Clinical News: Page 400

Norwegians shine new light on DBT's vast potential

By Kate Madden Yee

Researchers from Oslo have provided fresh evidence that adding digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) to digital mammography in screening yields more cancers in most breast density and patient age groups. They unveiled their results on 13 August in Radiology.

August 19, 2019

U.K. trial explores AI for breast cancer screening

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Researchers from the East Midlands Radiology Consortium, a partnership of seven U.K. National Health Service trusts, are investigating the viability of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into breast cancer screening.

August 18, 2019

Fujifilm, NewTom strengthen alliance in the U.K.

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Fujifilm Medical Systems and conebeam technology company NewTom are collaborating on distributing NewTom's technology to hospitals in the U.K.

August 18, 2019

Metrasens files patent infringement suit in China

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Advanced magnetic detection technology firm Metrasens has initiated new patent infringement proceedings against Nanjing Cloud Magnetic Electronic Technology in Shanghai Intellectual Property Court in China.

August 18, 2019

Diffusion-weighted imaging of breast begins to come of age

By Edna Astbury-Ward, PhD

Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) of the breast offers enormous future potential as an imaging biomarker, but multicenter trials are essential to validate single-center studies and establish DWI as a useful clinical decision-making tool, according to Dr. Julia Camps-Herrero, president of the European Society of Breast Imaging.

August 18, 2019

Mobile breast screening unit gets hit by hefty parking fees

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Cornwall Council in the U.K. has charged the National Health Service breast screening program substantial parking fees for its mobile screening van, but the charges have now been waived, according to a report posted by CornwallLive.com.

August 15, 2019

Neurosurgery gets boost from 3D-printed head model

By Abraham Kim

An Australian team has devised a 3D-printed head model that enables the realistic simulation of neurosurgical procedures. The technique is based on a combination of MRI and CT angiography scans, and it is described in an online report posted on 1 August by 3D Printing in Medicine.

August 15, 2019

Italians find mammography can show cardiovascular disease

By Kate Madden Yee

Italian researchers have found that mammography can be a useful way to test for cardiovascular disease at the same time as screening for breast cancer because it identifies breast arterial calcifications, which have been linked to cardiovascular disease risk. They published their results online on 11 August in the European Journal of Radiology.

August 14, 2019

Radiology chief at Karolinska issues rebuttal | Get serious about the placenta | Support grows for prostate MRI

By Philip Ward

August 13, 2019

Eckert & Ziegler reports revenue, earnings growth

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Increased sales of its pharmaceutical radioisotopes helped isotope technology firm Eckert & Ziegler to record revenues in the first half of 2019.

August 13, 2019

Radiology chief at Karolinska issues rebuttal to Maverinck

By Dr. Juhana Hakumäki, PhD

The managing director for imaging and physiology at Karolinska University Hospital, Dr. Juhana Hakumäki, PhD, responds to last week's Maverinck column about the controversy swirling around recent construction at the world-famous hospital in Stockholm.

August 13, 2019

Is it time to get serious about the placenta?

By Philip Ward

Significant advances are occurring in placental MRI -- particularly the development of texture analysis, machine learning, and radiomic approaches -- and the time is now ripe for systematic and detailed MRI scans of the placenta in pregnancy, a leading French expert believes.

August 13, 2019

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