Clinical Trials

Clinical trials and studies about imaging technology can be found on this channel.

A study led by UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine shows that Black children are 18% less likely to get imaging tests as part of their emergency department visit compared to White children. Hispanic children are 13% less likely to have imaging done than Whites.

News | Pediatric Imaging

Study Shows Black or Hispanic Kids Receive Less Medical Imaging

February 3, 2021 — A study led by UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh School of ...

February 03, 2021

Bright spots indicate that cancer cells have responded to a one-day challenge with estrogen in this positron emission tomography (PET) scan of a woman with breast cancer. In a small study, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that only women whose tumors responded to estrogen challenge benefited from hormone therapy. The findings could help doctors choose the treatments most likely to help their patients. Image courtesy of Farrokh Dehdashti

News | PET Imaging

Imaging Identifies Breast Cancer Patients Unlikely to Benefit from Hormone Therapy

February 3, 2021 — Hormone therapy commonly is given as a targeted treatment for women whose cancer cells carry ...

February 03, 2021

Kaplan–Meier curves for the high-risk individuals and the ones with low or medium risk according to AI-severity. The threshold to assign individuals into a high-risk group was the 2/3 quantile of the AI-severity score computed for patients of the KB development cohort. a Kaplan–Meier curves were obtained for the 150 leftover KB patients from the development cohort. b Kaplan–Meier curves were obtained for the 135 patients of the IGR validation cohort. p-values for the log-rank test were equal to 4.77e–07 (KB

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Integrating Deep Learning CT-scan Model Helps Predict Severity of COVID-19 Patients

February 1, 2021 — COVID-19 vaccine distribution has begun across the globe, while many countries are still struggling ...

February 01, 2021

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Beckman Institute MRI Expertise Aids Research on Hemodialysis Therapy Patients

February 1, 2021 — Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology were part of a collaborative ...

February 01, 2021

Ludwig Chicago Co-director Ralph Weichselbaum and Kaiting Yang, a postdoctoral researcher in Weichselbaum's lab.

News | Radiation Therapy

Ludwig Cancer Research Study Reveals How Certain Gut Bacteria Compromise Radiotherapy

January 28, 2021 — A study led by Ludwig Chicago Co-director Ralph Weichselbaum, M.D., and Yang-Xin Fu, M.D., Ph.D., of ...

January 28, 2021

The four standard views of an individual mammogram were fed into Mirai. The image encoder mapped each view to a vector, and the image aggregator combined the four view vectors into a single vector for the mammogram. In this work, we used a single shared ResNet-18 as an image encoder, and a transformer as our image aggregator. The risk factor predictor module predicted all the risk factors used in the Tyrer-Cuzick model, including age, detailed family history, and hormonal factors, from the mammogram vector.

News | Breast Imaging

Mammogram-based Breast Cancer Risk Model Could Lead to Better Screening Guidelines

January 28, 2021 — A new machine learning algorithm based on mammograms can estimate the risk of breast cancer in women ...

January 28, 2021

Most research on sleep is conducted using electroencephalography (EEG), a method that entails measuring brain activity through electrodes placed along a patient's scalp. However, Anjali Tarun, a doctoral assistant at EPFL's Medical Image Processing Laboratory within the School of Engineering, decided to investigate brain activity during sleep using magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI.

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

MRI Helps Unravel the Mysteries of Sleep

January 26, 2021 — Our state of consciousness changes significantly during stages of deep sleep, just as it does in a ...

January 26, 2021

An additional external-beam radiation dose delivered directly to the tumor can benefit the prospects of men with non-metastatic prostate cancer, without causing additional side effects. The risk of relapse within five years for these men is smaller than for men who did not receive this boost, as shown by a large-scale study initiated by UMC Utrecht in collaboration with the Netherlands Cancer Institute, UZ Leuven and Radboudumc.

News | Prostate Cancer

Radiation Boost Lowers Risk of Prostate Cancer Recurrence

January 25, 2021 — An additional external-beam radiation dose delivered directly to the tumor can benefit the prospects ...

January 25, 2021

News | Ultrasound Imaging

Exact Therapeutics Announces Innovative Probe Development Collaboration With GE Healthcare

January 20, 2021 — Exact Therapeutics, a clinical stage precision medicine company, announced a collaboration with GE ...

