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Radiographers speak on PPE and COVID-19 infection control

By Philip Ward

What personal protective equipment (PPE) do radiographers use for COVID-19 scans? How do they disinfect the CT machine between patients? Which guidelines do they follow? Five experienced European radiographers speak about their work and how they minimize transmission of the virus.

April 27, 2020

Mobile CT proves vital to China's efforts to combat COVID-19

By Philip Ward

Mobile CT units located near temporary hospitals, combined with home working by radiologists and fast transmission of reports to patients' phones, have been critical elements of China's strategy to fight COVID-19, according to the president of the Chinese Society of Radiology.

April 26, 2020

Chest CT of COVID-19: What to keep in mind

By Kate Madden Yee

New details have emerged from the Middle East about the clinical features of COVID-19 that manifest on chest CT in patients who are severely ill. The information has come in a study published on 20 April in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging.

April 26, 2020

Belgian groups collaborate on AI for COVID-19

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Research teams from across Belgium have joined forces to create an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that evaluates CT scans of patients admitted to the hospital with COVID-19.

April 22, 2020

Lung finding in chest CT can predict outcome in COVID-19

By Erik L. Ridley

An Italian study involving cases of COVID-19 pneumonia has found that quantification of well-aerated lung parenchyma on baseline chest CT can predict which patients are likely to be admitted to the intensive care unit.

April 22, 2020

Danish team unveils CT lung cancer screening analysis

By Erik L. Ridley

Researchers from Copenhagen have reported that CT image texture evaluation can allow low-dose CT lung cancer screening exams to be used to screen for and assess chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

April 21, 2020

France releases pediatric guidance on COVID-19

By Frances Rylands-Monk

The French radiology society has published a series of recommendations for pediatric thoracic imaging in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, based in part on studies in the literature.

April 21, 2020

RadLogics announces new sites for COVID-19 software

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Software developer RadLogics has announced new installations around the world of its artificial intelligence (AI) software for analyzing chest CT images from patients suspected of having the COVID-19 respiratory disease.

April 20, 2020

Thirona unveils AI software for COVID-19 analysis

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Dutch artificial intelligence (AI) software developer Thirona has introduced two free software applications to assist in the triage of suspected COVID-19 cases.

April 20, 2020

Confusion reigns over payment of COVID-19 work in France

By Frances Rylands-Monk

The regional union of private health professionals in Île-de-France (L'Union régionale des professionnels de santé médecins libéraux Île-de-France) has called on the government to pay volunteer private practitioners for COVID-19-related shifts -- a demand which to date has been refused.

April 19, 2020

How is global radiology bearing up in COVID-19 pandemic?

By Wayne Forrest

Imaging professionals from across the world shared their experiences of COVID-19 in a virtual roundtable on 15 April, organized by the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and the Society for MR Radiographers and Technologists.

April 16, 2020

What Europe can learn from China in combating COVID-19

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

If there is one positive thing to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is the insight that humanity can only solve today's complex problems through international collaboration. That's the central message of a group of radiologists who wrote an article published on 8 April in European Radiology.

April 16, 2020

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