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Industry leaders to research the growing importance of point-of-care ultrasound in COVID-19 care
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Fujifilm Sonosite and EMF Partner in the Battle Against COVID-19

July 2, 2020 —Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc. and the Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization ...

Time July 02, 2020
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R2* maps of healthy control participants and participants with Alzheimer disease. R2* maps are windowed between 10 and 50 sec21. Differences in iron concentration in basal ganglia are too small to allow visual separation between patients with Alzheimer disease and control participants, and iron levels strongly depend on anatomic structure and subject age. Image courtesy of Radiological Society of North America
News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Brain Iron Accumulation Linked to Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's Patients

July 1, 2020 — Researchers using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have found that iron accumulation in the outer layer ...

Time July 01, 2020
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Thoracic findings in a 15-year-old girl with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C). (a) Chest radiograph on admission shows mild perihilar bronchial wall cuffing. (b) Chest radiograph on the third day of admission demonstrates extensive airspace opacification with a mid and lower zone predominance. (c, d) Contrast-enhanced axial CT chest of the thorax at day 3 shows areas of ground-glass opacification (GGO) and dense airspace consolidation with air bronchograms. (c) This conformed to a mosai
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)
New Study Looks at Post-COVID-19 Emerging Disease in Children

June 26, 2020 — In recent weeks, a multisystem hyperinflammatory condition has emerged in children in association with ...

Time June 26, 2020
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Case abstraction study period was from 10 March to 7 April 2020. Follow-up of abstracted cases was until 7 May 2020.
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)
MSK Researchers Find That Common Cancer Treatments Don't Worsen Coronavirus Infection

June 25, 2020 — The characterization of COVID-19 in patients with cancer remains limited in published studies and ...

Time June 25, 2020
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Neurosurgeon Jason Sheehan, M.D., Ph.D., of UVA Health, is pioneering the use of focused ultrasound to treat glioblastoma, the deadliest brain tumor. Image courtesy of UVA Health
News | Focused Ultrasound Therapy
Focused Ultrasound Shows Promise Against Deadliest Brain Tumor

June 23, 2020 — An innovative use of focused ultrasound being pioneered at the University of Virginia School of Medicine ...

Time June 23, 2020
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This image of DCE-MRI reveals persistent blood brain barrier disorder in American football players. Using brain imaging techniques and analytical methods, researchers can determine whether football players have CTE by measuring leakage of the blood-brain barrier. Image courtesy of Ben-Gurion University
News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
MRI Test for Football Players Could Detect CTE

June 22, 2020 — Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative disease caused by repeated head injuries ...

Time June 22, 2020
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Researchers from five infectious disease hospitals across four districts in Guangzhou, China found that the less pulmonary consolidation on chest CT, the greater the possibility of negative initial reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) results for 21 patients (nine men, 12 women; age range, 26–90 years)
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Chest CT Can Distinguish Negative From Positive Lab Results for COVID-19

June 18, 2020 — An open-access American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) article exploring the diagnostic value of chest ...

Time June 18, 2020
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"Insights on the Worldwide Handheld Ultrasound Imaging Devices Industry to 2030 - Impact of COVID-19 on the Market" features an extensive study of the current market landscape, offering an informed opinion on the likely adoption of such compact diagnostic devices, over the next decade. The report features an in-depth analysis, highlighting the capabilities of various stakeholders engaged in this domain.
News | Ultrasound Imaging
Insights on the Worldwide Handheld Ultrasound Imaging Devices Industry

June 17, 2020 —"Insights on the Worldwide Handheld Ultrasound Imaging Devices Industry to 2030 - Impact of COVID-19 on ...

Time June 17, 2020
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Philips connects oncologists and pathologists around the world to MD Anderson’s Precision Oncology Decision Support (PODS) system of actionable clinical information
News | Clinical Decision Support
Philips and MD Anderson Collaborate to Provide Oncologists with Evidence-based Therapy, Clinical Trial Guidance

June 16, 2020 — Philips and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center announced a collaboration to provide ...

Time June 16, 2020
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Diffusion tractography uses the movement of water molecules to identify tracts that connect different parts of the brain. It can be used to pinpoint the part of the thalamus to treat with focused ultrasound. Image courtesy of UT Southwestern Medical Center
News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Advanced MRI scans may improve treatment of tremor, Parkinson's disease

June 15, 2020 — Recently developed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques used to more precisely target a small ...

