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Philips highlights new guidelines for iFR

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Philips Healthcare parent Royal Philips said that the European Society of Cardiology has added instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR) to its recently updated guidelines on myocardial revascularization.

August 28, 2018

Regulation needed to ensure safe use of AI in radiology

By Erik L. Ridley

Proper regulation is needed to ensure that artificial intelligence (AI) software is used safely, ethically, and appropriately with protection of patient privacy in radiology, according to Italian researchers in a review article recently published online in Insights into Imaging.

August 28, 2018

CCTA biomarker may predict mortality from heart disease

By Abraham Kim

The use of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) to measure fatty tissue around arteries could help predict the risk of mortality from heart disease, according to research published online on 28 August in the Lancet and being presented at the European Society of Cardiology congress in Munich.

August 28, 2018

HeartFlow highlights research at ESC 2018

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Cardiovascular software developer HeartFlow highlighted research presented at the 2018 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) conference that confirmed its HeartFlow FFRct Analysis enables physicians to effectively differentiate patients in need of coronary stenting or bypass surgery from those who can be managed with medications alone.

August 27, 2018

AuntMinnieEurope.com Molecular Imaging Insider

By Wayne Forrest

August 27, 2018

FDG-PET/CT can provide valuable esophageal cancer updates

By Wayne Forrest

FDG-PET/CT could be very helpful in calculating the risk of developing interval metastasis during neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for esophageal cancer, and it could lead to other more appropriate restaging modalities for patients.

August 27, 2018

Gadolinium may enter brain via CSF in humans

By Wayne Forrest

Swiss researchers have confirmed the presence of gadolinium in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) within a few hours of an MRI scan with a macrocyclic gadolinium-based contrast agent. The findings indicate that CSF could be the pathway through which gadolinium enters the brain, they concluded in the September issue of Radiology.

August 26, 2018

SCOT-HEART: CCTA cuts risk of heart attack, death by 41%

By Abraham Kim

Patients with chest pain who underwent coronary CT angiography (CCTA) with standard care had a markedly lower rate of myocardial infarction or death from coronary artery disease than those who only received standard care in a new study, published on August 25 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

August 24, 2018

ESC 2018: Siemens prepares to unveil cardiac MRI scanner

By Frances Rylands-Monk

At the annual meeting of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) that starts this weekend in Munich, Siemens Healthineers plans to unveil a cardiovascular MRI scanner designed to offer special features for heart assessment, including technology that allows for free-breathing exams.

August 23, 2018

Fuji completes installation of U.K. DR room

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Fujifilm Medical Systems has completed installation of its Fujifilm Visionary digital radiography (DR) suite at Clifton Hospital in Lytham St. Annes, U.K.

August 23, 2018

ESR's world tour begins in Brazil in 2019

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The European Society of Radiology (ESR) will make the first stop of its Best of ECR tour at the Brazilian Congress of Radiology in Fortaleza in October 2019.

August 23, 2018

New tool calculates breast cancer recurrence

By Rebekah Moan

London researchers have created a web-based calculator that can better predict the long-term risk of breast cancer returning in other areas of the body. The tool, Clinical Treatment Score post-5 years (CTS5), went live on 24 August.

August 23, 2018

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