Pediatric Imaging

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At the urging of the American College of Radiology (ACR) and others, the US Food and Drug Administration will now recommend thyroid monitoring only for high-risk young children who receive intravascular iodine-containing contrast media for thyroid dysfunction

News | Pediatric Imaging

ACR-Backed FDA Action to Monitor Young At-Risk Children Who Receive Iodinated Contrast Media

April 28, 2023 — At the urging of the American College of Radiology (ACR) and others, the US Food and Drug ...

April 28, 2023

An award-winning Scientific Online Poster presented during the 2023 ARRS Annual Meeting on the island of Oahu explained how the novel technique of three-dimensional (3D) slice-to-volume (SVR) MRI allows for precise delineation and measurement of the fetal optic pathway (FOP).

News | ARRS

3D SVR MRI Helps Delineate FetalOptic Nerve Pathway

April 18, 2023 — An award-winning Scientific Online Poster presented during the 2023 ARRS Annual Meeting on the island ...

April 18, 2023

Neonatology team of the University Hospital Bonn publishes findings

News | Pediatric Imaging

World's First Studies with Bedside Portable MRI in Pediatric ECMO Patients

April 6, 2023 — The neonatology team at Bonn University Hospital (UKB) has conducted the world's first study of children ...

April 06, 2023

Carestream Health announced new innovations in its long-length imaging digital radiography (DR) detector that are aimed at improving patient comfort, productivity and efficiency.

News | Digital Radiography (DR)

Carestream Unveils Next Generation Detector in Long-Length Digital Imaging

December 30, 2022 — Carestream Health announced new innovations in its long-length imaging digital radiography (DR) ...

December 30, 2022

Tornado diagram shows minimum and maximum costs according to hospital and activity. Depicted minimum and maximum costs are derived by using minimum and maximum time durations for each hospital and activity.

News | Pediatric Imaging

Pediatric Outpatient Noncontrast Brain MRI: A Cost Analysis at Three U.S. Hospitals

December 23, 2022 — Findings from an accepted manuscript published in ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) have ...

December 23, 2022

Designed to provide users with a multi-departmental imaging solution, the BodyTom 64 combines innovation and power to elevate the diagnostic experience. (Photo: Business Wire)

News | Computed Tomography (CT)

NeuroLogica Announces FDA 510(k) Clearance of BodyTom 64

November 30, 2022 — NeuroLogica Corp., a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., announced that its head-to-toe ...

November 30, 2022

Figure 2. The cortical thickness of prefrontal regions is negatively associated with weight and BMI measurements, meaning that higher weight and BMI are related to lower cortical thickness.

News | Pediatric Imaging

Obesity Linked to Poor Brain Health in Children

November 28, 2022 — Using MRI data from the largest long-term study of brain development and child health in the United ...

November 28, 2022

Figure 1. Volume changes in patients with ADHD. Children with ADHD tend to have lower cortical volume, especially in temporal and frontal lobes.

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Researchers Identify Brain Markers of ADHD in Children

November 23, 2022 — Researchers analyzing the data from MRI exams on nearly 8,000 children have identified biomarkers of ...

November 23, 2022

Figure 1. Left: Fetal brain post-intrauterine alcohol exposure in fetus between 25 and 29 gestational weeks. Note the smooth cortex in frontoparietal and temporal lobes. Right: Brain of matched healthy control case in fetus between 25 and 28 gestational weeks. The superior temporal sulcus is already bilaterally formed (red arrows) and appears deeper on the right hemisphere than on the left.

News | Pediatric Imaging

Drinking During Pregnancy Changes Baby’s Brain Structure

November 22, 2022 — A new MRI study revealed that consumption of alcohol even in low to moderate amounts during ...

November 22, 2022

33-year-old patient (gestational age, 30 weeks and 6 days), without in utero opioid exposure, who underwent fetal MRI

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MRI Findings in Opioid-Exposed Fetuses Show Smaller Brain Size

September 29, 2022 — According to an open-access Editor’s Choice article in ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR ...

September 29, 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

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

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Jack Martin Fund Gives $3.5 Million to Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital to Establish State-of-the-Art Child and Adolescent Imaging Center

August 3, 2022 — The Jack Martin Fund (JMF) has built on its partnership with the Mount Sinai Health System to provide ...

August 03, 2022

UNC School of Medicine researchers documented significant decrease in neural flexibility across the entire brain of children with ADHD and throughout sub-networks considered crucial to cognitive flexibility

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Researchers Use MRI to Show Brain Changes, Differences in Children with ADHD

July 27, 2022 — Multitasking is not just an office skill. It’s key to functioning as a human, and it involves something ...

July 27, 2022

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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Mourns Loss of Zoltan Patay, MD, PhD

July 27, 2022 — St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has announced that Zoltan Patay, MD, PhD, Department of Diagnostic ...

July 27, 2022

(A) Axial and (B) coronal reformatted images from CT performed with IV contrast material show segmental visualization of main pancreatic duct (arrow). One of three reviewers described main duct dilation as present. Agreement among reviewers on CT for main duct dilatation was substantial (κ=0.63).

News | Pediatric Imaging

CT, MRI for Pediatric Pancreatitis

March 9, 2022 — According to an open-access Editor’s Choice article in ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) ...

March 09, 2022

The LEGO Foundation has announced it will donate 600 LEGO MRI Scanners to hospitals worldwide to help children cope with the uncertainty of having a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan.

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

The LEGO Foundation Donates LEGO MRI Scanners to Hospitals

February 23, 2022 — The LEGO Foundation has announced it will donate 600 LEGO MRI Scanners to hospitals worldwide to ...

February 23, 2022

Dr. Lee will be formally recognized as the 2022 ARRS Gold Medalist during the opening ceremony of the ARRS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA on Sunday, May 1, 2022. Image courtesy of Dr. Edward Y. Lee, American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS), American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR)

News | Radiology Business

American Roentgen Ray Society awards 2022 ARRS Gold Medal to Edward Lee

February 4, 2022 — The American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) announced that Edward Y. Lee, MD, MPH of Boston Children’s ...

February 04, 2022

Orlando Simonetti (right) works with MRI technologist Heather Hermiller to operate a new FDA-approved MRI machine that he helped develop. The machine has a lower magnetic field and larger patient opening, expanding access to patients who were previously unable to undergo MRI.

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

New FDA-approved MRI Expands Access to Life-saving Imaging

January 18, 2022 — Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful medical tool that provides detailed images of ...

January 18, 2022

According to an article in ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), whole-spine MRI commonly demonstrates isolated thoracolumbar injuries in children with suspected abusive head trauma. #childabuse #pediatricimaging

News | Pediatric Imaging

Whole Spine MRI in Suspected Child Abuse

January 12, 2022 — According to an article in ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), whole-spine MRI commonly ...

January 12, 2022

Newborn babies with heart defects frequently exhibit abnormal extracardiac development of the brain or other organs as well. Fetal MRI, a magnetic resonance imaging procedure that can be performed on the unborn child, can detect these abnormalities at an early stage.

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Fetal MRI is a Valuable Adjunct to Ultrasound in Detecting Abnormal Extracardiac Development in Fetuses with Congenital Heart Defects

December 24, 2021 — Newborn babies with heart defects frequently exhibit abnormal extracardiac development of the brain ...

December 24, 2021