January 20, 2021

Clinical utility of Axumin (fluciclovine F 18) being investigated in expanded areas of cancer imaging

News | PET Imaging

Blue Earth Diagnostics Announces Dosing of Initial Patient in Phase 3 REVELATE Clinical Trial of 18F-Fluciclovine PET Imaging for Detection of Recurrent Brain Metastases

January 18, 2021 — Blue Earth Diagnostics, a Bracco company and recognized leader in the development and ...

January 18, 2021

Myocarditis among recovering COVID-19 athletes less common than previously reported

News | Cardiac Imaging

Cardiac MRI Shows Lower Degrees of Myocarditis in Athletes Recovered from COVID-19

January 11, 2021 — In a letter published in the December issue of the American Heart Association's medical journal ...

January 11, 2021

Jeff Elias, MD, is a neurosurgeon at UVA Health and a pioneer in the field of focused ultrasound.

News | Focused Ultrasound Therapy

Focused Ultrasound Shows Promise for Parkinson's Disease

January 8, 2021 — A scalpel-free alternative to brain surgery has the potential to benefit people with Parkinson’s ...

January 08, 2021

World-first techniques for predicting breast cancer risk from mammograms that were developed in Melbourne could revolutionise breast screening by allowing it to be tailored to women at minimal extra cost

News | Mammography

New Mammogram Measures of Breast Cancer Risk Could Revolutionize Screening

January 6, 2021 — World-first techniques for predicting breast cancer risk from mammograms that were developed in ...

January 06, 2021

Now, researchers using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have found potential brain biomarkers of PTSD in people with traumatic brain injury (TBI).

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Brain Imaging Predicts PTSD After Brain Injury

December 31, 2020 — Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a complex psychiatric disorder brought on by physical and/or ...

December 31, 2020

Differences in brain activity between connected and disconnected states of consciousness studied with positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. Activity of the thalamus, anterior (ACC) and posterior cingulate cortices (PCC), and bilateral angular gyri (AG) show the most consistent associa-tions with the state of consciousness (A = general anesthesia, B = sleep). The same brain struc-tures, which are deactivated when the state of consciousness changes to disconnected in general anesthesia or natural sleep

News | PET Imaging

Imaging the Twilight Zone

December 30, 2020 — What happens in the brain when our conscious awareness fades during general anesthesia and normal ...

December 30, 2020

Researchers at the University of Turku have discovered what type of neural mechanisms are the basis for emotional responses to music. Altogether 102 research subjects listened to music that evokes emotions while their brain function was scanned with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The study was carried out in the national PET Centre.

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Music-induced Emotions Can Be Predicted From Brain Scans

December 30, 2020 — Researchers at the University of Turku have discovered what type of neural mechanisms are the basis ...

December 30, 2020

Primary liver cancer is on the rise worldwide, largely due to an increase in hepatitis C infections and chronic liver disease

News | Radiation Therapy

A First-in-human Clinical Trial Shows Microbubbles Augments Radiation in Liver Cancer Patients

December 16, 2020 — Primary liver cancer is on the rise worldwide, largely due to an increase in hepatitis C infections ...

December 16, 2020

MBD2 serves as a viable target against pulmonary fibrosis by inhibiting macrophage M2 program #COVID19 #coronavirus

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Lung Tissue from COVID-19 Patients and Others Reveals Promising Target to Treat Lung Fibrosis

December 7, 2020 — An analysis of lung tissues from patients with different types of pulmonary fibrosis - including ...

December 07, 2020

16% of people believe they have developed a medical condition since the coronavirus crisis started but have not seen a doctor because they worry about getting COVID-19

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Study Shows Decline in Medical Visits Due to COVID-19 Fear

December 7, 2020 — New research* from Zegami, an Oxford based medical image analysis platform, reveals that 29% of ...

December 07, 2020

In this prototype design, no elements are placed over patient's eyes, nose, or mouth, which may improve comfort compared with conventional coils. In this image, identifiable portions of participant's face have been obscured for publication and privacy purposes. Image courtesy of the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS), American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR)

News | Radiology Imaging

Adaptive Image Receive (AIR) Coil from GE Shows Promise for Whole-brain Imaging

December 4, 2020 — According to an article in ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), a prototype 16-channel head ...

December 04, 2020