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Sports experts close in on muscle injuries

By Becky McCall

LONDON - Prolonged time away from competition can threaten an elite athlete's career, so everybody will welcome news that precisely grading muscle injury to facilitate a prognosis is a step closer after using a new classification system, discussed at a sports imaging workshop on Friday.

May 31, 2016

Phil O'Connor: Rio can match London's Olympic success

By Philip Ward

LONDON - Know your sports, have eyes in the back of your head, and expect the unexpected. That's what it takes to deliver a radiology service at the Olympics, says Dr. Phil O'Connor, imaging lead at London 2012. In this exclusive video interview, he has some tips for the organizers in Rio de Janeiro.

May 30, 2016

MRI reveals how schizophrenia may improve

By Eric Barnes

The brains of patients with schizophrenia have the capacity to reorganize themselves and fight the disease, concludes a new MRI study of brain tissue changes published online last week in Psychological Medicine.

May 29, 2016

FDG-PET helps accurately assess unconscious patients

By Wayne Forrest

European researchers have developed a way to use FDG-PET to measure glucose metabolism in patients with severe brain injuries to diagnose and predict when they will recover consciousness, according to a study published online on 26 May in Current Biology.

May 26, 2016

Germans link CT cancer risk to social deprivation

By Frances Rylands-Monk

A new pediatric study from Germany suggests that poorer children get more scans from radiation-bearing modalities like CT. Clinicians and radiologists need to be aware that children from deprived backgrounds may be more likely to undergo CT than their more privileged peers.

May 24, 2016

ESC issues new guidelines for heart failure

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has published new guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure.

May 23, 2016

HeartFlow highlights FFR study at EuroPCR 2016

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Hemodynamic data from cardiac software developer HeartFlow's fractional flow reserve (FFR) software may help predict which coronary plaques have the potential to rupture, according to data presented at the recent EuroPCR 2016 congress in Paris.

May 23, 2016

Automated quality control improves 3D breast ultrasound

By Eric Barnes

A new technique detects artifacts in automated 3D breast ultrasound at the time of acquisition, enabling sonographers to ensure that images have been acquired adequately before sending patients home, according to a study in the Journal of Medical Imaging.

May 23, 2016

CorTechs partners with Olea on brain software

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Brain imaging software developer CorTechs Labs and software developer Olea Medical are partnering on software to quantify brain volume loss.

May 23, 2016

Dutch reveal new data on recalls in breast screening

By Rebekah Moan

When transitioning from film-screen mammography to full-field digital mammography, going digital increases the number of repeated recalls for the same mammographic abnormality, found a large Dutch study published on 14 May in European Radiology.

May 23, 2016

Ultralow contrast achievable in high-pitch CCTA

By Eric Barnes

How low can a contrast dose go? Researchers have found excellent coronary CT angiography (CCTA) results with ultralow contrast and radiation doses when they tested several protocols with high-pitch dual-source CT scanning.

May 19, 2016

BJR publishes emergency radiology feature

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The current issue of the British Journal of Radiology contains a special feature on a very timely topic -- emergency radiology.

May 18, 2016

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