Thoracic Imaging: Page 53

Proposed radiation standard in Ireland relies on infant weight

Infant body weight has been given precedence over infant age in the Republic of Ireland, where a new diagnostic reference level standard is being developed to define radiation exposure limits from mobile chest x-ray performed in the country's neonatal intensive care services.

April 24, 2011

U.K. immigrant screens miss most latent TB: study

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters) - British tuberculosis (TB) screening for new immigrants fails to detect most imported cases of latent disease, and screening should be widened to include more people from the Indian subcontinent, scientists said on Thursday.

April 21, 2011

Chest x-ray highlighted in U.K. program

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

A U.K. Department of Health program partnering with the National Health Service has added educational modules on interpreting plain x-rays of the adult chest to its website.

April 5, 2011

High-pitch chest CT captures fast-moving babies

VIENNA - High-pitch chest CT is a robust technique that provides high-quality thoracic images of babies in motion -- quickly, without sedation, and at low radiation doses -- according to a study presented at the European Congress of Radiology.

March 5, 2011

CAD may drive chest DR screening for tuberculosis

By Erik L. Ridley

A prototype computer-aided detection (CAD) algorithm for tuberculosis (TB) developed by Dutch researchers performed well in a pilot study, offering hope that the software could enable the use of chest digital radiography (DR) to screen for TB in areas with a high burden of the disease but not many skilled readers.

January 4, 2011

Cancer survival rates lower in U.K., Denmark: study

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Survival rates for four major cancers diagnosed between 1995 and 2007 are higher in Australia, Canada, and Sweden than in Britain and Denmark, according to an international study published on Wednesday.

December 22, 2010

DR tomo reduces need for CT to confirm lung cancer

Pairing low-dose digital radiography (DR) tomosynthesis with conventional radiography eliminates the need for three of every four CT scans typically performed to confirm lung lesions previously suspected on chest radiography, according to a study from the University of Trieste in Italy.

December 22, 2010

Lung cancer screen: A license to smoke?

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men who screen negative for lung cancer are less likely to try to quit smoking than men whose scans are inconclusive, a Dutch study shows. The findings add to the debate over whether patients will perceive negative results in a lung cancer screen as a license to smoke or a chance to quit.

December 19, 2010

Radiation therapy comparable to surgery in elderly patients

By Cynthia E. Keen

Stereotactic radiation therapy produces the same survival outcomes for elderly patients diagnosed with early-stage lung cancer as surgery, according to research presented at the 2010 Chicago Multidisciplinary Symposium in Thoracic Oncology.

December 16, 2010

Aycan, Definiens team up

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Radiology informatics firm Aycan Medical Systems has formed a partnership with imaging software developer Definiens.

December 6, 2010

Fully automated gating: A new era for PET?

A fully automated algorithm that can extract a respiratory signal from raw PET data has the potential to make gating a more convenient -- and, therefore, more widely adopted -- utility in clinical PET, according to an article published in Medical Physics.

November 24, 2010

Less invasive lung cancer staging strategy has multiple benefits: study

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Initiating mediastinal nodal staging of suspected lung cancer with endosonography, followed by surgical staging (mediastinoscopy) if needed, improves the detection of metastases and reduces the rate of unnecessary thoracotomies, compared with surgical staging alone.

November 23, 2010

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