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Imaging research facility opens in New Zealand

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Mātai, a New Zealand-based medical imaging research center that focuses on the brain, heart, and body, has opened its doors.

November 1, 2020

Lack of IV access contributes to CT scanner downtime

By Philip Ward

Failing to ensure patients receive appropriate intravenous (IV) access when they leave the emergency unit or hospital ward before a contrast-enhanced CT scan often results in significant waste of resources, a U.K. audit has found. The researchers have produced a five-point action plan to address the problem.

November 1, 2020

Imaging must continue in new French lockdown, FNMR urges

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

France's national union of private radiologists (FNMR) has underlined the need to carry on scanning and caring for patients during the country's second lockdown, which began just after midnight on 30 October.

October 29, 2020

Is there a pause on self-referrals for mammography?

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

A 73-year-old Scottish woman with a family history of breast cancer who has been unable to get a screening mammogram appointment discussed her predicament in a 28 October report in the Glasgow-based Gazette.

October 29, 2020

Dutch use molecular scan to find new salivary glands

By Melissa Busch

A group from the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam has used PET/CT with a radiopharmaceutical based on a prostate-specific membrane antigen to discover a pair of salivary glands. Sparing these glands during radiation therapy may prevent treatment side effects and improve quality of life for head and neck cancer patients.

October 29, 2020

Backlog in Irish breast screening may take 3 years to clear

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Breast cancer screening has now resumed in Ireland, but it could take three years to screen the roughly 150,000 women waiting to undergo mammography, according to a report in the Irish Examiner.

October 28, 2020

Aidence receives CE Mark for lung nodule software

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Netherlands-based artificial intelligence firm Aidence has been granted the CE Mark for Veye Chest, the company's lung nodule management assistant software.

October 28, 2020

Breast care facility opens in Abu Dhabi

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi has opened a facility dedicated to breast health as an effort to bolster oncology care for patients in the region.

October 28, 2020

COVID-19 detection training tool gains momentum

By Frances Rylands-Monk

A free app designed to train medical imaging professionals in COVID-19 case recognition is making progress. While other apps exist, users of the BerlinCaseViewer app have access to all the CT slices they would have on their workstations in normal clinical practice, the developers say.

October 28, 2020

Covera adds support for ScreenPoint's mammo AI software

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Clinical analytics firm Covera Health has announced the integration of Transpara from Dutch artificial intelligence (AI) developer ScreenPoint Medical into its quality analytics platform.

October 27, 2020

ENIGMA group aims to shine a light on brain trauma

By Rebekah Moan

The recently established Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis (ENIGMA) working group seeks to boost large-scale cross-border collaboration and data sharing of research studies on adult moderate/severe traumatic brain injury.

October 27, 2020

PET/CT rules supreme in cases of neuroendocrine tumors

By Philip Ward

PET/CT has no rivals when it comes to the detection and surveillance of cardiac metastases in well-differentiated gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors as well as guiding clinical management, according to research presented at the annual congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine.

October 26, 2020

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