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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Figure 1. Flowchart of patient inclusion and exclusion.
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | October 20, 2020
October 20, 2020 — A new multi-institutional study published in the journal Radiology identifies patterns in abnormal...
Videos | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | October 14, 2020
Professor Christiane Kuhl, M.D., director of radiology, University Hospital Aachen, Germany, explains how the COVID-19...
News | Radiology Business | October 14, 2020
October 14, 2020 — Medtronic, a global leader in medical technology, has been named one of America's most JUST...
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Podcast | Enterprise Imaging | March 17, 2021
Members of the enterprise imaging technology community are facing significant changes in the market, due to the COVID-...
A COVID-19 chest CT heat map from RADlogics
News | Artificial Intelligence | October 13, 2020
October 13, 2020 — Given recent high-profile cases of COVID-19 and to aid in the ongoing fight against the pandemic in...
News | Artificial Intelligence | October 09, 2020
October 9, 2020 — A team of researchers at the University of Minnesota recently developed and validated an artificial...
The FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health's COVID-19 response by the numbers between January 1 and September 18, 2020. Graphic courtesy of FDA
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | September 29, 2020
September 29, 2020 — On September 28, FDA Commissioner of Food and Drugs Stephen M. Hahn, M.D., issued a statement...
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Ambra Health recently launched the Ambra ProViewer, which allows for mobile access for quick reads, and full diagnostic teleradiology capabilities from any device with a major web browser.
Blog | Remote Viewing Systems | January 28, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a change that was already occurring in imaging-heavy practices across the country —...
RADLogics AI-Powered solution in use: chest X-ray of COVID-19 positive case with heatmap key image.
News | Artificial Intelligence | September 23, 2020
September 23, 2020 — RADLogics announced that the company’s novel AI-powered chest X-ray pneumothorax application has...
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News | Cardiac Imaging | September 22, 2020
September 22, 2020 — New research from King's College London has found that COVID-19 may be diagnosed on the same...
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Blog | Breast Imaging | September 18, 2020
Data from breastcancer.org indicates that 276,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer and 48,530 cases of noninvasive (...
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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...
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Feature | Breast Imaging | September 18, 2020 | By Susan Harvey, M.D.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every facet of personal life, business operations and healthcare, including breast...
Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | September 18, 2020 | By Anjum M. Ahmed, M.D., MBBS, MBA, MIS
COVID-19 is now everywhere, and these are the longest months in my career when I have not traveled or met in person...
Figure 1. Doppler flows in subpleural consolidation shows smoothly dilated branching arteries
Feature | Radiology Imaging | September 17, 2020 | By Robert Bard, M.D. PC, DABR, FASLM
COVID-19 is routinely studied using lung ultrasound and quantifying the disease by the “white lung” appearance of...
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News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | September 17, 2020
September 17, 2020 — Delays and cancellation of cancer treatments and other safety measures undertaken to minimize the...
Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | September 15, 2020
September 15, 2020 — The world is facing a global pandemic with unknown implications, but it is now well known COVID-19...
Videos | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | September 15, 2020
Case is a 6-month-old infant boy admitted to hospital due to respiratory distress then worsened by a pericardial...
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | September 15, 2020
September 15, 2020 — Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc., a world leader in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) solutions, and the...
Feature | Artificial Intelligence | September 09, 2020 | Sanjay M Parekh, Ph.D.
The world market for artificial intelligence (AI)-based clinical applications for use in medical imaging is set to...
News | Ultrasound Imaging | September 03, 2020
September 3, 2020 — Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc., specialists in developing cutting-edge point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS)...
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News | Lung Imaging | September 01, 2020
September 1, 2020 — Diagnosing respiratory illness associated with vaping has always been challenging. Adding the...
B, Representative computational model shows lung stroma intraorgan structure of XCAT phantom that was developed using anatomically informed mathematic model. Inset shows enlarged view for better visibility of details and small structures. C, Voxelized rendition (ground truth) of XCAT phantom highlights detailed model of lung parenchyma. Inset shows enlarged view for better visibility of details and small structures. Image courtesy of the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS), American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR)
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | August 26, 2020
August 26, 2020 — An open-access article in ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) established a foundation for...
