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Radiographers struggle with disruption and stress in pandemic
By Will Morton
Even in a country like Australia that's fared relatively well in the COVID-19 pandemic, radiographers have found it difficult to cope, a new survey has found. "We are the forgotten front line," said one radiographer.
February 28, 2021
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Report: U.K. lung screening study is catching cancers early
By Erik L. Ridley
Initial results from a CT lung cancer screening study sponsored by the U.K. National Health Service (NHS) show that low-dose CT exams could detect 70% of lung cancers at stage I or II, according to a report in the Guardian.
February 16, 2021
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Brussels team shares experiences of COVID-19 imaging
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The low-to-moderate specificity of the chest CT scan can be partly explained by initial false-negative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction tests in COVID-19 patients, according to Belgian radiologists.
February 14, 2021
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Third Opinion AI reveals advances in COVID-19 pneumonia
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Russian-based Third Opinion AI has trained a neural network to detect the signs of pneumonia caused by COVID-19 with low-dose CT, according to a presentation at the OpenTalks.AI conference, held from 3 to 5 February.
February 8, 2021
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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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