeting in Vienna.

March 6, 2023

Viz.ai to use recruiting platform for pulmonary embolism trial

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Artificial intelligence (AI) software developer Viz.ai will use its Viz Recruit platform to help enroll patients in the National Institute of Health-funded Pulmonary Embolism-Thrombus Removal with Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis (PE-TRACT) clinical trial.

March 5, 2023

PCCT cuts CCTA radiation dose by more than a third

By Kate Madden Yee

Photon-counting CT (PCCT) reduces radiation dose for coronary CT angiography (CCTA) exams compared with dual-source CT by more than a third, according to research presented at the recent ECR in Vienna.

March 5, 2023

Video from ECR 2023: Meike Vernooij on population imaging

VIENNA - How does a professor of population imaging spend her day? And what makes Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, such a special place to work? Neuroradiologist Dr. Meike Vernooij, PhD, addressed these and other questions in an interview at ECR 2023.

March 4, 2023

Video from ECR 2023: Marie-Pierre Revel on lung cancer screening

VIENNA - CT lung cancer screening is gradually being introduced across much of Europe. We caught up with thoracic imaging specialist Marie-Pierre Revel, PhD, from Paris and asked her about the current and future status of screening and the growing role of artificial intelligence.

March 3, 2023

CT image training improves radiographers' COVID-19 diagnosis accuracy

By Kate Madden Yee

VIENNA - Radiographers' ability to accurately identify COVID-19 pneumonia can be improved by almost 15% through reviewing computer-based training sets of CT images, according to research presented at the ECR meeting.

March 3, 2023

Alpha Tau cleared to launch Alpha DaRT trial

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Israeli radiation therapy technology developer Alpha Tau Medical has received clearance in Canada to launch a trial of its Alpha DaRT treatment for liver cancer.

March 2, 2023

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