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
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News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | August 13, 2020
August 13, 2020 — There was a higher incidence and severity of physical intimate partner violence (IPV) among patients...
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | August 12, 2020
August 12, 2020 — As healthcare providers and essential personnel work on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, the...
Videos | Computed Tomography (CT) | August 11, 2020
Todd Villines, M.D., FACC, FAHA, MSCCT, explains some of the discussion on CT used for COVID-19 patients at the Society...
An oncologist practices social distancing while talking to a cancer patient. Image courtesy of University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | August 07, 2020
August 7, 2020 — When COVID-19 struck, health care pivoted hard. Any unnecessary procedures or appointments were...
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News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | August 05, 2020
August 5, 2020 — The nation’s largest medical imaging associations are working together to develop the new Medical...
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News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | August 04, 2020
August 4, 2020 — The American College of Radiology (ACR) Center for Research and Innovation (CRI) will serve as the...
Sponsored Content | Blog | Remote Viewing Systems | August 04, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way radiologists read images and today facilities struggle to define a “new...
Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | August 03, 2020 | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane
Imaging volumes in hospitals and practices previously slowed by the coronavirus pandemic continue to hold steady,...
Table 1. JAMA Oncol. Published online July 30, 2020. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.2783
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | July 31, 2020
July 31, 2020 — An article published in JAMA Oncology addresses the delivery of radiotherapy in 209 patients with...
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News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | July 30, 2020
July 30, 2020 — A World Health Organization (WHO) rapid advice guide on the use of chest imaging in the diagnosis and...
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News | Radiation Oncology | July 29, 2020
July 29, 2020 — It has been estimated that the overwhelming focus on COVID-19 could cause up to 35,000 excess cancer...
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | July 28, 2020
July 28, 2020 — ams, a leading worldwide supplier of high performance sensor solutions, has been thanked by long-term...
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | July 24, 2020
July 24, 2020 — The following quote is attributed to Harpreet Singh, M.D., Associate Director, Cancer in Older Adults...
A and B, Lung ultrasound images obtained with convex (A) and linear (B) probes. Multiple confluent B-lines (arrows), patchy pulmonary consolidation (asterisk, B), and thickened pleural line (between arrowheads, A) are visualized. C, Chest CT image shows reticular and interlobular septal thickening and patchy, focal opacities associated with architectural distortion. This patient was classified in critical group and was assigned to severe group for statistical analysis.
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | July 23, 2020
July 23, 2020 — According to an open-access article published in ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), lung...
In I-131 cancer therapy, decay events damage sensitive DNA within a tumor cell nucleus, causing catastrophic single and double strand breaks. Clinical use of antibody-delivered Auger emitters could open a window for the targeted destruction of extracellular COVID-19 virions, decreasing the viral load during active infection and potentially easing the disease burden for a patient. View all figures from this study.
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | July 22, 2020 | Dave Fornell, Editor
July 22, 2020 — One of the first studies has been published that looks at the use of radiation therapy to help treat...
Pre-processing results. Image courtesy of Applied Sciences.
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | July 22, 2020
July 22, 2020 — Researchers from the Department of Computer Architecture and Technology at the University of Seville's...
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | July 20, 2020
July 20, 2020 — Racial/ethnic minority patients admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 infection are more likely to...
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News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | July 17, 2020
July 17, 2020 — Private radiology practices have been especially hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the steps they...
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Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | July 15, 2020 | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane
Imaging volumes in hospitals and practices previously slowed by the coronavirus pandemic continue to improve, according...
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
July 10, 2020 — An open-access American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) article investigating the differences in...
