Thoracic Imaging: Page 31

Are you drowning from too many acronyms?
By Philip Ward
Overusing acronyms and abbreviations in imaging requests and reports can cause confusion, delay a diagnosis, and compromise patient safety, and it's essential to create an approved list of common acronyms, according to a new audit conducted in Scotland.
June 25, 2019
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Germany releases new data on CT lung screening
By Abraham Kim
Fresh statistics from the German Lung Cancer Screening Intervention trial have shown that CT lung cancer screening reduced cancer mortality by 69% in high-risk female smokers, but the test offered less of a benefit to men. The results were published online on 4 June in the International Journal of Cancer.
June 17, 2019
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SynApps software to be used more widely for CT lung checks
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Enterprise content management specialist SynApps' Veolity medical image processing software will be used across eight National Health Service (NHS) England facilities in the NHS' effort to use mobile CT scanners to check the lung health of 600,000 people over the next four years.
June 11, 2019
QUIBIM secures CE Mark for chest x-ray algorithm
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Advanced image analysis software developer QUIBIM has received the CE Mark for its Chest X-Ray Classification software application.
May 27, 2019
Lung ultrasound shows promise in pulmonary TB
By Philip Ward
In suspected cases of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) where radiation dose is of great concern, particularly in younger patients, lung ultrasound is a valid, noninvasive, and cost-effective tool compared with chest CT, new research from Italy has found.
May 1, 2019
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U.K. team uses CT method to assess pulmonary ventilation
By Philip Ward
Using a CT-based computational model to determine the ventilation heterogeneity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with increased detail can improve the stratification of these patients according to their disease severity and evaluate their suitability for regional treatment, researchers from Oxford, U.K., have found.
April 29, 2019
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U.K. physicians overlook lung cancer in nonsmokers
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The detection of lung cancer in individuals who have never smoked continues to be a diagnostic challenge for many clinicians in the U.K., according to an article published online 25 April in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.
April 25, 2019
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Belgian team warns about health effects of vaping
By Philip Ward
Two senior radiologists from Belgium have issued a fresh warning about the potentially harmful effects of electronic cigarettes on health, and they have called for more research into this emerging field. Their findings are to be presented soon at the European Society of Thoracic Imaging congress in Paris.
April 23, 2019
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Italians unveil new data on prolonged CT lung screening
By Abraham Kim
Fresh statistics from the Multicentric Italian Lung Detection trial have underlined the increasing benefits of CT lung screening over time -- starting after the fifth year. The authors reported a 39% reduction in lung cancer mortality risk for eligible smokers at 10 years.
April 15, 2019
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Dutch show how to cut need for CTPA in pregnancy
By Abraham Kim
A Dutch-led research team has used a set of clinical rules to enable almost 40% of pregnant women suspected of having a pulmonary embolism to avoid an unnecessary CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) examination. Their findings were published in the 21 March edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.
March 31, 2019
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CT's role grows in thoracic immune-related adverse events
By Philip Ward
Radiologists have an essential part to play in using CT to diagnose and monitor immune-related adverse events in the chest, according to prize-winning researchers from a top hospital in Barcelona, Spain. Optimal patient care during immunotherapy requires multidisciplinary effort by pulmonologists, medical oncologists, and radiologists, they say.
March 11, 2019
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Aidoc receives CE Mark for pulmonary embolism AI
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Israeli artificial intelligence (AI) medical imaging start-up Aidoc has received the CE Mark for identifying and triaging pulmonary embolism on pulmonary CT angiograms using its deep learning-based software.
February 28, 2019
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