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Norwegians put spotlight on double reading

By Philip Ward

Interest in the pros and cons of double reading looks set to rise still further, following a new Norwegian study that found using expert second readers and targeting urgent cases resulted in enough clinically important changes to case interpretation to support more widespread use of the technique.

November 17, 2015

Germans gear up for plenary session at RSNA 2015

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The German Radiological Society will present several lectures at RSNA 2015 during a special "Germany presents at RSNA" session.

November 16, 2015

Socioeconomic status weighs heavily in cardiac risk

By Eric Barnes

Germans of lower socioeconomic status have more than twice the risk of developing cardiovascular disease than the better-off -- and the differences may have widened in recent years, according to new research from the 2015 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) meeting in London.

November 16, 2015

AuntMinnieEurope.com Cardiac Imaging Insider

By Eric Barnes

November 15, 2015

Rubidium PET/CT reveals vascular problems in diabetes patients

By Eric Barnes

Danish researchers have found high rates of microvascular disease using PET/CT with a rubidium radiopharmaceutical in diabetes patients without symptoms of heart disease. The disease was exacerbated in the setting of albuminuria, a common condition in these patients, according to a new study in Diabetologia.

November 15, 2015

Combined cardiac catheter treats and monitors

By Cynthia E. Keen

A proof-of-concept experiment with a combined high-intensity focused ultrasound and local harmonic motion imaging catheter has shown that the minimally invasive catheter can function as a therapeutic and monitoring tool for cardiac ablation, Canadian researchers found.

November 15, 2015

Italians pinpoint coronary plaque rupture risks

By Eric Barnes

Coronary plaque rupture and thin-cap fibroatheroma are common in patients with coronary artery disease, for whom clinical factors and bad habits like smoking increase the risk even more, according to an Italian meta-analysis in the European Heart Journal -- Cardiovascular Imaging.

November 12, 2015

fMRI may explain why some comatose patients reawaken

By Wayne Forrest

By using functional MRI (fMRI) to view regions of the brain that play a role in regulating consciousness, French researchers may have discovered a way to predict which patients could emerge from a coma.

November 11, 2015

New breast MRI scoring system rivals BI-RADS

By Rebekah Moan

A new, simple scoring system for breast MRI not only compensates for reader experience, it also gives BI-RADS a run for its money, researchers from Austria found. Known as Tree, the scoring system shows high diagnostic accuracy in mass and nonmass lesions and also improves diagnostic accuracy in nonexpert readers.

November 10, 2015

Lego MRI: Reducing kids' anxiety, brick by brick

By Dr. Benjamin H. Taragin

A creative group of U.S. and Dutch radiologists is using Lego models to put children at ease in the MRI suite, and the idea is catching on fast. The goal is for patients to complete the study without the need for sedation.

November 10, 2015

Shimadzu launches new angiography application

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Shimadzu has released a new angiography application designed to reduce treatment times and the amount of contrast media used.

November 5, 2015

Breast ultrasound helps mammography find more cancer

By Frances Rylands-Monk

Adding ultrasound to mammography screening detects more early invasive breast cancer and probably reduces mortality, according to a 4 November study in the journal Lancet. The Japanese trial is thought to be the first of its kind in a large, randomized, multicenter population with a focus on younger, average-risk women.

November 4, 2015

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