Thoracic Imaging: Page 8

Radiology mourns loss of LungRADS co-creator McKee
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
CT lung screening pioneer Dr. Brady McKee of Amesbury, MA, died May 15 as the result of an accident, according to an obituary published May 18 in the Salem News.
May 26, 2022
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Thirona partners with Free Flow Medical
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Thirona BV and Free Flow Medical recently entered into a partnership agreement to provide clinicians with treatment planning tools for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
May 19, 2022
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Thirona, Pulmonx extend partnership
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Thirona has extended its partnership with Pulmonx to develop and commercialize tools that diagnose and treat emphysema patients.
May 15, 2022
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Inquest looks into fatal delay over failure to act on CT scan
By Frances Rylands-Monk
A U.K. investigation into why the radiology report of a patient who eventually died lay unseen by an oncologist for six days has found that there was a failure of the system to ensure unexpected findings are seen immediately by clinicians, national and local media outlets have reported.
May 9, 2022
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Dutch team links CT-detected emphysema to high cancer risk
By Kate Madden Yee
Researchers from Groningen in the Netherlands have found that emphysema discovered on chest CT is associated with higher lung cancer risk -- especially if the emphysema is severe. They published their findings on 3 May in Radiology.
May 5, 2022
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Thai facility offers free chest x-ray examinations
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
In a bid to draw attention to the importance of early detection of lung cancer, free lung x-ray exams are available on the first floor at Central World building in Bangkok until Sunday, 24 April, news website Thaiger has reported.
April 21, 2022
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Ibex promotes study of AI software to assess tube and line placement
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Ibex is highlighting a recent U.K. study published in Acta Radiologica that demonstrates the company's artificial intelligence (AI) software can help assess tube and line placement in mobile chest x-ray imaging while maintaining diagnostic image quality in the lung field.
April 21, 2022
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Mobile screening can produce results in lung cancer cases
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The mobile early cancer diagnosis scheme of National Health Service (NHS) England has led to hundreds of patients being diagnosed with lung cancer earlier, according to a release issued on 19 April.
April 19, 2022
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Munich team uses dark-field x-ray for COVID-19 pneumonia detection
By Will Morton
Scientists at the Technical University of Munich in Germany have reported that a prototype dark-field chest x-ray device is of potential value for diagnosing COVID-19 pneumonia. They found that dark-field imaging has a higher sensitivity than attenuation-based imaging, and that the combination of both is superior to a single modality.
April 18, 2022
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Mathias Prokop shares his thoughts on artificial intelligence
By Frances Rylands-Monk
How close are we to implementing artificial intelligence (AI) for lung cancer screening? How can AI assist radiology workflow? Which applications are most exciting? Prof. Mathias Prokop, PhD, from Nijmegen, the Netherlands, addresses these and other questions in an interview.
April 11, 2022
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Impact of vaping comes under intense scrutiny in Swiss study
By Kate Madden Yee
Investigators from Bern University Hospital in Switzerland have reported that MRI shows value as a noninvasive way of assessing the short-term effects of vaping and tobacco smoking -- effects that manifest in different ways on medical images.
April 10, 2022
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BMJ: CT lung cancer screening saved more than 10K lives
By Kate Madden Yee
The start of organized CT lung cancer screening in the U.S. in 2013 has helped avert more than 10,000 deaths from the disease between 2014 and 2018 due to earlier cancer detection, offering lessons for Europe and the rest of the world, according to a study published on 30 March in the BMJ.
April 5, 2022
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