Chest Radiology: Page 47

Could chest tomo be a first-line lung cancer screening tool?
By Kate Madden Yee
With all the attention being paid to CT lung cancer screening, what about x-ray? Italian researchers believe that radiology's oldest modality could be revived as a screening tool with a technological twist -- digital tomosynthesis. They describe their findings in the June edition of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.
June 5, 2013
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New BJR study assesses measurement of CR image quality
By Rebekah Moan
Medical physics experts may now use the image quality metrics described in a British Journal of Radiology study in quality assurance programs and optimization studies with a degree of confidence -- they reflect the clinical image quality in chest computed radiography (CR) images acquired without an antiscatter grid.
May 30, 2013
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ITALUNG CT lung screening study reports high compliance rate
By Eric Barnes
More than 1,000 subjects recruited for an Italian CT lung cancer screening study stuck with the program through four years of annual follow-up, researchers reported in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.
April 29, 2013
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Chest digital tomo can help reduce CT use, costs
By Wayne Forrest
By adding chest digital tomosynthesis in suspected cases of pulmonary lesions, patients can avoid unnecessary CT scans and imaging facilities can lower their expenses, Italian researchers have found.
April 17, 2013
Remember chest x-rays for mediastinal diseases
By Philip Ward
The posteroanterior chest radiograph remains a powerful tool in diagnosing mediastinal diseases, but to detect an unsuspected mass and avoid potential mistakes, it's essential to understand the concept of mediastinal reflections, according to prize-winning research.
April 3, 2013
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CT postprocessing can aid evaluation of pediatric airways
By Erik L. Ridley
Because it's noninvasive and doesn't require anesthesia, CT postprocessing offers significant advantages over the gold standard of bronchoscopy for evaluating pediatric airways. Yet there are even more benefits, according to an article published recently in Pediatric Radiology.
March 31, 2013
CAD scheme automatically characterizes lung nodules
By Eric Barnes
VIENNA - Taking a step beyond lung nodule detection schemes evaluated in previous studies, researchers from the Netherlands have developed an automated method of characterizing nodules as solid, part-solid, or nonsolid, pointing the way to different patient management paths, according to a presentation at ECR 2013.
March 8, 2013
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New European lung cancer mortality rates prove insightful
By Cynthia E. Keen
Death from lung cancer continues to decline steadily among men living in Europe, according to a study of male lung cancer mortality in 33 countries published online on 20 February in Lung Cancer. But more than 187,000 individuals are still predicted to die from the disease in 2015.
March 3, 2013
Lung cancer x-ray screening in Italy shows positive results
By Cynthia E. Keen
A nearly decadelong lung cancer chest x-ray screening program of at-risk residents of the Varese province in Italy reduced the number of deaths attributed to lung cancer by 18%, according to findings published online in Lung Cancer. This study offers insights into the value of chest x-rays as a low cost screening tool.
February 24, 2013
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CT features help predict resolving, nonresolving lung nodules
By Eric Barnes
CT can't precisely distinguish resolving from persistent and potentially malignant lung nodules at the first scan, but it does reveal the probabilities associated with different nodule characteristics, Dutch radiologists have found.
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Lung cancer deaths to outstrip breast cancer deaths by 2015
By Rebekah Moan
Driven by smoking, lung cancer is likely to overtake breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer death for European women by 2015, according to a study published in Annals of Oncology. In fact, in Poland and the U.K. it already has, the researchers found.
February 17, 2013
Keep aware of pros and cons of digital chest tomosynthesis
By Philip Ward
Low-dose digital tomosynthesis of the thorax administers a similar radiation dose to plain radiography but is far more accurate, can be applied to most lung nodule evaluations, and is useful for follow-up of the size change of nodules or other lesions, according to new prize-winning research.
February 13, 2013
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