Clinical News: Page 320

German investigators highlight clinical value of PET/MRI

By Rebekah Moan

In a study of more than 1,000 examinations, German researchers found that PET/MRI improved lesion detection by over 15% compared with PET/CT in malignant bone disease and lung cancer. Also, PET/MRI reduced ionizing radiation by nearly 80% when compared with PET/CT.

September 2, 2020

U.K. increases funding for AI to diagnose disease

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The U.K. government said that it's investing an additional 50 million pounds (56.2 million euros) to scale up the efforts of its existing digital pathology and imaging artificial intelligence (AI) centers of excellence.

September 1, 2020

NHS Trust adds CT scanner to meet COVID-19 demand

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust in the U.K. will be receiving a relocatable CT scan unit as part of NHS England's COVID-19 recovery plan.

September 1, 2020

Radiology to lose AI champion Natalia Vukolova

By Philip Ward

Natalia Vukolova is to leave her post as CEO of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists. She was a regular visitor to ECR and a high-profile radiology administrator with a keen interest in artificial intelligence (AI).

September 1, 2020

IBA secures large proton therapy contract in China

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Proton therapy developer Ion Beam Applications (IBA) has received a contract from the Sichuan Cancer Hospital and Institute in China to install its ProteusPlus proton therapy system.

August 31, 2020

AuntMinnieEurope.com MRI Insider

By Philip Ward

August 31, 2020

MRI advances in sickle cell disease, heart transplants

By Philip Ward

The sustained clinical progress being made in the use of MRI to evaluate cardiac function in sickle cell disease and identify inflammation as a cause of graft dysfunction in heart transplant patients was evident in two separate eye-catching presentations made at this week's European Society of Cardiology congress.

August 31, 2020

GE unveils cardiac ultrasound package at ESC

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

GE Healthcare has launched a new cardiovascular ultrasound package based on artificial intelligence at this week's European Society of Cardiology (ESC) virtual congress.

August 31, 2020

Illicit drug use: Dublin team turns to imaging

By Edna Astbury-Ward, PhD

MRI is the modality of choice for suspected bone or joint complications arising from injected drug use, while CT and ultrasound play a key role in assessing soft tissue and vascular issues, Irish researchers have reported. Illicit drug use is a major healthcare problem associated with numerous multisystem complications, they say.

August 31, 2020

ViewRay launches radiation treatment access scheme

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Image-guided radiation therapy vendor ViewRay, cancer services provider GenesisCare, and the University of Oxford in the U.K. have launched a project designed to provide free access to radiation therapy for National Health Service (NHS) patients with localized pancreatic cancer.

August 30, 2020

RaySearch secures 2 Spanish contracts

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Radiation therapy software developer RaySearch announced that its RayStation treatment planning software is in clinical use at two Spanish proton centers: Quirónsalud and Clínica Universidad de Navarra.

August 30, 2020

Should gadolinium research shift from brain to skin?

By Philip Ward

It might be wise to shift the main focus of research into gadolinium deposition from the brain to the skin and its innervation, particularly in light of the growing evidence from the latest animal studies, a leading European researcher has proposed.

August 30, 2020

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