Thoracic Imaging: Page 56

Caution urged on early mammography for high-risk women
By Edward Susman
Women at high risk of breast cancer should be cautious about undergoing mammography or other chest x-ray studies before the age of 30 due to the risk that radiation exposure might trigger cancer, according to research presented at last week's RSNA meeting in Chicago.
December 10, 2009
Volume-based assessments useful for managing lung nodules detected on CT
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Dec 3 - When noncalcified lung nodules are detected by CT, assessment of their volume and volume-doubling time with repeat CT scans can be useful for deciding the best course of action, new research suggests.
December 2, 2009
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Chest x-ray CAD fails to boost observer performance
By Erik L. Ridley
CHICAGO - Computer-aided detection (CAD) software may not produce significant improvement in detecting suspicious lesions on chest radiographs, but it's not necessarily the technology's fault, according to research presented Wednesday at the 2009 RSNA meeting in Chicago.
December 1, 2009
Scientific poster digital format offers potential to transform medium
By Cynthia E. Keen
CHICAGO - Displaying scientific posters in digital format at this year's RSNA meeting allows authors not only to convey facts, graphs, and photos, but also to incorporate some interactive functionality. Onsite digital displays offer huge potential to educate readers in ways that even the best developed paper poster cannot.
November 29, 2009
In patients with stable chest pain, CT is more often diagnostic than exercise ECG
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Nov 2 - Unlike exercise electrocardiography (XECG), CT angiography is "nearly always" feasible and diagnostic in patients with stable chest complaints, researchers say in the October issue of the journal Heart.
November 1, 2009
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Study: Lung scintigraphy tops CTA in PE
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Lung scintigraphy may be more reliable than pulmonary CT angiography (CTA) for identifying or excluding pulmonary embolism (PE) in pregnant patients, according to a study published in the November issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
October 19, 2009
Further testing justified for smokers with hemoptysis and normal chest x-ray
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Oct 12 - Clinicians should continue to evaluate smokers with hemoptysis even if the chest x-ray is normal, as nearly 10% of these patients will have malignancy, say researchers from the U.K.
October 11, 2009
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PET/CT helps speed lung cancer diagnosis
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
FDG-PET/CT can expedite the diagnosis of lung cancer in an outpatient setting, according to research from the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam.
October 1, 2009
Brazilian team marries lung CAD with PACS
By Eric Barnes
Nearly all computer-aided detection (CAD) systems in clinical use today have a major shortcoming: the need to transfer image data to a separate workstation to run CAD software, with CAD data remaining separate from the PACS images radiologists read in their normal workflow. Researchers from São Paulo may have the answer.
August 19, 2009
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New guidelines for resuscitating children recommended
By Cynthia E. Keen
Two new clinical studies used CT to determine that European guidelines for setting the depth of chest compression when resuscitating children may be more accurate than those followed in the U.S. The U.S. guidelines actually could lead to injury in children, researchers say.
July 23, 2009
High-pitch cardiothoracic CTA skips breath-holds and high doses
By Eric Barnes
A new way to use CT angiography (CTA) to scan fast-moving targets -- such as fidgety children and grown-ups with rapid heartbeats -- is becoming routine at a hospital in France.
July 6, 2009
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PET/CT improves preoperative staging of non-small cell lung cancer
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 2 - Combined positron-emission tomography and computed tomography (PET/CT) improves the staging of non-small cell lung cancer and also reduces the numbers of total and futile thoracotomies, Danish researchers report in the July 2 New England Journal of Medicine.
July 1, 2009
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