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Radiologist describes getting COVID-19 vaccine

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

A radiologist from Alabama who was one of the first healthcare professionals in the U.S. to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has shared her story because of her experiences interpreting chest and lung images of patients with the disease.

January 4, 2021

Hologic acquires Somatex for 52M euros

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Hologic has acquired Somatex Medical Technologies, a firm specializing in biopsy site markers and localization technologies.

January 4, 2021

Volpara seals deal for breast screening in Australia

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Breast imaging software developer Volpara has secured a five-year contract to provide service to BreastScreen Queensland, the third largest breast screening program in Australia.

January 3, 2021

UCL team evaluates COVID-19's impact on emergency visits

By Theresa Pablos

Researchers from University College London (UCL) have estimated the effect of reduced accident and emergency visits for suspected cardiac disease on non-COVID-19 deaths. A 35% decline in visits early in the pandemic may have contributed to hundreds of avoidable deaths.

January 3, 2021

Prototype breast device displays much promise

By Theresa Pablos

A team from Heidelberg in Germany has reported that a prototype device combining 3D automated breast ultrasound and digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) performed well in a feasibility study. The scanner identified 97% of cancers and added only about a minute to the DBT exam time.

December 23, 2020

Sweden's Karolinska unveils breast AI results

By Theresa Pablos

Researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm have found that a breast cancer risk assessment model based on artificial intelligence (AI) outperformed traditional methods. The AI model beat conventional risk models used alone and when combined with breast density data.

December 22, 2020

Frankfurt team optimizes chest CT of COVID-19 cases

By Kate Madden Yee

Researchers from Frankfurt in Germany have used minimum intensity projection reconstructions to improve the accuracy of chest CT exams when it comes to identifying ground-glass opacity in patients with suspected COVID-19 disease. They published their findings on 14 December in the European Journal of Radiology.

December 21, 2020

1st COVID-19 annotated dataset is published

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The first annotated dataset of anonymized COVID-19 medical images from the RSNA International COVID-19 Open Radiology Database has been published by the Cancer Imaging Archive.

December 20, 2020

U.K. issues advice on placing, assessing nasogastric tubes

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The U.K.'s Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) released a report on 17 December regarding the placement and assessment of nasogastric tubes that calls for national training standards in England.

December 17, 2020

Mediaire secures 2M euros in funding

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Image analysis services provider Mediaire has received approximately 2 million euros for the continued development of its MRI deep-learning software focused on the brain.

December 17, 2020

Hologic adds 3D breast ultrasound to SuperSonic Mach 40

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Hologic has added 3D ultrasound imaging to its SuperSonic Mach 40 system, an upgrade that will allow users to easily access the company's ShearWave Plus elastography 3D and high-resolution B-mode volumes.

December 17, 2020

Reliance on ultrasound grows in COVID-19 pandemic

By Theresa Pablos

Doctors in Italy are depending more than ever on ultrasound as part of their daily physical examinations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We can't afford CT scans for all our patients, and ultrasound's become like a third arm, according to one internal medicine physician.

December 17, 2020

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