Dear CT Insider,
In breast CT examinations, the impact of the timing of contrast agent administration on signal intensity enhancement within lesions and areas of background parenchymal enhancement often gets overlooked, according to researchers from Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
This prompted them to investigate the topic, and they unveiled their results recently at the European Society of Breast Imaging (EUSOBI) annual meeting. In today’s top article, we’ve provided a summary of this study, along with information about AI’s potential in noninvasive axillary lymph node assessment using contrast-enhanced CT in breast cancer patients.
This week’s second CT story is about an important Belgian cardiac study. The authors evaluated a deep-learning model for assessing vessel-specific coronary ischemia compared with fractional flow reserve, and they have published their findings in European Radiology.
In other news, a coroner has investigated the tragic case of a patient who died after radiology staff performed a CT scan on the wrong patient due to a failure to check the patient's identity.
CT is a game changer for emergency diagnoses of the elderly, delegates heard at the French national radiology congress, JFR, held in Paris earlier this month. Expert speakers provided tips and advice on how to perform and interpret high-quality CT scans.
What interval works best for screening CT colonography (CTC), and how safe is CTC in this area? Italian researchers have provided some answers in a new study.
This newsletter has highlighted only a few of the many CT articles we’ve posted during the past month. For the full list, go to the CT content area.
Philip Ward
Editor in Chief
AuntMinnieEurope.com