Coronavirus (COVID-19)

This page contains medical information for clinicians on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19, also called 2019-nCoV and now clinically SARS‐CoV‐2). This section includes articles on medical imaging of the virus for radiologists, new technologies being deployed to fight the virus and clinical information from various sources. Here are direct links for medical professionals to COVID-19 resources from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Daily world-wide statistics on the coronavirus outbreak are available from the WHO Situations Reports. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) frequently asked questions and answers (FAQs) for healthcare providers regarding Medicare payment for laboratory tests and other services related to the COVID-19

Three-dimensional segmentation of ginger-root shaped necrotic lesions (yellow) and surrounding vasculature (red) within a sample of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected human lung tissue (transparent surface). Africa Health Research Institute

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Tuberculosis and COVID-19 Lung lesions Revealed by High-Resolution Three-Dimensional Imaging

December 7, 2022 — Gross anatomy reveals three-dimensional shapes of pathology at a large scale. Histology, in contrast ...

December 07, 2022

Feature | Radiology Business | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane

Top 10: November's Most-read Content

Here is a recap of what ITN viewers found most interesting during the month of November: 1. Top 10 Predictions for ...

December 05, 2022

Ultra-high-resolution photon-counting CT reveals bronchiolectasis: Axial CT lung images without contrast agent of a 70-year-old woman with persistent fatigue 401 days after COVID-19: 1.0mm image obtained with energy-integrating detector (EID) CT (A), and 1.0mm (B), 0.4mm (C) and 0.2mm (D) images obtained with photon-counting detector CT at the same level. Bronchiolectasis (white arrow) was not detected by EID CT but was found by PCD-CT. Ground-glass opacity detected in EID CT images (black arrows in A) was

News | Computed Tomography (CT)

Photon-Counting CT Shows More Post-COVID-19 Lung Damage

December 2, 2022 — New CT technology outperforms conventional CT in detecting subtle damage in the lungs of patients ...

December 02, 2022

Figure 1. A 55-year-old female with a history of COVID-19 infection 38 weeks before the date of ultrasound shear wave elastography. The shear wave speed of 1.91 m/s corresponds to Young’s modulus of 10.94 kPa which indicates abnormally high liver stiffness and may reflect chronic liver injury.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

COVID-19 Patients Show Liver Injury Months After Infection

December 1, 2022 — COVID-19 infection is associated with increased liver stiffness, a sign of possible long-term liver ...

December 01, 2022

News | RSNA

Findings from Multiple Long COVID Studies Presented at RSNA 2022

November 30, 2022 — Findings from four separate studies on long-term impacts of COVID-19 were presented during a ...

November 30, 2022

Figure 1. Group analysis on susceptibility-weighted imaging exhibiting higher susceptibility-weighted imaging values in the COVID group when compared to healthy controls. Three significant clusters were found primarily in the white matter regions of the pre-frontal cortex and in the brainstem. The clusters (a) and (b) are observed bilaterally in the cerebral white matter near the orbitofrontal gyrus, whereas (c) lies in the midbrain region.

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

MRI Reveals Significant Brain Abnormalities Post-COVID

November 21, 2022 — Using a special type of MRI, researchers have uncovered brain changes in patients up to six months ...

November 21, 2022

Here is a rundown of what you and your colleagues found to be most interesting in the field of medical imaging during the month of October including #COVID-19 coverage

Feature | Radiology Business | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane

Top 10: Content that Caught Your Eye in October

Here is a rundown of what you and your colleagues found to be most interesting in the field of medical imaging during ...

November 01, 2022

Lasting lung damage is persistently being seen, and studied, using MRI technology in children and teens with long COVID

Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane

Long COVID Syndrome in Children and Teens

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, as of October 6th, over 14.8 million children are reported to have ...

