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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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Siemens debuts HD-Chest for PET/CT
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare has introduced HD-Chest, a new technology designed to reduce blur created by respiration during PET/CT studies.
October 7, 2010
New CAD for COPD parses disease type, severity
By Eric Barnes
Dutch researchers are taking computer-aided detection (CAD) of the lungs beyond suspicious lung nodules and into the diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), aiming to identify the patients most likely to benefit from treatment.
September 30, 2010
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Routine CT scans offer disease-detection bonus
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Surprise findings on a chest CT scan -- unrelated to the original reason for having the 3D imaging performed -- may help identify people at high risk for cardiovascular disease, suggests a new Dutch study.
September 28, 2010
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CAD detects signs of emphysema on DR images
By Brian Casey
Most of the recent research on the use of computer-aided detection (CAD) software for analyzing digital radiography (DR) studies of the chest has focused on lung cancer. But Italian researchers this month in European Journal of Radiology report good performance of an emphysema CAD algorithm that they developed at their institution.
September 26, 2010
Bundling of CAD software boosts lung lesion detection at CT
By Eric Barnes
Running CT lung images through multiple computer-aided detection (CAD) applications delivers better results than any single algorithm alone, researchers are finding. This phenomenon is unleashing a minitrend that may be discomforting to CAD developers concerned about the success of their systems.
September 20, 2010
PET/CT detects early efficacy of chemo drug in NSCLC patients
By Wayne Forrest
Dutch researchers have found that FDG-PET/CT can identify early response to preoperative chemotherapy with erlotinib in most patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to a study in the September issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
September 16, 2010
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FDG-PET before RT can modify planned NSCLC treatment
By Wayne Forrest
FDG-PET scans of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients reviewed before radiation therapy (RT) may lead to significant changes in treatment strategy and radiation therapy planning, according to a study in the August issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
August 10, 2010
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Short, split-dose radiation helps palliate advanced NSCLC
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 9 - Short-course split-dose radiotherapy helps relieve the symptoms of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), Polish oncologists report.
August 8, 2010
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Combined PET/CT CAD improves lung nodule detection
By Eric Barnes
Researchers in Japan have developed computer-aided detection (CAD) software that detects lung nodules in PET/CT images of lung cancer screening patients. Applying a combined CAD system to both modalities instead of CT or PET alone nearly doubled the number of solitary pulmonary nodules detected.
August 5, 2010
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Study finds clinical niche for DR tomo in pulmonary lesions
By James Brice
Imaging researchers have long known that chest tomosynthesis is more sensitive than conventional x-ray for detecting malignant pulmonary lesions, while producing lower radiation dose than CT. Now, they are zeroing in on a precise role for this unique technology.
July 27, 2010
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Thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysms often coexist
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 14 - More than a quarter of patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms also have thoracic aortic aneurysms, and the proportion is twice as high in women, Swedish researchers report in the Annals of Surgery.
July 13, 2010
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