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CT sheds light on lung damage after COVID-19 recovery

By Kate Madden Yee

Long-term evaluation of COVID-19 patients is crucial to determine whether residual CT abnormalities at six months largely regress, as in past forms of diffuse alveolar damage, an expert in interstitial lung disease has asserted in response to an important new Chinese study on long-COVID.

January 31, 2021

AI algorithm can boost breast cancer risk assessment

By Erik L. Ridley

An international team of researchers has developed Mirai, an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that can estimate a woman's risk of breast cancer across multiple future time points based on analysis of her mammogram and clinical risk factors.

January 31, 2021

EANM unveils supplier audit initiative

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) Research has launched a supplier audit program, along with three new PET/CT accreditations.

January 28, 2021

Meet the finalists for EuroMinnies 2021

By Philip Ward, Brian Casey, Erik L. Ridley, Theresa Pablos

Suspense is building in the third edition of the EuroMinnies annual awards scheme from AuntMinnieEurope.com. The expert panel comprising members of our editorial advisory board, past winners, and columnists has now agreed on 16 finalists from a total of 72 semifinal candidates in eight categories. The final list is available now.

January 27, 2021

Hologic launches Mach 20 ultrasound scanner

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Hologic has released a new ultrasound scanner, SuperSonic Mach 20, for imaging the breast, liver, muscles, and tendons.

January 27, 2021

NHS England requires use of HeartFlow's FFRct software

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The National Health Service (NHS) England and NHS Improvement have mandated that hospitals in England adopt HeartFlow's HeartFlow Analysis fractional flow reserve CT (FFRct) software to fight coronary heart disease.

January 26, 2021

Early signs of malignant brain tumors found on MRI

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Analysis of MRI biomarkers can identify physiological processes that indicate recurrence of glioblastoma -- as early as six months before it could be diagnosed on a conventional MRI exam, according to researchers from Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences in Krems, Austria.

January 26, 2021

Out of Africa: Breast imaging in Tanzania

By Edna Astbury-Ward, PhD

A major challenge facing breast radiologists in sub-Saharan Africa is that women often present when cancers are advanced. More patient education and support and a stronger primary healthcare system are vital to allow for timely diagnostic referrals, according to new research from Tanzania.

January 26, 2021

MRI gives boost to evaluation of myocarditis

By Erik L. Ridley

Researchers from a top London facility have reported that a free-breathing, 3D whole-heart T2 MRI mapping sequence can quantify myocardial T2 times in patients with suspected myocarditis. The technique might even detect more cases of cardiac inflammation than standard 2D T2 maps, they said.

January 25, 2021

fMRI gets to the bottom of smell, taste dysfunction from COVID-19

By Emily Hayes

Functional MRI (fMRI) was helpful for evaluating persistent smell and taste dysfunction in a patient with COVID-19, according to a case report published on 22 January in JAMA Neurology. The orbitofrontal cortex appears to be particularly relevant in understanding the cause of symptoms, Kuwaiti researchers reported.

January 24, 2021

CT provides boost for mapping of breast density

By Theresa Pablos

Researchers from Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands have used nearly 100 CT images to map breast density. The analysis may lead to more accurate radiation dose estimates and improved breast cancer risk models.

January 21, 2021

Focused ultrasound gives hope in Parkinson's disease

By Tami Freeman, PhD

A new Spanish-led study suggests that focused ultrasound may benefit patients with asymmetric Parkinson's disease, in which symptoms are much more severe on one side of the body. Using precise, focused ultrasound energy had a very strong effect on parkinsonian symptoms, the investigators found.

January 20, 2021

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