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Curium files for approvals of germanium-68 tracer
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Nuclear medicine firm Curium has filed regulatory applications in the U.S. and Europe for germanium-68, a radiopharmaceutical used in PET imaging.
June 8, 2020
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Tabár extends training options for mammography
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Breast imaging pioneer Dr. László Tabár has expanded on the range of online teaching lectures on offer from Mammography Education.
June 8, 2020
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French union reelects Masson as president for third term
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
France's national union of private radiologists has unanimously reelected Dr. Jean-Philippe Masson as its president for a third term.
June 8, 2020
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ESR gives full support to validation of biomarkers
By Philip Ward
The rapid and effective validation of quantitative imaging biomarkers is essential if they are to have any meaningful future impact on both clinical practice and research, the European Society of Radiology (ESR) has asserted in a consensus statement released on 4 June.
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Delayed CT reading results in patient's death
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
A man from Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, died after a CT scan that suggested cancer was not read for more than a year, stated a report published online on 8 June by Radio New Zealand (RNZ).
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New details emerge about how COVID-19 affects the brain
By Kate Madden Yee
The case of a 12-year-old Iranian boy who contracted COVID-19 and had a stroke has helped to fill the knowledge gap that exists over how exactly the virus enters the central nervous system and affects the brain.
June 8, 2020
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Solutions for Tomorrow secures Italian contract
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Medical technology company Solutions for Tomorrow of Sweden announced that it has secured mobile x-ray contracts with two Italian hospitals with the help of Ziehm Imaging.
June 7, 2020
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Can AI help bring breast screening into the home?
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
A startup called Niramai Health Analytix has launched a home breast health screening service based on thermal imaging and artificial intelligence (AI), according to a report posted on 5 June by the Indian online publication YourStory.
June 7, 2020
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Agfa completes German digital radiography installation
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Agfa HealthCare has installed one of its compact U-arm digital radiography (DR) units, DX-D 300, at Buttstädt Surgery Practice in Germany.
June 7, 2020
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Do we really stand on the shoulders of giants?
By Dr. Adrian Thomas
Those who come after the true pioneers are often the ones who are able to build on the solid foundations left behind, as the case of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen shows, writes history columnist Dr. Adrian Thomas.
June 7, 2020
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New MRI scoring criterion helps diagnose prion disease
By Kate Madden Yee
A new diffusion MRI scoring scale could improve diagnosis of the prion malady sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) and compares favorably to cerebrospinal fluid testing, according to a study published on 1 June in JAMA Neurology.
June 7, 2020
A: A man in his 70s with sCJD subtype VV2 with signal hyperintensity in the body of the left caudate, without evidence of signal abnormality in the putamina and neocortical ribbon. B: A woman in her 60s with sCJD subtype MM1 with signal hyperintensity in the cortical ribbon of both parietal lobes, left greater than right, and left precuneus without evidence of abnormality in the striatum, thalami, and cortical ribbon of the temporal and occipital lobes. C: A woman in her 70s with sCJD subtype MM1 with signal hyperintensity in the precuneus (right greater than left) and right parietal cortex. Images courtesy of JAMA Neurology.
UKIO keeps the show on the road and goes virtual
By Edna Astbury-Ward, PhD
Flexibility and adaptability are important virtues in a pandemic, and these attributes have enabled Dr. Nick Spencer and his team to get through a difficult period for the UK Imaging & Oncology Congress (UKIO 2020), which began earlier this week.
June 4, 2020
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