Chest Radiology: Page 9

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BIR eyes pneumothorax rates in CT-guided lung biopsies

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

A new podcast from the British Institute of Radiology (BIR) reviews recent research on pneumothorax rates in CT-guided lung biopsies and discusses ways to decrease their incidence.

April 4, 2022

Austrians use CT to investigate long-term lung damage after COVID-19

By Kate Madden Yee

Over half of people who contract COVID-19 pneumonia show evidence on chest CT of damage to their lungs even a year after symptom onset, and imaging follow-up is essential in these patients, a new study from Innsbruck has shown.

April 3, 2022

BJR publishes special series on functional lung imaging

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The British Journal of Radiology (BJR) has published an open-access collection of articles about functional imaging of the lung. The series was edited by Prof. Philippe Grenier from Paris and other world experts.

March 31, 2022

Optellum's Virtual Nodule Clinic receives CE Mark

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Oxford, U.K.-based Optellum has received the CE Mark for its Virtual Nodule Clinic, an artificial intelligence application for early lung cancer diagnosis based on CT scans.

March 31, 2022

Oxipit secures CE Mark for autonomous imaging AI

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Artificial intelligence (AI) software developer Oxipit's ChestLink software for chest x-rays has received the CE Mark.

March 28, 2022

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