Thoracic Imaging: Page 49

Bone suppression tool helps find pneumonia in chest x-rays
By Erik L. Ridley
Thanks to its ability to improve the conspicuity of focal lung disease, bone suppression image processing can significantly improve radiologists' accuracy in identifying focal pneumonia on chest radiographs, according to new research published online on 5 July by European Radiology.
July 17, 2012
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CARS: iPads equal to workstations for 2D lung nodule detection
By Frances Rylands-Monk
Research from Italy shows 2D visualization of CT and MRI images on the iPad 2 can allow detection of pulmonary nodules as small as 2 mm. Attendees at the Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) congress learned that across different CT exams no such lesion was missed on the iPad 2 compared with conventional workstations.
June 28, 2012
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Incidental findings on CT lung screening offer benefits, costs
By James Brice
Incidental findings uncovered at low-dose CT lung cancer screening increase the overall yield of malignancies diagnosed from the annual exams for high-risk, asymptomatic patients, but their evaluation adds an additional layer of cost to such programs, Danish researchers have found.
June 27, 2012
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ESER sponsors emergency radiology course
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The European Society of Emergency Radiology (ESER) is conducting a summer course on emergency radiology in Munich on 5-6 July.
June 26, 2012
PET/CT enhances assessment of pulmonary melanoma
By Philip Ward
PET cannot rule out malignancy in pulmonary nodules less than 12 mm on expiratory CT, and melanoma patients with PET-negative pulmonary nodules less than 12 mm require further investigation, a new Austrian study has found.
June 25, 2012
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Riverain promotes ESTI studies
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Two new studies being presented at this weekend's 2012 European Society of Thoracic Imaging (ESTI) meeting in London show how bone suppression software by Riverain Technologies significantly improves radiologists' ability to detect potentially cancerous lung nodules in x-ray images, the company said in a statement.
June 24, 2012
Postmortem CT shows cause of death after acute chest pain
By Eric Barnes
Postmortem CT angiography combined with image-guided biopsy can nearly always determine the cause of death in patients who succumb after acute chest pain, a question that has often gone unanswered, according to a Swiss study published in Radiology.
June 20, 2012
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WHO guidelines to diagnose childhood pneumonia criticized
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The World Health Organization (WHO) criteria for diagnosing radiographic pneumonia were ineffective for screening young children admitted to the emergency department at Children's Hospital Boston, according to a study in the June issue of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.
June 12, 2012
Survey finds Irish more positive on CT lung screening
By James Brice
A survey of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the Republic of Ireland suggests that better access to healthcare and more firsthand experience with CT may explain why they expressed a greater willingness to undergo low-dose CT lung cancer screening than current and former smokers in the U.S.
June 7, 2012
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VATS goes hand in hand with CT lung cancer screening
By Eric Barnes
More than 80% of lung cancer resections could be performed successfully with video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), sparing the pain and cost of more invasive options, according to a new study in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.
May 23, 2012
Advanced radiotherapy gives extra hope to elderly in lung cancer
By Cynthia E. Keen
Advanced radiotherapy techniques are attributed to improvements in survival of elderly lung cancer patients in the Netherlands, according to a new study published online on 2 May in Annals of Oncology.
May 3, 2012
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PET can prove effective for measuring tumor vascularity
By Wayne Forrest
To better assess the efficacy of drugs in early tumor response in clinical trials involving novel cancer therapeutics through PET imaging, researchers from several European centers have proposed a series of recommendations.
May 1, 2012
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