Womens Imaging: Page 97

U.K.'s Nuffield buys Siemens Mammomat units

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

U.K. breast cancer screening service Nuffield Health said it has installed six Mammomat Inspiration digital mammography systems from Siemens Healthineers.

July 17, 2016

Photon-counting breast CT measures up

By Rebekah Moan

Breast CT with a prototype photon-counting scanner offers higher resolution than what's been reported for other types of breast imaging technologies, according to a new specimen imaging study by Willi Kalender, PhD. Another advantage of photon-counting CT is its efficient use of radiation.

July 6, 2016

IAEA seeks to raise awareness of pregnancy risks

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has published a new poster that aims to build awareness of x-ray or nuclear medicine procedures among women who are or might be pregnant.

July 5, 2016

Patchwork of life: Tributes flow for M. Emilia Silvestre

By Philip Ward

Dr. Maria Emília Silvestre, president of ECR 1987 in Lisbon and an important figure in Portuguese radiology, died on 18 June at the age of 84. She was also a prolific maker and exhibitor of patchwork quilts.

June 23, 2016

AuntMinnieEurope.com Women's Imaging Insider

By Rebekah Moan

June 15, 2016

Swedes add ABUS to improve cancer detection

By Rebekah Moan

Adding 3D automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) to digital mammography in a screening setting significantly improves the invasive breast cancer detection rate in women with dense breasts and results in an acceptable recall increase, Swedish researchers have found.

June 15, 2016

Adrian Dixon: Has imaging become too effective?

By Philip Ward

LIVERPOOL - There is a real danger that imaging has become a victim of its own success by being too effective, resulting in huge increases in workload, reduced clinical acumen, insufficient number of radiologists and radiographers, and too many sequences and images, warned Dr. Adrian Dixon at the U.K. Radiological Congress.

June 7, 2016

Under scrutiny: Pregnancy after uterine fibroid embolization

By Dr. Jamal Al Deen Alkoteesh

The traditional treatment of uterine fibroids in patients who wish to become pregnant is surgical removal by myomectomy. However, uterine fibroid embolization has a lower complication rate and has a comparable fertility rate to myomectomy after treatment, according to researchers from the United Arab Emirates.

May 25, 2016

Radiographer reporting: Australians give positive spin

By Inga Stevens

New research from Australia has underlined the potential of radiographers to enhance the accuracy of screening programs and increase the detection rates for breast cancer and calcifications. The study looks set to enliven the long-running debate about role extension.

May 24, 2016

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

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