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Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation correction maintained long-term

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), May 1 - The benefits of selective embolization of pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVM) are usually maintained over many years, as demonstrated by helical CT follow-up, investigators in France report.

April 30, 2006

Austrian radiologist to lead 2007 ECR

By Eric Barnes

VIENNA - The 2006 European Congress of Radiology (ECR) ended Tuesday with the installation of an Austrian radiologist to lead next year's proceedings, which will also highlight the imaging expertise of China and the Czech Republic.

March 7, 2006

Professor Adam looks at ECR 2006 and beyond

By Eric Barnes

As the curtain rises on the European Congress of Radiology (ECR 2006), AuntMinnie.com is pleased to bring you a conversation with this year's president, professor Andy Adam from the U.K. The professor of interventional radiology at King's College London talks about the meeting ahead, organizational changes in the ECR, interventional radiology, the National Health Service, and more in our exclusive interview.

March 1, 2006

Colon CAD: VC's extra eyes face new challenges

By Eric Barnes

Prototype colon CAD systems are proliferating, and thanks to years of painstaking development work they're doing a pretty good job, outperforming all but the best radiologists in the detection of colonic lesions. VC CAD expert Dr. Hiro Yoshida from Harvard Medical School in Boston discusses the major innovations that have produced today's complex CAD systems, and the moving target CAD developers face in keeping up with new performance standards.

August 4, 2005

Model saves time, radiation by simulating anatomic changes during radiotherapy

By Eric Barnes

Organs and tumors can twist, turn, and deform substantially during radiotherapy, creating a moving target for treatment planners seeking to avoid irradiating normal tissue. One solution, a full CT scan before each treatment, is both time- and radiation-intensive. But what if doctors could simply "update" the pretreatment scan with a few newly acquired planar projection images? Researchers from Virginia built and tested a model to do just that.

July 24, 2005

Digital mammo with CAD requires sharp eye for false negatives

By Jonathan S. Batchelor

In the past few years, traditional film-screen and digital mammography has benefited by the application of computer-aided detection (CAD) software. Although studies have shown that CAD use can increase the detection of early-stage malignancies, radiologist experience is needed to reduce the number of false negatives to a minimum, according to researchers from Italy.

June 29, 2005

CARS panel discusses the future of CAD

By Cynthia E. Keen

BERLIN - The potential of using computer-aided detection (CAD) as a diagnostic and clinical support tool in medicine has just begun to be discovered and commercially developed. Presentations at the two days of special sessions on CAD at the 2005 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) meeting revealed that discovery and utilization are just the tip of the iceberg of possibilities.

June 27, 2005

Interventionalists see safer RFA with coregistered laparoscopic US, CT

By Eric Barnes

BERLIN - Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and other minimally invasive interventions have become increasingly popular. But the interventionalists who perform them often end up working in the dark, as the CT or MR image they've placed across the room bears little resemblance to the laparoscopic ultrasound images used to guide the RFA needle. Researchers may have found a solution, according to a presentation at the Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) meeting.

June 26, 2005

3D diminution index spots lung nodules attached to blood vessels

By Eric Barnes

BERLIN - A principal limitation of lung cancer imaging is the difficulty of distinguishing lung nodules attached to blood vessels from normal blood vessels, especially in CT data. But researchers from Japan have developed a 3D feature called the diminution index, which scans the CT pulmonary blood vessel data for signs of rapidly expanding shapes that can indicate a nodule rather than a blood vessel.

June 26, 2005

4D MRI enables blood-velocity measurement in mitral valve insufficiency

By Eric Barnes

BERLIN - Mitral valve insufficiency is a fairly common heart problem that lacks ideal imaging solutions. The problem lies in assessing regurgitant blood flow to determine the need for intervention. A presentation Thursday at the Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) meeting discussed the limitations in assessing blood flow, and highlighted a new measurement approach using time-resolved MRI vector fields.

June 23, 2005

CARS opens with call for more PACS research

BERLIN - After 23 years of academic research and commercial evolution into a clinically viable technology, does PACS merit another decade of additional R&D by the medical academic community? Dr. Davide Caramella, president of EuroPACS, addressed this question during a presentation Wednesday at the International Congress of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS).

June 22, 2005

CARS suite of the future sees key role for image-guided intervention

By Eric Barnes

BERLIN - In Wednesday's opening session of the 19th International Congress of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS), Dr. Michael Vannier set forth his vision of the interventional suite of the future, and touched on the powerful forces shaping its development.

June 22, 2005

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