Womens Imaging: Page 128

Women with kidney, bladder cancers are not promptly diagnosed

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

As many as 700 women in England with symptoms of kidney or bladder cancer are not receiving prompt diagnosis and treatment of their condition every year, according to a study published online on June 24 in BMJ Open.

June 23, 2013

PET/CT's role develops in breast cancer follow-up

By Philip Ward

PET/CT is now a useful tool in detecting and restaging recurrent breast cancer, and full use of FDG-PET/CT must be made for follow-up and restaging of patients with the disease, a joint Egyptian and German research team has found.

June 23, 2013

CR, DR breast cancer screening performance comparable

By Kate Madden Yee

Radiologists reading breast screening studies had comparable performance regardless of whether the images were acquired with computed radiography (CR) or digital radiography (DR) mammography systems, according to a Belgian study published online in European Radiology. Still, DR delivered a lower radiation dose than CR.

June 13, 2013

Study: Breast cancer screening doesn't affect mortality

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Breast cancer screening does not yet show an effect on mortality statistics, even after 40 years, according to a new study published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.

June 11, 2013

Philips' MRI unit to be used in mapping fetal and babies' brains

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Philips Healthcare's Achieva TX MRI system and its Avalon fetal monitor will be used at sites in the U.K. to map fetal brains and babies' brains after birth.

June 9, 2013

White men, breast MRI come under scrutiny at DRK 2013

By Dr. Matthias Dietzel

After four days of intensive teaching, networking, updating, and discussions of the latest news, the German radiological congress, the DRK, is over. Die weissen Männer caused a stir, and the breast MRI sessions were particularly strong, writes AuntMinnieEurope.com's editorial adviser Dr. Matthias Dietzel.

June 3, 2013

AuntMinnieEurope.com Women's Imaging Insider

By Rebekah Moan

June 2, 2013

7T MRI successfully images the female pelvis

By Rebekah Moan

Imaging the female pelvis is possible using contrast-enhanced 7-tesla T1-weighted MR imaging, German researchers report in European Radiology, but they also demonstrated the image impairment associated with T2-weighted MRI in their study. Their preliminary results show that 7-tesla MRI of the pelvis is a promising but challenging imaging technique.

June 2, 2013

New recommendations published on imaging and pregnancy

By Philip Ward

The U.K. Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) has updated its guidelines on the measures routinely taken in imaging departments to protect unborn children from irradiation. There is evidence the incidence of childhood cancer may rise slightly following in utero irradiation before a period has been missed, says the RCR's Dr. Pete Cavanagh.

June 2, 2013

Mind the gender gap: Inequity for women radiologists flourishes

By Rebekah Moan

Despite the significant number of women radiologists in Italy, there exists a gender gap, which can be witnessed in horizontal and vertical segregation, according to a European Journal of Radiology article published online on 15 May. The author recommends that policies should be introduced to counter the bias.

May 23, 2013

Recalling how fetal ultrasound transformed pregnancy care

By Dr. Adrian Thomas

The development of ultrasound in obstetric care has transformed the experience of pregnancy and has been of inestimable value to women. History columnist Dr. Adrian Thomas reviews a new book that traces this progress and focuses on the social and ethical implications.

May 20, 2013

Sectra completes osteoporosis deal with Argenteuil

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Healthcare IT firm Sectra has provided its OneScreen online bone health assessment service to Argenteuil, a public hospital outside of Paris.

May 14, 2013

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