Clinical Trials

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

Experimental Protocol and Representative MRI of Brains at Various Key Points in That Protocol.

Scientists Show MRI Predicts the Efficacy of a Stem Cell Therapy for Brain Injury

May 13, 2020 — Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute and Loma Linda University Health have ...

May 13, 2020

Richard J. Price, Ph.D., of the University of Virginia's School of Medicine and School of Engineering, is using focused soundwaves to overcome the natural 'blood-brain barrier,' which protects the brain from harmful pathogens. Photo courtesy of Dan Addison | UVA Communications

News | Focused Ultrasound Therapy

Focused Ultrasound Opening Brain to Previously Impossible Treatments

May 7, 2020 — University of Virginia researchers are pioneering the use of focused ultrasound to defy the brain's ...

May 07, 2020

People with cancer who develop COVID-19 are much more likely to die from the disease than those without cancer, according to physician-researchers at Montefiore Health System and Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Cancer Patients Face High Mortality from COVID-19

May 5, 2020 — People with cancer who develop COVID-19 are much more likely to die from the disease than those without ...

May 05, 2020

#COVID19 #Coronavirus #2019nCoV #Wuhanvirus #SARScov2 OneOncology says clinical trial accruals increase in the face of COVID-19

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Clinical Trial Accruals Have Increased in the Face of COVID-19

April 17, 2020 — OneOncology, the national partnership of independent community oncologists, said today that enrolling ...

April 17, 2020

#COVID19 #Coronavirus #2019nCoV #Wuhanvirus #SARScov2 According to the 10 authors from multiple institutions across the US who reviewed the most frequently cited studies on the subject: 'Test performance and management issues arise when inappropriate and potentially overreaching conclusions regarding the diagnostic performance of CT for COVID-19 pneumonia are based on low-quality studies with biased cohorts, confounding variables, and faulty design characteristics.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

A Review of Studies Cautions Against Chest CT for Coronavirus Diagnosis

April 17, 2020 — To date, the radiology literature on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pneumonia has consisted of limited ...

April 17, 2020

#COVID19 #Coronavirus #2019nCoV #Wuhanvirus #SARScov2 New studies use SIRD model to forecast COVID-19 spread; examine patient CT scans to correlate clinical features with mortality

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Two Studies Use SIRD Model to Forecast COVID-19 Spread

April 1, 2020 — A new study, Data-based analysis, modelling and forecasting of the COVID-19 outbreak, published March 31 ...

April 01, 2020

A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute shows an important predictor of PET-CT use

News | PET-CT

African Americans, Hispanics Less Likely to Receive Recommended Lung Cancer Imaging

March 12, 2020 — The use of PET-CT imaging gives doctors the best possible picture of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) ...

March 12, 2020

SoftVue image stacks of sound speed, as shown for cases ranging across the four Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) breast density categories

News | Breast Imaging

Study Finds Potential of Whole Breast Ultrasound Tomography to Improve Breast Cancer Risk Assessment

March 10, 2020 — Delphinus Medical Technologies, Inc., a leader in advanced breast ultrasound technology, announced that ...

March 10, 2020

Schematic depiction of the automated process for assessing fat, muscle, liver, aortic calcification, and bone from original abdominal CT scan data

News | Computed Tomography (CT)

Automated CT Biomarkers Predict Cardiovascular Events Better Than Current Practice

March 6, 2020 — Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and the University of Wisconsin have demonstrated that ...

March 06, 2020

M. Minhaj Siddiqui, M.D., associate professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, discusses benefits of MRI-targeted biopsy to more precisely diagnose aggressive prostate cancers

News | Prostate Cancer

Adding MRI-targeted Biopsy Leads to More Reliable Diagnosis of Aggressive Prostate Cancer

March 5, 2020 — Using a combination of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to target and sample suspicious prostate tissue ...

March 05, 2020

Christopher Comstock, M.D., ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group study published in JAMA builds evidence for use of abbreviated MRI in women with dense breasts

News | Breast Imaging

Abbreviated MRI Outperforms 3-D Mammograms at Finding Cancer in Dense Breasts

February 26, 2020 — According to a study published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association ...

February 26, 2020

An example of the MRI scans showing long-term and short-term survival indications. #MRI

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Finding New Clues to Brain Cancer Treatment

February 21, 2020 — Glioblastoma is an aggressive, killer disease. While victims of this fast-moving brain tumor ...

February 21, 2020

A cutting-edge magnet resonance imaging (MRI) technique to detect iron deposits in different brain regions can track declines in thinking, memory and movement in people with Parkinson's disease #Parkinsons #MRI

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Iron in Brain Shows Cognitive Decline in People with Parkinson's

February 21, 2020 — A cutting-edge magnet resonance imaging (MRI) technique to detect iron deposits in different brain ...

February 21, 2020

Arizona State University researchers (in collaboration with Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center) have discovered a biocompatible cost-effective hydrogel that can be used to monitor therapeutic doses of ionizing radiation by becoming more pink with increasing radiation exposure

News | Radiation Therapy

A New Way to Monitor Cancer Radiation Therapy Doses

February 18, 2020 — More than half of all cancer patients undergo radiation therapy and the dose is critical. Too much ...

February 18, 2020

Accuray TomoTherapy total body irradiation

News | Radiation Therapy

Studies Support Use of Accuray TomoTherapy System for Advanced Rectal Cancer

February 7, 2020 — Accuray Incorporated announced that two new studies demonstrate the benefits of the TomoTherapy ...

February 07, 2020

News | Clinical Trials

Advanced Medical Imaging Combined with Genomic Analysis Could Help Treat Cancer Patients

February 3, 2020 — Melding the genetic and cellular analysis of tumors with how they appear in medical images could give ...

February 03, 2020

News | Ultrasound Imaging

AJR Researchers Take Step Toward Automated Triage of Thyroid Cancer

January 30, 2020 — According to an article published ahead-of-print in the April issue of the American Journal of ...

January 30, 2020

Virtual reality during chemotherapy has been shown to improve breast cancer patients’ quality of life during the most stressful treatments

News | Virtual and Augmented Reality

First Italian-American Study on Virtual Reality and Breast Cancer Shows Promising Results

January 21, 2020 — Virtual reality during chemotherapy has been shown to improve breast cancer patients’ quality of life ...

January 21, 2020

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Tampere University in Finland have developed a method based on artificial intelligence (AI) for histopathological diagnosis and grading of prostate cancer

News | Prostate Cancer

AI Can Be Used to Detect and Grade Prostate Cancer

January 20, 2020 — Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Tampere University in Finland have developed a ...

January 20, 2020

News | Prostate Cancer

Prostate Cancer can now be Diagnosed Better Using Artificial Intelligence

January 13, 2020 — Researchers at Radboud university medical center have developed a "deep learning" system that is ...

January 13, 2020