Pediatric Radiology: Page 19

Study recommends skipping gonad shields in pediatric x-rays
By Eric Barnes
VIENNA - Gonad shielding is more trouble than it's worth, concluded Dutch researchers in a study of more than 700 children undergoing x-ray exams of the abdomen and pelvis. Shield placement is rarely correct, they said, and crucial anatomy ends up being covered even when performed correctly, especially in girls.
March 6, 2011
Carestream launches pediatric package at ECR
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
VIENNA - Carestream Health is launching a new package for low-dose pediatric radiography at this week's European Congress of Radiology (ECR).
March 6, 2011
High-pitch chest CT captures fast-moving babies
By Eric Barnes
VIENNA - High-pitch chest CT is a robust technique that provides high-quality thoracic images of babies in motion -- quickly, without sedation, and at low radiation doses -- according to a study presented at the European Congress of Radiology.
March 5, 2011
Danish firm Visiana tackles bone age evaluation
By Erik L. Ridley
Bone age has typically been determined manually from hand x-rays by radiologists or pediatric endocrinologists, but this method is subjective and prone to reader variability. Danish company Visiana believes its automatic bone age assessment software can do the job better and faster.
February 27, 2011
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Image Gently launches fluoro campaign on 3rd anniversary
By Cynthia E. Keen
Image Gently's new campaign to reduce patient exposure to radiation dose during diagnostic fluoroscopy procedures represents a new milestone for the initiative, which in just three years has made major strides in raising radiation dose awareness among both patients and healthcare providers.
February 13, 2011
Study advises caution in using x-ray for fetuses, infants
By Cynthia E. Keen
Researchers are advising healthcare providers to take extra care in the use of x-ray procedures in pregnant women and very young children, following results of a study published online February 10 in BMJ of more than 7,500 U.K. children who received radiography procedures.
February 10, 2011
Rads do well using smartphones to read CT, MR images
By Erik L. Ridley
Italian radiologists reviewing CT and MR images on smartphones were as accurate as those reading images from PACS workstations, a new study shows. But reading from smartphones produced greater eye strain, indicating that the devices are probably best used for consulting rather than primary interpretation.
January 18, 2011
PET may help find cause for epileptic brain disease in kids
By Wayne Forrest
With the help of FDG-PET, French researchers have discovered a common brain dysfunction among school-age children afflicted with fever-induced refractory epileptic encephalopathy, according to a study published in the January edition of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
January 2, 2011
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Translabial ultrasound helps in labor assessment
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Intrapartum translabial ultrasound appears to be an effective way to monitor birth progress in term fetuses in cephalic presentation, researchers report in BJOG online November 18.
December 27, 2010
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Czech prenatal US screening program improves CHD detection
By Erik L. Ridley
A review of 21 years of experience from the Czech Republic's national prenatal ultrasound screening program found significant and improving antenatal detection of congenital heart disease (CHD). But mortality still remains high, according to the research published in Heart.
December 20, 2010
MR images capture birth process
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
German physicians and healthcare providers at Charité University Hospital in Berlin recently followed the birth of a child on an open MRI system.
December 7, 2010
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Risk of later CNS tumors after childhood cancer increases with radiation dose
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The risk of second primary neoplasms of the central nervous system (CNS) in survivors of childhood cancer increases greatly with the dose of radiation they received and, independently, with the dose of intrathecal methotrexate used.
November 15, 2010
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