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Optical imager targets breast cancer screening
Diffuse optical imaging has been proposed as a nonionizing and relatively inexpensive alternative method for detecting breast cancers, including those in dense tissues. Now, U.S. scientists have developed a handheld optical scanner with the potential to image breast cancer in real-time.
December 30, 2015
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AI improves MRI diagnosis of prostate cancer
AI assistance can help diagnose clinically significant prostate cancer on MRI, a Dutch study has found.
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Attendees from across Ukraine were onsite for the congress. All photos courtesy of Heart Center Lviv and Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University.
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AI improves MRI diagnosis of prostate cancer
By Will Morton
AI assistance can help diagnose clinically significant prostate cancer on MRI, a Dutch study has found.
June 23, 2025
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How can we minimize errors caused by human factors?
By Maryam Payne
An awareness of individual limits and vulnerabilities is a useful starting point for radiologists to safely manage the increasing demand for imaging.
June 23, 2025
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New advice issued on cardiac CT for prosthetic heart valves
By Maryam Payne
European and North American experts have published consensus guidance on the use of cardiac CT for prosthetic heart valve assessment.
June 20, 2025
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Ukraine hosts international cardiovascular conference
By Edna Astbury-Ward, PhD
Further evidence of Ukraine’s ongoing commitment to medical education was provided by the two-day conference “Modern Cardiovascular Interventions: Lviv Forum.” It attracted around 360 onsite attendees and 870 virtual delegates.
June 20, 2025
Attendees from across Ukraine were onsite for the congress. All photos courtesy of Heart Center Lviv and Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University.
McCoubrie on the mangling of medical English
By Dr. Paul McCoubrie
Radiologists should employ simplicity of phrase, avoid arcane jargon, and ensure reports are not Joycean, writes Dr. Paul McCoubrie.
June 19, 2025
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Swedish team shows clinical potential of tau PET scans
By Will Morton
Tau PET brain scans can help to identify the risk of clinical progression of Alzheimer’s disease in both the preclinical and symptomatic stages.
June 18, 2025
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Hospital colleagues pay tribute to Prateek Joshi
By Philip Ward
Dr. Prateek Joshi, the radiologist who died in the Air India plane crash that killed at least 279 people, was cherished by everyone and has left a profound void, his hospital colleagues say.
June 17, 2025
During his four years working in the U.K., Dr. Prateek Joshi developed a love of walking in the Peak District in central England and eating fish and chips. Photo courtesy of UHDB.
CT advances in colorectal cancer survival
By Maryam Payne
Volumetric analysis can give more information than single-slice analysis about body composition, which is associated with survival in patients with colorectal cancer.
June 17, 2025
Examples of CT volumetric and single-slice images produced by Data Analysis Facilitation Suite (DAFS) v3.9 software are displayed.
Essen team tackles imaging deidentification tasks
By Maryam Payne
German researchers have developed an open-source AI tool that can help boost patient privacy by speeding up the deidentification of medical imaging data.
June 16, 2025
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Radiologist and family among Air India crash victims
By Philip Ward
A radiologist, his pathologist wife, and their three children have been named among the 240-plus victims of the Air India plane crash, according to a report posted by BBC News on 13 June.
June 13, 2025
The selfie of the family taken onboard the Air India flight before take-off.
PET/CT supports use of infliximab for cardiac sarcoidosis
By Will Morton
FDG-PET/CT imaging has provided new evidence that infliximab is an effective medication for treating cardiac sarcoidosis, a U.K. study has found.
June 11, 2025
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Tribunal suspends AI researcher for a year due to misconduct
By Philip Ward
A U.K. tribunal has suspended an AI researcher from Google Health for inappropriately messaging a 13-year-old patient while he was a medical student at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.
June 10, 2025
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