Thoracic Imaging: Page 21

How has radiology education fared in COVID-19 pandemic?
By Philip Ward
Training and education remain the prime focus of ECR, and on the eve of this year's congress, Prof. Dr. Laura Oleaga, PhD, speaks about how the European Board of Radiology (EBR) and her department in Barcelona have been affected by the pandemic. In this video interview, she also reflects on winning the top educator award in the 2020 EuroMinnies.
July 13, 2020
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Belgian team performs CT autopsies on COVID-19 patients
By Theresa Pablos
Researchers from Belgium are using CT to help perform minimally invasive autopsies on patients who died after being diagnosed with COVID-19. More than 70% of next of kin agree to such an autopsy, and the group hopes the scans will cast a light on the physical mechanisms that led to the fatalities.
July 13, 2020
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COVID-19: Anxiety levels fall, patient handling improves
By Philip Ward
There is now a general absence of fear of COVID-19 patients among radiology staff, and the reduced anxiety levels have resulted in better patient handling, according to two chest radiologists with extensive experience of these cases.
June 28, 2020
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Russian team presents 9-point plan to combat COVID-19
By Philip Ward
A group from Russia has issued details about how the medical imaging community can operate effectively in the pandemic. In Moscow, 48 outpatient CT facilities have performed over 170,000 chest CT scans, and more than 82,000 cases of COVID-19 pneumonia were detected.
June 28, 2020
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Free training tool can bolster COVID-19 detection on CT
By Frances Rylands-Monk
Evidence from users based in 145 countries suggests an online diagnostic training tool is showing considerable initial promise as a way of improving the capacity to detect early-stage COVID-19 on chest CT. The Australian-led project has identified important regional discrepancies, however.
June 22, 2020
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RSNA's COVID-19 chest CT classification system holds up
By Kate Madden Yee
A chest CT classification system developed by the RSNA for interpreting COVID-19 pneumonia cases shows substantial agreement among readers, according to a study published June 11 in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging.
June 19, 2020
Dual-energy CT, CTA reveal COVID-19 lung patterns
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Abnormal pulmonary vessel and perfusion patterns often appear on CT pulmonary angiography (CTA) in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia, suggesting the important role pulmonary vascular pathology and hypoxemia play in the disease, according to a study published on 18 June in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging.
June 18, 2020
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U.K. hospital installs mobile CT to counter COVID-19
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Bradford Royal Infirmary in the U.K. has installed a relocatable CT scanner to increase imaging capacity and to reduce the risk of cross-infection from COVID-19, according to a report from the British Institute of Radiology.
June 16, 2020
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Dutch study endorses RSNA's COVID-19 chest CT system
By Kate Madden Yee
New research from the Netherlands has indicated that the RSNA's chest CT classification system for interpreting COVID-19 pneumonia cases is performing well and can help clinicians better navigate assessment and diagnosis of patients.
June 16, 2020
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GE, Oxford to create COVID-19 pneumonia AI algorithms
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
GE Healthcare and the University of Oxford-led U.K. National Consortium of Intelligent Medical Imaging announced on 15 June that they are collaborating to create artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to help clinicians diagnose and manage patients with COVID-19 pneumonia.
June 14, 2020
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UKIO keeps the show on the road and goes virtual
By Edna Astbury-Ward, PhD
Flexibility and adaptability are important virtues in a pandemic, and these attributes have enabled Dr. Nick Spencer and his team to get through a difficult period for the UK Imaging & Oncology Congress (UKIO 2020), which began earlier this week.
June 4, 2020
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Tributes flow in for dedicated, patient-focused radiologist
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The medical imaging community in Egypt has paid tribute to Dr. Mushira Mahfouz Qudsy, head of radiology at Al-Mahalla Chest Hospital, whose death was announced last week.
June 1, 2020
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