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French group advocates CT for COVID-19 diagnosis
By Kate Madden Yee
Investigators from Poitiers University Hospital have proposed that chest CT is a valuable investigation for initial diagnosis of COVID-19. Their findings appear to challenge current guidelines that have opposed the initial use of CT for COVID-19.
September 7, 2020
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CT shows how rod skewered woman's body
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
CT images have shown how a long, steel rod skewered a Chinese woman who fell from a 3-meter platform and nearly died. The images and story were reported in a 2 September story from the Daily Telegraph in Australia.
September 3, 2020
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U.K. issues advice on post-Brexit device regulations
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The U.K. government has produced detailed guidance on how to place manufactured goods on the market in post-Brexit U.K.
September 2, 2020
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NHS Trust adds CT scanner to meet COVID-19 demand
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust in the U.K. will be receiving a relocatable CT scan unit as part of NHS England's COVID-19 recovery plan.
September 1, 2020
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Illicit drug use: Dublin team turns to imaging
By Edna Astbury-Ward, PhD
MRI is the modality of choice for suspected bone or joint complications arising from injected drug use, while CT and ultrasound play a key role in assessing soft tissue and vascular issues, Irish researchers have reported. Illicit drug use is a major healthcare problem associated with numerous multisystem complications, they say.
August 31, 2020
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RCR pinpoints regional workforce disparities in U.K.
By Philip Ward
The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) has published a series of reports highlighting significant national and regional staffing variations that persist across the U.K. Individual documents for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales also show the scale of radiologist shortages in each country.
August 26, 2020
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U.K. to resume IR(ME)R inspections
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The U.K. has announced that quality care agencies in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales will resume Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations (IR(ME)R) inspections.
August 24, 2020
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French make optimum use of CT for COVID-19 triage
By Frances Rylands-Monk
Researchers in Lyon, France, have shown that chest CT is a rapid and fairly reliable tool for referring patients in need of hospitalization to the correct units. They published their findings online on 19 August in European Radiology. Also, Italian authors have issued a statement on structured reporting of chest CT in COVID-19 pneumonia.
August 24, 2020
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Dutch use micro-CT to visualize fetal development
By Kate Madden Yee
Micro-CT provides an unprecedented look into early human development, say researchers from the University of Amsterdam. They have published images that depict a 6-week-old ectopic pregnancy.
August 23, 2020
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Micro-CT unveils secrets of animal mummies
By Edna Astbury-Ward, PhD
U.K. researchers have used 3D micro-CT to uncover the internal features and material composition of three mummified animals from ancient Egypt. The cobra, kitten, and Eurasian kestrel that were scanned come from the collection of the Egypt Center at Swansea University.
August 19, 2020
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3D printing transforms congenital heart disease diagnosis
By Edna Astbury-Ward, PhD
The emergence of 3D printing, along with volume rendering and 3D modeling software, is making it easier to define complex cardiovascular anatomy and extracardiac vascular structures, and these technologies now play a pivotal role in the diagnosis of congenital heart disease, award-winning Spanish researchers have reported.
August 18, 2020
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Why AI implementation looks set to remain a distant goal
By Philip Ward
The lack of high-quality annotated datasets required for training, the difficulty of proving technical validation, and the absence of standards for data sharing between digital systems are the three major issues preventing the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) in daily clinical workflow, two leading European informatics experts have warned.
August 17, 2020
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