Clinical News: Page 486

PET finds why some dementia patients live longer

By Wayne Forrest

A follow-up study by German researchers has pinpointed the presence of frontotemporal lobar degeneration as the determining factor to explain why Alzheimer's patients with amyloid-positive PET scans can outlive patients with negative amyloid results.

July 9, 2018

Zimbabwe commissions 1st diagnostic radiology center

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The government of Zimbabwe has commissioned the country's first diagnostic radiology and MRI center in Harare.

July 9, 2018

RCR to establish AI framework for radiology, oncology

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The U.K. Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) announced it will help establish a framework for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the fields of clinical radiology and oncology.

July 9, 2018

RCR: Future of imaging linked to AI

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The U.K. Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) believes that the future of medical imaging will be directly associated with the development of artificial intelligence (AI), according to a recent blog post by Dr. Caroline Rubin, the RCR vice president for clinical radiology.

July 9, 2018

Agfa completes U.K. enterprise software installation

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Agfa HealthCare has installed its Enterprise Imaging for Radiology software at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, U.K.

July 9, 2018

In era of AI, Swiss group puts stress on human touch

By Frances Rylands-Monk

During an age when machines and artificial intelligence (AI) are playing an increasing role, radiologists must become more visible to safeguard patients' perception of them as physicians and as human beings, according to Swiss-led research. This involves setting aside time for direct communication with patients.

July 9, 2018

New technique remotely activates chemotherapy with ultrasound

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Researchers from the U.K. have used ultrasound to activate heat-sensitive capsules filled with doxorubicin chemotherapy after they arrived at liver tumors, according to an article published online on 9 July in Lancet Oncology.

July 9, 2018

MRI scans show neckties cut blood flow to brain

By Brian Casey

You now have another reason to hate neckties. German researchers using MRI discovered that neckties can constrict blood flow to the brain, according to a study published online on 30 June in Neuroradiology.

July 8, 2018

Australian reactor woes worry nuclear medicine

By Brian Casey

The shutdown of shipments from a nuclear reactor in Australia that is a key part of the global supply network for the radioisotope molybdenum-99 is causing consternation in the nuclear medicine community, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region.

July 6, 2018

ITG, Bruce Power team up on lutetium-177 production

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

German firm Isotope Technologies Garching (ITG) and nuclear reactor operator Bruce Power have signed a memorandum of understanding for the joint production of the radioisotope lutetium-177.

July 5, 2018

Adrian Dixon reflects on 70 years of the U.K. NHS

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Dr. Adrian Dixon, emeritus professor of radiology at the University of Cambridge, shared key personal experiences he had with the U.K. National Health Service (NHS) in a recent blog post for the British Institute of Radiology.

July 5, 2018

German-Romanian MR symposium continues to expand

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The recent German-Romanian MR symposium in Constanta, Romania, hosted more than 100 participants, including several speakers from the German Radiological Society (Deutsche Röntgengesellschaft, DRG).

July 5, 2018

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