Clinical Trials

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Blue Earth Therapeutics, a Bracco company and emerging leader in the development of innovative next generation therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Company’s Investigational New Drug Application (IND) application for 177Lu-rhPSMA-10.1.

Blue Earth Therapeutics Announces U.S. FDA Clearance for Investigational New Drug (IND) Application for 177Lu-rhPSMA-10.1

April 19, 2022 — Blue Earth Therapeutics, a Bracco company and emerging leader in the development of innovative next ...

April 19, 2022

BUSM researchers have proposed a method of assigned sex estimation that is “population-inclusive” by using 3D volume-rendered computed tomography scans of ancestry skulls to estimate assigned sex at birth

News | Computed Tomography (CT)

Researchers Use Skull CT Scans to Estimate Assigned Gender at Birth

March 31, 2022 — One of the essential roles of the forensic anthropologist is the development of a biological profile ...

March 31, 2022

Dajiang Zhu (Image courtesy of UT Arlington)

News | Clinical Trials

To Detect Alzheimer’s Earlier, New Research to Map the Brain

March 22, 2022 — A University of Texas at Arlington computer science and engineering assistant professor has received a ...

March 22, 2022

Julia Herzen, Professor of Biomedical Imaging Physics at TUM, working together with her team at the micro-computed tomography scanner. Image courtesy of René Lahn

News | Computed Tomography (CT)

Advances in Micro-computed Tomography

March 15, 2022 — Researchers in biomedical physics and biology have significantly improved micro-computed tomography ...

March 15, 2022

A 3D image of a mouse's lungs, created with the new technique developed at KTH. Image courtesy of KTH Royal Institute of Technology

News | Lung Imaging

Method Offers Sharper Images of Lung Disease in Living Mice

March 10, 2022 — In a first for X-ray imaging, researchers in Sweden generated high resolution, three-dimensional images ...

March 10, 2022

MRI showing the dorsal flow of the brain’s waste clearance system (shown in green). Image courtesy of Dr. Onder Albayram, Medical University of South Carolina

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

A First Glimpse of the Human Brain’s Drains

February 25, 2022 — A joint research team at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and the University of ...

February 25, 2022

Sri-Rajasekhar “Raj” Kothapalli, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Penn State, holds a transparent, biocompatible ultrasound transducer chip, that when hooked to power, stimulates cells. The new ultrasound setup has implications for future cancer and stem cell research. Photo courtesy of Kelby Hochreither/Penn State

News | Ultrasound Imaging

Transparent Ultrasound Chip Improves Cell Stimulation and Imaging

February 25, 2022 — Ultrasound scans, best known for monitoring pregnancies or imaging organs, can also be used to ...

February 25, 2022

Researchers from King's College London have developed a deep learning framework based on convolutional neural networks to flag clinically relevant abnormalities at the time of imaging, in minimally processed, routine, hospital-grade axial T2-weighted head MRI scans.

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

New Machine Learning Model Flags Abnormal Brain Scans in Real-time

February 23, 2022 — Researchers from King's College London have developed a deep learning framework based on ...

February 23, 2022

18F-rhPSMA-7.3 PET Photo courtesy of Blue Earth Diagnostics. General use: This 18F-rhPSMA-7.3 PET image shows prostate cancer spread beyond the prostate region. Technical use: This 18F-rhPSMA-7.3 PET image shows detection of recurrent prostate cancer in several retroperitoneal lymph nodes, as indicated by the green arrows.

News | Prostate Cancer

Blue Earth Diagnostics Announces Key Results from Phase 3 SPOTLIGHT Study of 18F-rhPSMA-7.3

February 18, 2022 — Blue Earth Diagnostics, a Bracco company and recognized leader in the development and ...

February 18, 2022

Boston University College of Engineering professor Xin Zhang and her research collaborators have developed a new, 3-D metamaterial that has the potential to improve MRI imaging of the human brain. The spherical structure can be worn like a helmet, and change size to create images more quickly and at a higher quality – ultimately improving MRI functionality while reducing costs. Image courtesy of Boston University’s Photonics Center, Ke Wu, a PhD student in BU’s department of mechanical engineering and Xin Z

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Bizarre-looking Helmet Can Create Better Brain Scans

February 11, 2022 — It may look like a bizarre bike helmet, or a piece of equipment found in Doc Brown’s lab in Back to ...

February 11, 2022

Before TIL therapy, a woman with breast cancer had metastatic lesions in her chest wall (top, left) and liver (bottom, left). After receiving the immunotherapy, her tumors shrank completely, and recent scans (right) show that she remains cancer free more than five years later.National Cancer Institute

News | Breast Imaging

NIH Study Advances Personalized Immunotherapy for Metastatic Breast Cancer

February 1, 2022 — An experimental form of immunotherapy that uses an individual’s own tumor-fighting immune cells could ...

