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PET shows aerobic exercise has little effect on amyloid

By Wayne Forrest

While aerobic exercise is good for the cardiovascular system, PET images show a weekly regimen of this activity does nothing to change the status of beta-amyloid buildup in older adults with elevated levels of the marker for Alzheimer's disease, according to a study published online January 14 in PLOS One.

January 19, 2021

Image Information Systems adds cardiology measurements

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

PACS firm Image Information Systems said it has incorporated cardiology measurement functionality into its iQ-Web PACS software.

January 18, 2021

UCSF deploys AI-powered portable x-ray system

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The University of California, San Francisco (USCF) said it has begun clinical use of GE Healthcare's Optima XR240amx mobile x-ray system, which features artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms developed in partnership with researchers from the university's Center for Intelligent Imaging.

January 18, 2021

AI, radiomics predicts prostate cancer recurrence

By Erik L. Ridley

A diagnostic model that incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) analysis of radiomics features on multiparametric MRI can predict the likelihood of prostate cancer recurrence prior to surgical treatment, enabling preoperative risk stratification of patients, according to research published in the January issue of EBioMedicine.

January 18, 2021

Perspectum's 'long COVID' MRI software cleared in U.K.

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Perspectum's software enabling the detection on MRI scans of organ damage due to "long COVID" has been cleared by the U.K.'s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.

January 17, 2021

HIV drugs correlate with lower brain volumes on MRI

By Rebekah Moan

One of the largest-ever neuroimaging studies of individuals with HIV used MRI to reveal that lower current CD4+ T-cell counts were associated with smaller hippocampal and thalamic volumes in the brain. Also, the subset of participants not receiving treatment had smaller putamen volumes, according to findings published January 15 in JAMA Network Open.

January 15, 2021

Blue Earth eyes new uses for fluciclovine F-18

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Bracco molecular imaging subsidiary Blue Earth Diagnostics announced that the first patient has been dosed in a phase III clinical study examining the use of its Axumin (fluciclovine fluorine-18, F-18) PET radiopharmaceutical for detecting recurrent brain metastases.

January 14, 2021

CT radiomics classifies small nodules found in CT lung screening

By Erik L. Ridley

A machine-learning algorithm can be highly accurate for classifying very small lung nodules found in low-dose CT lung screening programs, according to a poster presentation at this week's American Association for Cancer Research Virtual Special Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Diagnosis, and Imaging.

January 14, 2021

How many cancers were missed during the COVID-19 pandemic?

By Theresa Pablos

Cancer diagnoses declined by double digits at a prominent Boston healthcare system during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020, according to an analysis published on January 14 in JAMA Oncology. Researchers estimated more than 1,400 lesions could have been missed in a three-month period.

January 13, 2021

Thyroid cancer screening hits the right note

By Theresa Pablos

Researchers from France discovered a thyroid cancer screening technique that hit all the right notes. The method can noninvasively detect abnormally stiff tissues on ultrasound when participants sing the "eeee" sound, according to a January 12 study in Applied Physics Letters.

January 12, 2021

Turner Imaging collaborates with MGH

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

X-ray technology developer Turner Imaging Systems has formed a research collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston.

January 12, 2021

PET/CT guidance offers valuable approach to lung biopsies

By Wayne Forrest

One optimum way to reduce inconclusive lung biopsy results and better detect malignancies is to use FDG-PET/CT for the image-guided procedure. Researchers from Brazil found that PET/CT had advantages over conventional CT guidance.

January 12, 2021

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