Thoracic Imaging: Page 16

Investigation finds diagnostic delay caused patient's death
By Philip Ward
A serious incident report issued by a U.K. hospital group has found that the root cause of a woman's death in May 2020 was a delay in diagnosing her lung cancer following the results of a CT scan, according to two local newspaper articles.
February 8, 2021
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CT sheds light on lung damage after COVID-19 recovery
By Kate Madden Yee
Long-term evaluation of COVID-19 patients is crucial to determine whether residual CT abnormalities at six months largely regress, as in past forms of diffuse alveolar damage, an expert in interstitial lung disease has asserted in response to an important new Chinese study on long-COVID.
January 31, 2021
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Irish team uses supercomputer for COVID-19 research
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The Irish Centre for High-Performance Computing has approved a third major COVID-19 research project on the national high-performance computer, known as Kay.
January 17, 2021
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Perspectum's 'long COVID' MRI software cleared in U.K.
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Perspectum's software enabling the detection on MRI scans of organ damage due to "long COVID" has been cleared by the U.K.'s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.
January 14, 2021
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CT proves indispensable in lung transplant cases
By Philip Ward
Radiologists from the hospital that carried out the first lung transplant in France on a COVID-19 patient have shared their experiences and knowledge of how imaging can help to improve outcome and minimize the risk of rejection of the transplanted organ.
January 11, 2021
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Lung CT scans help predict COVID-19 mortality risk
By Erik L. Ridley
Investigators have found that volumetric analysis of lung consolidation on chest CT scans can be used to forecast the risk of COVID-19 patients dying in the hospital and aid in management decisions. They published their results online on 6 January in European Journal of Radiology Open.
January 11, 2021
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French team backs use of CTPA for pulmonary embolism
By Kate Madden Yee
Investigators from Brest in France have found that CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) can play a key role in screening for pulmonary embolism in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who presented at the hospital with worsening respiratory symptoms. They published their results on 5 January in JAMA.
January 6, 2021
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Radiologist describes getting COVID-19 vaccine
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
A radiologist from Alabama who was one of the first healthcare professionals in the U.S. to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has shared her story because of her experiences interpreting chest and lung images of patients with the disease.
January 4, 2021
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Frankfurt team optimizes chest CT of COVID-19 cases
By Kate Madden Yee
Researchers from Frankfurt in Germany have used minimum intensity projection reconstructions to improve the accuracy of chest CT exams when it comes to identifying ground-glass opacity in patients with suspected COVID-19 disease. They published their findings on 14 December in the European Journal of Radiology.
December 21, 2020
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1st COVID-19 annotated dataset is published
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The first annotated dataset of anonymized COVID-19 medical images from the RSNA International COVID-19 Open Radiology Database has been published by the Cancer Imaging Archive.
December 20, 2020
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Reliance on ultrasound grows in COVID-19 pandemic
By Theresa Pablos
Doctors in Italy are depending more than ever on ultrasound as part of their daily physical examinations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We can't afford CT scans for all our patients, and ultrasound's become like a third arm, according to one internal medicine physician.
December 17, 2020
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Aidoc and Imbio team up on AI for pulmonary embolism
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Artificial intelligence (AI) software developers Aidoc and Imbio have formed a partnership to develop an AI package for the detection and quantification of pulmonary embolism.
December 8, 2020
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