April 4, 2020 — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revised its recommendations, stating that everyone should now wear protective face cloth covering when out in public, especially in ares of significant community-based transmission. The cloth face coverings recommended are not surgical masks or N-95 respirators. Those are critical supplies that must continue to be reserved for healthcare workers and other medical first responders, as recommended by current CDC guidance.

Breast density is divided into four categories, from lowest to highest amounts of fibroglandular tissue composition. Category A: Almost entirely fatty (least amount of fibroglandular tissue). Category B: Scattered fibroglandular tissue. Category C: Heterogeneously dense. Category D: Extremely dense (most amount of fibroglandular tissue).
BI-RADS Category A: Almost entirely fatty (least amount of fibroglandular tissue). Understanding Dense Breasts
BI-RADS Category B: Scattered fibroglandular tissue. Dense Breasts. Breast density scale
BI-RADS Category C: Heterogeneously dense. Dense Breasts can hide breast cancers.
BI-RADS Category D: Extremely dense (most amount of fibroglandular tissue). Dense Breasts hide breast cancers.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, and, for women in their forties, the leading cause of premature death.
Varian received FDA clearance for its Ethos therapy in February 2020. It is an adaptive intelligence solution that uses onboard AI in the treatment system to take the cone beam CT imaging on the system, compare it to the treatment plan and deliver an entire adaptive treatment plan in a typical 15-minute treatment time slot, from patient setup through treatment delivery.
An artificial intelligence (AI) created treatment plan for Pancreatic cancer created by the RaySearch software and displayed at ASTRO 2019. 

The traditional treatment planning process takes days to create an optimized radiation therapy delivery plan, but new artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are helping speed this process. In some cases autonomous AI-generated plans can be generated in a couple minutes.

Now that artificial intelligence (AI) has clawed its way into the mainstream, some vendors want us to forget it is there. What really matters, they say, is the end result. Knowing that AI is the reason for the conclusions is a needless distraction, they say.

April 3, 2020 — A new guidance document on best practices to maintain safety and minimize contamination in nuclear imaging labs from novel coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) was created and released this week in partnership between the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) and the Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).

April 3, 2020 — The radiology world has lost a dedicated leader due to coronavirus (COVID-19). On March 29, Jeannie Danker, director of radiology at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, died from suspected complications from the virus. She had worked at the center for more than 30 years.

Rising concerns over radiation overexposure teamed with a growing focus on improving the quality of patient care are two key drivers of today’s radiation dose management market. 

Rising concerns over radiation overexposure teamed with a growing focus on improving the quality of patient care are two key drivers of today’s radiation dose management market. The adoption of both nuclear medicine and interventional radiology is anticipated to create lucrative growth prospects for this market as well.
An estimated 44 million people worldwide are currently living with Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. About 5.8 million people in the United States live with the disease, where it is the sixth leading cause of death overall. While there is not yet a cure for Alzheimer’s, researchers are working to find treatment options to delay its onset and prevent it from developing.

An estimated 44 million people worldwide are currently living with Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. About 5.8 million people in the United States live with the disease, where it is the sixth leading cause of death overall. While there is not yet a cure for Alzheimer’s, researchers are working to find treatment options to delay its onset and prevent it from developing.
An example of Philips’ TrueVue technology, which offers photo-realistic rendering and the ability to change the location of the lighting source on 3-D ultrasound images. In this example of two Amplazer transcatheter septal occluder devices in the heart, the operator demonstrating the product was able to push the lighting source behind the devices into the other chamber of the heart. This illuminated a hole that was still present that the occluders did not seal.
The AI smart algorithm onboard the Infervision stroke product calculates the volume of bleed on the basis of multiple brain CT slices. The size of the bleed volume indicates the urgency and type of treatment required.
Canon’s Alphenix 4-D CT allows clinicians to efficiently plan, treat and verify in a single clinical setting. The flexible hybrid system enables streamlined workflow and outstanding range of patient access and coverage. 
Katie Caron

A new year — and decade — offers the opportunity to reflect on the advancements and challenges of years gone by and ponder the question: what’s next? For radiologists, constant innovations in medical technology mean the landscape may not look the same year over year, or certainly from decade to decade.

In January, we started hearing about a new virus, novel coronavirus (COVID-19), and read reports about how fast it seemed to have spread across China. As an industry, we made note. But we weren’t sure if, or how, it might affect the U.S. healthcare system. Fast forward one month. We slowly started to see its effect on radiology in February, as the crisis grew, spreading to the states, and started to make headlines. 

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