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The Mindways Solid phantom with volume of interest in the quality assurance phantom (red circles, left side). A participant's noncontrast-enhanced axial CT (right side) with volume of interest (yellow circles) in the trabecular bone compartment of three vertebrae for bone mineral density measurements. Image courtesy of Radiological Society of North America
News | Cardiac Imaging
Cardiac CT Can Double as Osteoporosis Test

July 15, 2020 — Cardiac CT exams performed to assess heart health also provide an effective way to screen for ...

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PET/CT imaging showing uptake and retention of 86Y-NM600 (imaging agent) in immunocompetent mice bearing prostate tumors. PET imaging data was employed to estimate tumor dosimetry and prescribe an immunomodulatory 90Y-NM600 (therapy agent) injected activity. Image courtesy of R Hernandez et al., University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI.
News | PET-CT
Targeted Radionuclide Therapy Enhances Prostate Cancer Response to Immunotherapies

July 15, 2020 — Targeted radionuclide therapy has been found to create a favorable tumor microenvironment in prostate ...

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Representative maximum-intensity projection PET images of a healthy human volunteer injected with 64Cu-NOTA-EB-RGD at 1, 8, and 24 hours after injection. Axial MRI and PET slices of glioblastoma patient injected with 64Cu-NOTA-EB-RGD at different time points after injection. Image courtesy of Jingjing Zhang et al., Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China/ Xiaoyuan Chen et al., Laboratory of Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine, NIBIB/NIH, Bethesda, USA
News | PET Imaging
New PET Radiotracer Proven Safe in Imaging Malignant Brain Tumors

July 15, 2020 — A first-in-human study presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2020 Annual ...

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Adult male with decades of right neck pain, discomfort and tightening following birth injury. The patient had failed multiple standard therapeutic maneuvers before presenting for 18F-FDG PET/MR imaging. Images shows abnormally elevated FDG uptake (white arrows; SUVmax = 1.2) observed in a linear pattern in the space in the posterolateral right neck, between the oblique capitis inferior and the semispinalis capitis muscles, where the greater occipital nerve resides. By comparison, the same region on the cont
News | SNMMI
New PET/MRI Approach Pinpoints Chronic Pain Location, Alters Management

July 14, 2020 — A new molecular imaging approach utilizing 18F-FDG positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic ...

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Left: Total-body PET/CT in psoriatic arthritis: multiple joints affected, shoulders, elbows, wrists, knees, ankles and small joints of the hands/feet. Arrow: left wrist; arrowhead: right wrist. Middle: Total-body PET/CT in rheumatoid arthritis: multiple joints affected, right shoulder, small joints of the left hand. Arrowhead at the 4th proximal interphalangeal joint shows classic ring-like uptake pattern. Arrow on the foot images demonstrates the hammer toe deformity besides big toe arthritis. Right: Total
News | SNMMI
Total-body PET/CT Captures Full Picture of Systemic Inflammatory Arthritis

July 14, 2020 — For the first time, physicians can examine the systemic burden of inflammatory arthritis simultaneously ...

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News | Artificial Intelligence
Lunit Expands Collaboration with GE Healthcare to Advance AI Adoption

July 14, 2020 — Lunit, a leading medical AI startup, announced the expansion of its collaboration with GE Healthcare ...

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News | Information Technology
Epic's Risk-Scoring Algorithms Help Health Systems Get Back on Course

July 14, 2020 — The COVID-19 pandemic caused healthcare organizations to cancel most routine and elective services. The ...

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Infervision's newly FDA approved CT lung AI application sets a new standard
News | Artificial Intelligence
Infervision Receives FDA Clearance for the InferRead Lung CT.AI

July 10, 2020 — Infervision announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(K) clearance of the InferRead Lung CT ...

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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)
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 computed ...

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Carl Fuhrman, M.D., 67, died June 27 of a heart attack while he was working at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, according to an obituary published July 9 in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
News | Radiology Business
Industry Mourns the Loss of Renowned Radiologist Carl Fuhrman, M.D.

July 9, 2020 —Carl Fuhrman, M.D., 67, died June 27 of a heart attack while he was working at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital ...

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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)
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 ...

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

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Simulation finds starting at age 30 with MRI and mammography to be the preferred strategy; starting at 25 prevented marginally more deaths, but with more testing and emotional stress
News | Breast Imaging
When and How to Monitor for Breast Cancer After Childhood Chest Radiation

July 9, 2020 — Chest radiation is used to treat children with Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma as well as lung ...

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Feature | Mobile C-Arms | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane
Mobile C-arms Market Update

Moblie C-arms have seen several advances over the past decade, moving toward digital flat panel detectors, improved ...

Time July 08, 2020
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At the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) 2019 meeting, new artificial intelligence (AI) software to assist with radiotherapy treatment planning systems was highlighted. The goal of the AI-based systems is to save staff time, while still allowing clinicians to do the final patient review. 
Feature | Treatment Planning | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane
Integrating Artificial Intelligence in Treatment Planning

At the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) 2019 meeting, new artificial intelligence (AI) software to ...

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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)
The Pandemic’s Toll on Radiology

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

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Blog | Information Technology
Parting Thoughts: Engaging Your Data

The world of analytics has grown expansively in healthcare over the last decade. Measuring our business is no longer ...

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 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
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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 ...

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Hologic, Inc. announced he U.S. launch of the SuperSonic MACH 40 ultrasound system, expanding the company’s suite of ultrasound technologies with its first premium, cart-based system.
News | Breast Imaging
Hologic Launches Cart-based Ultrasound System

July 8, 2020 — Hologic, Inc. announced he U.S. launch of the SuperSonic MACH 40 ultrasound system, expanding the company ...

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Changes outlined in new draft U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) lung cancer screening recommendations will greatly increase the number of Americans eligible for screening and help medical providers save thousands more lives each year.
News | Lung Imaging
Updated USPSTF Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines

July 8, 2020 — Changes outlined in new draft U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) lung cancer screening ...

Time July 08, 2020
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