Womens Imaging: Page 104

Fresh doubts cast on screening mammography

By Rebekah Moan

A controversial French-led study published this week has found screening mammography's benefits have been overestimated due to unconventional statistical methods, but screening advocates have been quick to stress the authors have ignored numerous publications proving the efficacy of screening.

July 7, 2015

Breast imaging at highest risk for medicolegal claims

By Kate Madden Yee

It may come as no surprise, but a new study indicates that breast imaging has the highest risk of medicolegal claims compared with other medical imaging exams, at least in Australia, according to a study published online this month in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

July 5, 2015

UKRC: Is outsourcing a silent killer or a savior?

By Philip Ward

LIVERPOOL - Emotions ran high and opinions were polarized during the second day of the U.K. Radiological Congress (UKRC), when a lively and heated discussion about the pros and cons of outsourcing took place.

June 30, 2015

Planmed launches Clarity 3D DBT mammo system

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Medical imaging vendor Planmed has unveiled Clarity 3D, a full-field digital mammography that performs digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) imaging.

June 30, 2015

Norway unveils new data on breast cancer screening

By Rebekah Moan

Norway's breast cancer screening initiative has reduced mortality by 20% to 30% for women ages 50 to 69, followed to age 79, when compared with no screening, indicated figures released by the Research Council of Norway.

June 23, 2015

RCR releases 1st virtual special journal issue

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The U.K. Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) has released its first virtual special issue of Clinical Radiology, with a focus on breast imaging.

June 22, 2015

AuntMinnieEurope.com Women's Imaging Insider

By Rebekah Moan

June 17, 2015

Postmortem MRI measures up for fetal autopsy

By Rebekah Moan

Compelling new evidence of postmortem MRI's value has emerged. It can provide clinically important information in more than half of cases in which a conventional autopsy is nondiagnostic, typically in fetuses, according to a recent U.K. study.

June 17, 2015

Low-res monitors not so low after all in breast scans

By Rebekah Moan

Experience is not a factor when it comes to interpreting mammograms on lower resolution, cheaper viewing devices. And LCD monitors with image manipulation software are suitable for viewing mammograms for training purposes, found a U.K. study that included findings on iPhone use.

June 11, 2015

SNMMI: FDG-PET/CT predicts ovarian cancer survival

By Wayne Forrest

BALTIMORE - FDG-PET/CT scans can help predict disease progression and overall survival of ovarian cancer patients for as long as several years after treatment, according to a German presentation made on 9 June at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) annual meeting.

June 10, 2015

German breast experts set to discuss U.S. standards

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

More than 300 experts are due to gather in Frankfurt, Germany, this weekend for a consensus meeting on breast cancer diagnosis, according to the German Radiological Society (DRG).

June 8, 2015

Technique comes under scrutiny in breast cancer therapy

By Cynthia E. Keen

Dose delivery in radiotherapy must be verified for quality assurance to high accuracy, preferably by independent systems. This also applies to other applications of small x-ray sources, such as intraoperative radiotherapy, according to Swedish and Dutch researchers.

June 4, 2015

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