Time June 15, 2020
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Random Walk Imaging (RWI), a company developing novel software solutions for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), announced positive data today from a study in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients using its proprietary scanning method and software protocol.
News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Random Walk Imaging’s Software Protocol Enables Detection of White Matter Damage in MS Patients’ Brain Tissue

June 11, 2020 — Random Walk Imaging (RWI), a company developing novel software solutions for magnetic resonance imaging ...

Time June 11, 2020
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The thickness of the cartilage covering the end of each bone is colour-coded, with red areas denoting thinner cartilage and green-blue areas denoting thicker cartilage. The technique helps locate where arthritis is affecting the joint over time.
News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Improved MRI Scans Could Aid in Development of Arthritis Treatments

June 11, 2020 — An algorithm that analyzes magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images and automatically detects small ...

Time June 11, 2020
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Early diagnosis of cancer is one of the highest-priority problem for the healthcare system, because it is critical for overall treatment success and saving patients' lives. Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) may be used to detect a malignancy in various tissues and organs. It has the advantage of providing insight into the diffusion of water molecules in body tissues without exposing patients to radiation.
News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
MRI Technique Developed to Improve Detection of Tumors

June 2, 2020 — Early diagnosis of cancer is one of the highest-priority problem for the healthcare system, because it is ...

Time June 02, 2020
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a Schematic of the system. The entire solid tumour is illuminated from four sides by a four-arm fibre bundle. A cylindrically focused linear array is designed to detect optoacoustic signals from the tumour. In vivo imaging is performed in conical scanning geometry by controlling the rotation and translation stages. The sensing part of the transducer array and the tumour are submerged in water to provide acoustic coupling. b Maximum intensity projections of the optoacoustic reconstruction of a phantom of pol
News | Breast Imaging
High-resolution 3-D View Inside Breast Tumors

May 26, 2020 — Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. But individual tumors can vary significantly ...

Time May 26, 2020
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A new technique developed by researchers at UC Davis offers a significant advance in using magnetic resonance imaging to pick out even very small tumors from normal tissue. The team created a probe that generates two magnetic resonance signals that suppress each other until they reach the target, at which point they both increase contrast between the tumor and surrounding tissue
News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
New Double-contrast Technique Picks Up Small Tumors on MRI

May 26, 2020 — Researchers at the University of California, Davis offers a significant advance in using magnetic ...

Time May 26, 2020
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Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have surveyed the amount of gadolinium found in river water in Tokyo. Gadolinium is contained in contrast agents given to patients undergoing medical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, and it has been shown in labs to become toxic when exposed to ultraviolet rays. The researchers found significantly elevated levels, particularly near water treatment plants, highlighting the need for new public policy and removal technologies as MRI become even more commonp
News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
MRI's Environmental Impact

May 26, 2020 — Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have surveyed the amount of gadolinium found in river ...

Time May 26, 2020
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Remote reading of imaging studies on home picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) workstations can contribute to social distancing, protect vulnerable radiologists and others in the hospital, and ensure seamless interpretation capabilities in emergency scenarios, according to an open-access article published ahead-of-print by the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR).
News | PACS
Work-from-Home PACS Enables Social Distancing During Pandemic

May 21, 2020 — Remote reading of imaging studies on home picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) workstations ...

Time May 21, 2020
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Examples of chest CT images of COVID-19 (+) patients and visualization of features correlated to COVID-19 positivity. For each pair of images, the left image is a CT image showing the segmented lung used as input for the CNN (convolutional neural network algorithm) model trained on CT images only, and the right image shows the heatmap of pixels that the CNN model classified as having SARS-CoV-2 infection (red indicates higher probability). (a) A 51-year-old female with fever and history of exposure to SARS-
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Mount Sinai First in U.S. to Use AI to Analyze Coronavirus Patients

May 19, 2020 — Mount Sinai researchers are the first in the country to use artificial intelligence (AI) combined with ...

Time May 19, 2020
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Now a research team — led by Tohoku University Professor, Wataru Yashiro — has developed a new method using intense synchrotron radiation that produces higher quality images within milliseconds.
News | Computed Tomography (CT)
Unlocking the Gate to the Millisecond CT

May 15, 2020 — Many will undergo a computed tomography (CT) scan at some point in their lifetime — being slid in and out ...

Time May 15, 2020
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Colored areas of the brain represent regions where the loss of brain synapses in people with early-stage Alzheimer’s was greater than people with normal cognitive function.
News | PET Imaging
New Imaging Tool Helps Researchers See Extent of Alzheimer's Early Damage

May 14, 2020 — New imaging technology allows scientists to see the widespread loss of brain synapses in early stages of ...

Time May 14, 2020
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