Clinical News: Page 534

Fujifilm places mobile DR unit in U.K. hospital

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Fujifilm Medical Systems has announced the installation of its FDR nano mobile digital radiography (DR) unit at the Nuffield Health Newcastle upon Tyne Hospital in England.

January 4, 2018

PET aids in new Alzheimer's discovery

By Wayne Forrest

With the help of PET imaging, researchers at the University of Cambridge believe they have confirmed the process by which tau proteins spread in the brain to advance Alzheimer's disease, according to a study published on 5 January in the journal Brain.

January 4, 2018

MRI links function of brain networks to IQ

By Wayne Forrest

A person's intelligence could soon be confirmed with an MRI scan to assess how well connected and functional his or her neurological networks are, according to a study published in the January issue of Neuron.

January 4, 2018

Madrid team gives master class on football injuries

By Philip Ward

Try to match the imaging modality with the specific injury of a young football player -- that's one of the practical tips given by doctors from a sports medicine clinic in Madrid with nine years of experience dealing with injured children and adolescents.

January 4, 2018

CT dose tracking highlights differences among kids in ER

By Abraham Kim

Radiation dose tracking software revealed that children who had CT scans in the emergency room (ER) of separate hospitals in Finland received considerably different radiation doses for head and cervical spine CT exams, according to a study published in Emergency Radiology.

January 3, 2018

What's next for deep learning? | Why lung nodules are missed | Gadolinium retention in bone

By Philip Ward

January 2, 2018

Strickland calls for more interventional radiologists

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

A severe shortage of interventional radiologists in the U.K. National Health Service (NHS) is resulting in unnecessary death and disability for patients, according to a 30 December article in the Observer, a Sunday national newspaper.

January 2, 2018

What's next for deep learning? Dutch show the way

By Philip Ward

A multidisciplinary team from the Netherlands collected a top award at RSNA 2017 for identifying four key areas of future development for deep learning: multitask learning, image-to-image synthesis, unsupervised learning, and uncertainty estimation and novelty detection.

January 2, 2018

How often are lung nodules missed on CAC scoring scans?

By Abraham Kim

If an incidental lung nodule is present on a CT coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring scan, how often is that nodule actually detected and worked up? Not as often as one might expect, according to researchers who analyzed the reasons why nodules might be missed in a presentation at RSNA 2017.

January 1, 2018

ESUR contrast guidelines on melanoma now in print

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The European Society of Urogenital Radiology (ESUR) has released a print version of its most recent guidelines for the use of iodine-based contrast media.

December 28, 2017

Improving cancer risk estimates in nuclear medicine

By Tami Freeman, PhD

Researchers from Sweden and the U.S. have found that calculating the lifetime attributable risk provides more accurate cancer risk estimates for patients undergoing nuclear medicine procedures, leading to important practical benefits.

December 28, 2017

X-ray fluorescence detects retained gadolinium in bone

By Wayne Forrest

As the safety of gadolinium MRI contrast is hotly debated, one of the challenges has been detecting gadolinium deposition in living patients. Canadian researchers may have found a solution to the dilemma with an x-ray fluorescence system that can noninvasively detect trace elements of gadolinium in exposed individuals.

December 27, 2017

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