Coronavirus (COVID-19)

This page contains medical information for clinicians on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19, also called 2019-nCoV and now clinically SARS‐CoV‐2). This section includes articles on medical imaging of the virus for radiologists, new technologies being deployed to fight the virus and clinical information from various sources. Here are direct links for medical professionals to COVID-19 resources from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Daily world-wide statistics on the coronavirus outbreak are available from the WHO Situations Reports. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) frequently asked questions and answers (FAQs) for healthcare providers regarding Medicare payment for laboratory tests and other services related to the COVID-19

CT of Coronavirus Disease Versus CT of Influenza Virus Pneumonia

July 10, 2020 — An open-access American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) article investigating the differences in...
Functional MRI Provides Encouraging Results in Unresponsive COVID-19 Patient

July 8, 2020 — Many patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) remain unresponsive after surviving critical illness.
How COVID-19 Affects the Brain in Neuroimaging

Four recent radiology studies, from New York, Italy, Iran and China, show how COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) impacts the brain of some infected patients.
The Continued Impact of COVID-19 on the Imaging Industry

New QuickPoLL survey results are available on how radiologists feel about current business and the impact of
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 prior exposure or infection to SARS-CoV-2.

Artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted software was used to identify inflammatory tissues in lung and automatically segment inflammatory lesions. Three-dimensional image shows regions of COVID-19 pneumonia in lung through AI postprocessing. Image courtesy of the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR)

Artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted software was used to identify inflammatory tissues in lung and automatically segment inflammatory lesions. Three-dimensional image shows regions of COVID-19 pneumonia in lung through AI postprocessing. Image courtesy of the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR)

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | July 10, 2020

CT of Coronavirus Disease Versus CT of Influenza Virus Pneumonia

July 10, 2020 — An open-access American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) article investigating the differences in...

A lung CT of a COVID-19 patient, showing ground-glass opacities in the lung from COVID pneumonia. Image courtesy of John Kim.

A lung CT of a COVID-19 patient, showing ground-glass opacities in the lung from COVID pneumonia. Image courtesy of John Kim.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | July 09, 2020

Free Web-based Lung and COVID-19 Imaging Data Management System Offered by PenRad

July 9, 2020 — With increased lung CT exam paradigms being used in the current COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak, and an...

World's largest radiation oncology meeting will offer full conference on interactive platform October 25-28, 2020

News | ASTRO | July 09, 2020

ASTRO to Host Virtual Annual Meeting in October

July 9, 2020 — Registration opens today for the American Society for Radiation Oncology's (ASTRO) 62nd Annual Meeting,...

Signs for "Heroes work here" outside healthcare facilities and even the homes of clinicians have popped up across the country. This photo shows healthcare workers at the Lenox Health emergency room entrance being greeted to cheers and thanks for their essential service during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City at a public thank you event May 21, 2020.

Signs for "Heroes work here" outside healthcare facilities and even the homes of clinicians have popped up across the country. This photo shows healthcare workers at the Lenox Health emergency room entrance being greeted to cheers and thanks for their essential service during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City at a public thank you event May 21, 2020.

Blog | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | July 08, 2020

The Pandemic’s Toll on Radiology

Radiology, like all the departments in hospitals and clinics, has undergone significant changes since early-2020,...

Many patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) remain unresponsive after surviving critical illness. Investigators led by a team at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) now describe a patient with severe COVID-19 who, despite prolonged unresponsiveness and structural brain abnormalities, demonstrated functionally intact brain connections and weeks later he recovered the ability to follow commands

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News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | July 08, 2020

Functional MRI Provides Encouraging Results in Unresponsive COVID-19 Patient

July 8, 2020 — Many patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) remain unresponsive after surviving...

This is Figure 2 from the article in Radiology: Acute encephalopathy. A 60 year-old-man without history of seizures presenting with convulsion. (A-B) Multifocal areas of FLAIR hyperintensity in the right cerebellum (arrows in A), left anterior cingular cortex and superior frontal gyrus (arrows in B). (C-D) Restricted diffusion in the left anterior cingulate cortex, superior frontal and middle temporal gyrus (arrows in D) and right cerebellum (arrows in E), consistent with cerebellar diaschisis. F) #COVID19

This is Figure 2 from the article in Radiology: Acute encephalopathy. A 60 year-old-man without history of seizures presenting with convulsion. (A-B) Multifocal areas of FLAIR hyperintensity in the right cerebellum (arrows in A), left anterior cingular cortex and superior frontal gyrus (arrows in B). (C-D) Restricted diffusion in the left anterior cingulate cortex, superior frontal and middle temporal gyrus (arrows in D) and right cerebellum (arrows in E), consistent with cerebellar diaschisis. F) No hemosiderin deposits in gradient echo sequences.

Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | July 06, 2020 | Dave Fornell, Editor

How COVID-19 Affects the Brain in Neuroimaging

Four recent radiology studies, from New York, Italy, Iran and China, show how COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) impacts the brain ...

Industry leaders to research the growing importance of point-of-care ultrasound in COVID-19 care

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | July 02, 2020

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...

This data represents wave 2 of a QuickPoLL survey conducted in partnership with an imagePRO panel created by The MarkeTech Group (TMTG), regarding the effects of COVID-19 on their business

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Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | July 01, 2020 | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane

The Continued Impact of COVID-19 on the Imaging Industry

New QuickPoLL survey results are available on how radiologists feel about current business and the impact of COVID-19,...

DiA’s new AI-based LVivo RV enables rapid assessment of right ventricle dysfunction in COVID-19 patients, while LVivo Bladder supports clinicians with automated bladder volume analysis to minimize scan time and risk of infection

News | Artificial Intelligence | June 30, 2020

DiA Granted FDA Approvals for New COVID-19-related AI Solutions

June 30, 2020 — DiA Imaging Analysis, a leading provider of advanced AI-based solutions for ultrasound analysis,...

In new QuickPoLL survey on imaging during the pandemic, responses were tallied from around 170 radiology administrators and business managers, who are part of an imagePRO panel created by The MarkeTech Group (TMTG), regarding the effects of COVID-19 on their business. TMTG is a research firm specializing in the medical device, healthcare and pharmaceutical industries.

Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | June 30, 2020 | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane

Insight on the Impact of COVID-19 on Medical Imaging

The true impact that COVID-19 has had on the medical imaging industry still remains to be seen, as hospitals and...

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

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 mosaic pattern with a bronchocentric distribution to the GGO (white arrow, d) involving both central and peripheral lung parenchyma with pleural effusions (black small arrow, d). image courtesy of Radiological Society of North America

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | June 26, 2020

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...

Case abstraction study period was from 10 March to 7 April 2020. Follow-up of abstracted cases was until 7 May 2020.

Case abstraction study period was from 10 March to 7 April 2020. Follow-up of abstracted cases was until 7 May 2020. Courtesy of Nature Medicine

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | June 25, 2020

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...

The American College of Radiology (ACR) Center for Research and Innovation (CRI) is pleased to announce the development of the COVID-19 Imaging Research Registry (CIRR), an effort by the ACR CRI and the ACR Data Science Institute in collaboration with the ACR and the Society of Thoracic Radiology (STR). Sharyn Katz, M.D., director of research for thoracic radiology at the University of Pennsylvania, chairs the effort’s multiple-disciplinary steering committee, which includes representation from across the i

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News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | June 25, 2020

ACR Announces COVID-19 Imaging Research Registry

June 25, 2020 — The American College of Radiology (ACR) Center for Research and Innovation (CRI) is pleased to announce...

The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and the RSNA COVID-19 AI Task Force today announced the launch of the RSNA International COVID-19 Open Radiology Database (RICORD). RICORD is envisioned as the largest open database of anonymized COVID-19 medical images in the world.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | June 25, 2020

RSNA Launches International COVID-19 Open Radiology Database

June 25, 2020 — The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and the RSNA COVID-19 AI Task Force today announced...

he FDA launched the first “FDA Insight” podcast, featuring FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn, M.D., and FDA Deputy Commissioner for Medical and Scientific Affairs Anand Shah, M.D., discussing FDA's COVID-19 efforts, including the drug development process for a COVID-19 treatment.

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News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | June 25, 2020

FDA Launches "FDA Insight" Podcast Featuring FDA Commissioner

June 25, 2020 — The FDA launched the first “FDA Insight” podcast, featuring FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn, M.D., and...

Members of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) shared their concerns, insights and predictions with their Society to help in understanding the needs of radiologists during and following the global pandemic.

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News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | June 24, 2020

RSNA Members Share Insights and Outlooks on COVID-19

June 24, 2020 — Members of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) shared their concerns, insights and...

Signs for "Heroes work here" outside healthcare facilities and even the homes of clinicians have popped up across the country. This photo shows healthcare workers at the Lenox Health emergency room entrance being greeted to cheers and thanks for their essential service during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City at a public thank you event May 21, 2020.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | June 24, 2020

High Levels of Distress Reported During Height of COVID-19

June 24, 2020 — During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, health care workers on the front lines had...

Stephen M. Hahn, M.D., Commissioner of Food and Drugs - Food and Drug Administration

Stephen M. Hahn, M.D., Commissioner of Food and Drugs - Food and Drug Administration

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | June 23, 2020

FDA Keeps on Track With Medical Product Application Goals

June 23, 2020 — On June 23, 2020, Stephen M. Hahn, M.D., Commissioner of Food and Drugs, released a statement regarding...

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)

Comparison of CT features between groups with negative and positive initial RT-PCR results.
aThe difference was statistically significant in comparison of the two groups (p < 0.05).

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | June 18, 2020

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...