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Dutch reveal new data on recalls in breast screening

By Rebekah Moan

When transitioning from film-screen mammography to full-field digital mammography, going digital increases the number of repeated recalls for the same mammographic abnormality, found a large Dutch study published on 14 May in European Radiology.

May 23, 2016

Malignant breast tumors can be spotted from 1.5 m away

By Rebekah Moan

Zoom out. That's the advice of Dutch radiologists who found some tumors missed by breast screening radiologists can be detected from 1.5 m away. They recommend radiologists take a "distant view" before closely evaluating a mammogram in detail.

May 17, 2016

MR shows more body fat in babies with diabetic mothers

By Kate Madden Yee

MRI scans show that babies born to mothers with gestational diabetes have more body fat at 2 months of age than those born to healthy women, according to a new study from the U.K. published May 12 in Diabetes Care.

May 12, 2016

What's the sweet spot for batch reading mammograms?

By Kate Madden Yee

What's the right number of cases to interpret when batch reading mammography studies? Too few can affect productivity, while too many can risk burning out your radiologists. Fortunately, researchers provide some guidance in a new study published in the May 10 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

May 10, 2016

RoeKo 2016 focuses attention on breast CT for screening

The University Medical Center in Göttingen is the only European facility using CT in breast cancer diagnostics. New information is being presented on the technique at the national German Radiology Congress (RöKo 2016), which opened on 4 May in Leipzig.

May 5, 2016

ESTRO: APBI rivals WBI, with better cosmetic results

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Accelerated partial-breast irradiation (APBI) with multicatheter interstitial brachytherapy is a safe and effective alternative to whole-breast irradiation (WBI) and has better cosmetic results, according to new research presented at the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) conference.

May 3, 2016

AuntMinnieEurope.com Women's Imaging Insider

By Rebekah Moan

May 2, 2016

DBT better characterizes breast lesions in Asian study

By Rebekah Moan

Researchers from Hong Kong have determined that digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) had higher sensitivity and better characterized more lesions than full-field digital mammography and synthesized 2D mammography when screening women at moderate risk of breast cancer.

May 2, 2016

Barco aids breast workshop in India

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Image display firm Barco contributed its equipment and displays to a recent breast imaging workshop at Medanta Hospital in Gurgaon, India.

April 26, 2016

Which breast images do radiologists look at the longest?

By Rebekah Moan

Radiologists spend significantly more time observing mediolateral oblique (MLO) breast images and right images, according to Irish research using eye-tracking software. This knowledge may be useful to help remove any interpretation differences and as a feedback tool.

April 21, 2016

Abbreviated breast MR rivals standard protocol

By Rebekah Moan

An abbreviated breast MR protocol represents a time-saving method with the same diagnostic potential as the standard protocol for characterizing breast lesions, according to Italian researchers. The abbreviated protocol can cut postprocessing time, they say.

April 17, 2016

Spectral data enrich mammography

By Tami Freeman, PhD

Spectral mammography could help reduce breast cancer screening recalls by distinguishing solid lesions from cysts, said researchers from Sweden and the U.K. who have developed a new method to measure the energy-dependent x-ray attenuation of tissue.

April 14, 2016

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