Clinical News: Page 449

MRI guidance is feasible for proton therapy

By Tami Freeman, PhD

MR guidance is emerging as a powerful tool for real-time monitoring of radiation treatments, offering excellent soft-tissue contrast and the ability to track intrafractional tumor motion. Hybrid devices for MR-guided photon-based radiotherapy are now in clinical use. But to date, no such combined system exists for proton therapy.

December 20, 2018

Mammography screening in England hits new low

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Breast cancer screening fell to a new low in England in 2017 as nearly 800,000 women declined invitations to receive mammograms, according to a 20 December report in the Daily Mail.

December 19, 2018

Ultralow-dose FDG-PET gives boost to lung screening

By Frances Rylands-Monk

Swiss researchers have shown that machine-learning algorithms can assist fully automated FDG-PET lung cancer detection -- even at simulated very low effective radiation doses of 0.11 mSv -- and it can do so at little cost to sensitivity and specificity.

December 19, 2018

Global lung screening project shows early promise

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer is reporting promising results with its Early Lung Imaging Confederation.

December 18, 2018

MRI provides unique views of youth concussion

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

By combining structural and functional MRI (fMRI), Canadian and Dutch researchers have identified three unique patterns in the brain to better monitor concussions in young female athletes, according to a study published online December 3 in NeuroImage: Clinical.

December 18, 2018

How radiology can lure trainees | Prostate MRI gains acceptance | Latest news on breast screening

By Philip Ward

December 18, 2018

Detection Technology to acquire French x-ray detector firm

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Detection Technology is expanding with a soon-to-be-completed acquisition of French x-ray detector technology firm MultiX.

December 18, 2018

Virtual reality may identify early risk of Alzheimer's

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Researchers from the U.K. have developed a virtual reality navigational skills test that may pinpoint individuals likely to be affected by Alzheimer's disease earlier than has been possible with standard detection techniques, according to a 16 December article in the U.K. newspaper the Observer.

December 18, 2018

Fujifilm finishes CPD roadshow to U.K. radiologists

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Fujifilm Medical Systems has completed a series of continual professional development (CPD) presentations to more than 300 radiologists in the U.K.

December 18, 2018

False positives boost a woman's breast cancer risk

By Kate Madden Yee

Women who have a false-positive result on a screening mammography exam have twice the risk of being diagnosed with a screen-detected or interval breast cancer later compared with women with a negative result, according to a Spanish-led study published on 19 December in the British Journal of Cancer.

December 18, 2018

2D shear-wave elastography diagnoses cirrhosis

By Kate Madden Yee

2D shear-wave elastography is an effective tool for ruling out liver fibrosis or cirrhosis in people with chronic liver disease, German researchers wrote in a study published online on 11 December in the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.

December 18, 2018

Radiology must stress patient contact to lure trainees

By Frances Rylands-Monk

To win the hearts and minds of trainees and reassure them about the impact of artificial intelligence, radiologists must highlight patient interaction and how they contribute to clinical management, delegates heard at the annual leadership meeting of the European Society of Radiology, recently streamed live from Berlin.

December 18, 2018

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