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UCLA group cuts unnecessary x-rays for pelvic trauma

By Brian Casey

A group from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) was able to slash the number of unnecessary stat portable pelvic radiography studies that were being performed in addition to CT scans for trauma patients, according to an article in the September issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

September 10, 2015

Structured MRI reporting; PET/MRI for kids; CT colonography's value

By Brian Casey

September 9, 2015

Optical colonoscopy misses polyps detected on CTC

By Eric Barnes

More than 20% of polyps detected at CT colonography (CTC) may be missed at subsequent optical colonoscopy, according to a study in Radiology. What's more, most of the missed polyps were large and clinically significant.

September 9, 2015

EOS adds to NYC installed base

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Orthopedic digital imaging developer EOS Imaging has delivered a second EOS digital radiography (DR) system to the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.

September 9, 2015

Low-risk cases fuel rising thyroid cancer rates

By Brian Casey

The rapid increase in the number of thyroid cancers diagnosed over the past decade is being driven by low-risk cases that would never pose a health threat to patients -- and one-third of these are asymptomatic cases being diagnosed with advanced medical imaging, according to a new study.

September 8, 2015

PET/MRI can be a boon for pediatric cancer patients

By Wayne Forrest

Young pediatric patients may benefit from FDG-PET/MRI for staging and clinically evaluating oncologic disorders, given the hybrid modality's superior soft-tissue contrast and significantly lower radiation dose, according to a study published online August 24 in Investigative Radiology.

September 8, 2015

ImaginAb highlights prostate imaging trial

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Imaging agent developer ImaginAb is touting interim results from a phase II clinical trial of its IAB2M imaging agent for managing prostate cancer.

September 7, 2015

Cardiac cath shows risk of spasms at coronary stenoses

By Brian Casey

Japanese researchers using coronary angiography discovered that patients with spasms near sites of coronary stenosis had a higher risk of experiencing a heart attack in the future, according to an article in the September 8 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

September 7, 2015

Liver metastases tracking software shows high accuracy

By Eric Barnes

Tracking liver metastases on follow-up CT scans is a critical task for clinicians, but the process is time-consuming and often inefficient. A new automated method for detecting and segmenting liver metastases may help, according to an article published online in the Journal of Medical Imaging.

September 3, 2015

VirtualScopics supports African study

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Clinical trial imaging services provider VirtualScopics is collaborating with a large pharmaceutical firm on an epidemiology study in Africa.

September 2, 2015

From coins to knives: Foreign bodies run the gamut

By Kate Madden Yee

A patient presenting with a foreign body -- an object that has been swallowed, breathed in, or inserted -- is a common scene in the emergency room (ER). And radiologists are just the experts to coach ER doctors on how to diagnose these patients, according to a review published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.

September 2, 2015

Patients with CIN after CT show poor 1-year outcomes

By Eric Barnes

Patients who develop contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) are at high risk of major adverse events one year after imaging with contrast-enhanced CT, according to a new study in the September Annals of Emergency Medicine. The experience in more than 600 patients who underwent contrast CT suggests the problem is both serious and underrecognized.

September 1, 2015

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