October 31, 2022

What does COVID look like on X-ray, CT, medical imaging? Radiologic presentations of COVID-19. An example of a COVID-19 pneumonia of a chest CT scan. The COVID appears as white ground glass opacities (GGOs) in the lungs. Normal lungs on CT should appear black. #COVID #COVID19 #Coronavirus

Gallery | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | Melinda Taschetta-Millane and Dave Fornell

PHOTO GALLERY: How COVID-19 Appears on Medical Imaging

This photo gallery shows the variety of radiological presentations of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) in medical imaging ...

August 10, 2022

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News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Long COVID Implications: Increased Health Care Use After Infection With SARS-Cov-2

October 20, 2022 — A large study on the impact of long COVID found increased rates of health system use 2 months after ...

October 20, 2022

Free-breathing phase-resolved functional lung (PREFUL) low-field MRI at 0.55T with calculated parameters at an axial plane after automatic registration to a mid-expiration position and lung parenchyma segmentation. From left to right, representative color-coded images of functional show ventilation defects (VDP, blue), perfusion defects (QDP, red), ventilation/perfusion (V/Q match, green), ventilation/perfusion defects (V/Q defect, purple) in a healthy control (upper row, 7-year-old male), a participant rec

Feature | Radiology Business

Top 10: September's Most-read Content

Here is a recap of what ITN viewers found most interesting during the month of September: 1. Lasting Lung Damage Seen in ...

October 03, 2022

The collection of whole-body repeat imaging scans of 60,000 UK Biobank participants will provide researchers with a unique set of longitudinal measures to understand the determinants and progression of disease in mid-to-later life.

News | Radiology Imaging

Public-Private Partnership Announces Ambitious Project to Create the World's Largest Longitudinal Imaging Dataset to Assess Disease Progression

September 27, 2022 — UK Biobank, the large-scale biomedical database and research resource, together with the Medical ...

September 27, 2022

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Lasting Lung Damage Seen in Children and Teens after COVID

September 20, 2022 — Children and adolescents who have either recovered from COVID-19 or have long COVID show persistent ...

September 20, 2022

NIH Image Gallery from Bethesda, Maryland, USA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Anthony Fauci, MD, Announces He is Stepping Down

Anthony S. Fauci, MD, who was instrumental in leading the country through the COVID-19 pandemic, announced today through ...

August 22, 2022

Study Illuminates the Needs of a Growing Homebound Population Struggling With Inequities and Systemic Barriers

News | Teleradiology

When Telemedicine Isn’t the Solution

August 17, 2022 — In a study published today in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, researchers at the Icahn ...

August 17, 2022

Portable digital radiography brought to remote locations in Nepal

Feature | Radiology Business | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane

Top 10: What Viewers Were Reading in July

Here is what you and your colleagues found to be most interesting in the field of medical imaging during the month of ...

August 01, 2022

Rob Fabrizio, director of strategic marketing, medical imaging systems, Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation, demonstrates the FDR Cross, Fujifilm’s newly developed hybrid C-arm and portable X-ray solution designed for intensive care, emergency room and intraoperative use, at #AHRA22.

Feature | AHRA | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane

AHRA Celebrates 50 Years of Medical Imaging

The Association for Medical Imaging Management (AHRA) celebrated its 50th anniversary July 10-13, 2022, in Phoenix. To ...

July 25, 2022

New research outlines potential risk to patients who wear certain types of face masks while undergoing an MRI scan

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Face Masks Unsafe in MRI Machines, Study Shows

July 15, 2022 — Certain types of face masks are unsafe for wearing in and around MRI machines, according to new research ...

July 15, 2022

Telemedicine has expanded rapidly since the beginning of the pandemic and is being increasingly adopted in the medical world to treat neurological, respiratory and cardiovascular diseases

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

COVID-19 Has Accelerated the Adoption of Telemedicine Which is Here to Stay, Says GlobalData

July 7, 2022 — Telemedicine has expanded rapidly since the beginning of the pandemic and is being increasingly adopted ...

July 07, 2022

Here is what you and your colleagues found to be most interesting in the field of medical imaging during the month of June

Feature | Radiology Business | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane

ITN's Top 10 Most-read Content for June

Here is what you and your colleagues found to be most interesting in the field of medical imaging during the month of ...

July 05, 2022