February 01, 2022

From left-to-right are examples of a true object, a reconstructed estimate of the object produced by use of a U-Net from tomographic measurements, the total error map, the error in the null component of the reconstructed object, and the error in the measurement component of the reconstructed object. The two rows correspond to different objects. In each case, the true object is outside the respective training data distribution of the U-Net and phase noise was added to the measurements prior to image reconstr

News | Radiology Imaging

Investigating Hallucinations in Medical Imaging

January 12, 2022 — Machine-learning methods are being actively developed for computed imaging systems like magnetic ...

January 12, 2022

PET CT image of the Neck showing CA nasopharynx or carcinoma of nasopharynx from PET CT scannner.

News | PET Imaging

Clario and XingImaging Expand Partnership to Deliver PET Imaging Clinical Trials in China

January 11, 2022 — Clario, a technology company that delivers the leading endpoint technology solutions for clinical ...

January 11, 2022

Role of P3HT MW and polyimide substrate thickness on the functionality of curved X-ray detectors. Loading and unloading P–h curves for the a) NP-BHJ films containing different P3HT MW and b) polyimide substrates of different thicknesses. Misfit strain as a function of both radius of curvature and substrate thickness for NP-BHJ film based on c) P3HT A and d) P3HT D. Misfit strain between the film and substrate increases when thinner substrates and lower P3HT MW are used. Photograph indicating the tendency of

News | Radiation Therapy

Safer X-rays and Radiation Therapy a Step Closer Thanks to Surrey Research

December 29, 2021 — Researchers at the University of Surrey have identified key design rules for making curved X-ray ...

December 29, 2021

The high generalization ability of the new neurofeedback (NF) aptitude prediction model developed by scientists from NAIST Japan offers a quick, simple and non-invasive method to screen candidates in clinical settings for whom fMRI-NF training would be most beneficial. Image courtesy of Nara Institute of Science and Technology

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

New Model Can Predict a Patient’s Responsiveness to fMRI-based Mental Health Treatment

December 23, 2021 — Advancements in medical science have allowed the treatment of psychiatric disorders like major ...

December 23, 2021

Vascular network (red) in healthy heart tissue (left) and in severe Covid-19 (right). Due to faulty reforming of the network as a result of Covid-19, numerous branches, splits and even loops develop in the capillaries, which can be analysed mathematically. Image courtesy of M. Reichardt, P. Møller Jensen, T. Salditt

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Innovative X-ray Imaging Shows COVID-19 Can Cause Vascular Damage to the Heart

December 23, 2021 — An interdisciplinary research team from the University of Göttingen and Hannover Medical School (MHH ...

December 23, 2021

Immunolight LLC, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical firm leading the way in advancing technologies to transform cancer treatment, announced today it is now recruiting patients for a phase 1 study of its X-PACT Cancer Treatment system in Breast, Melanoma, Sarcoma and Head and Neck Cancers, to be conducted at Duke University Medical Center.

News | Radiation Oncology

Immunolight, LLC Now Recruiting Patients for Phase 1 Trial of the X-PACT System in Solid Tumors

December 20, 2021 — Immunolight LLC, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical firm leading the way in advancing technologies ...

December 20, 2021

University of Tsukuba researchers have demonstrated a proof-of-concept modification to enable standard MRI systems to detect frequencies associated with the presence of sodium-23 ions. This low-cost and convenient approach requires the installation of a radio-frequency repeater inside the magnetic bore of an MRI machine. The wide applicability of this method for sodium and other nuclei may allow advanced medical imaging to be performed on existing machines, and substantially reduce MRI scanner upgrade costs

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

A New Spin on MRI

December 16, 2021 — Scientists at the University of Tsukuba demonstrated how conventional magnetic resonance imaging ...

December 16, 2021

Videos | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

VIDEO: COVID-19 Linked to Heart Inflammation in College Athletes

Jean Jeudy, M.D., professor of radiology and vice chair of informatics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine ...

December 14, 2021

Per reference-standard diagnosis, TNM stage was IIIA (T3N2M0) and Veterans Administration Lung Cancer Study Group stage was LS. Coronal (A) STIR image and (B) DWI from whole-body MRI.

News | Lung Imaging

MRI, Hybrid Imaging Outperform Conventional Tests for Small Cell Lung Cancer Staging

December 10, 2021 — According to an article in ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), MRI—with or without FDG ...

December 10, 2021