Clinical Trials

Clinical trials and studies about imaging technology can be found on this channel.

The first of 396 patients has been enrolled into the PROTECT-trial with the aim of setting new standards for the clinical use of proton radiotherapy in esophageal cancer

The PROTECT-Trial Consortium Enrolls First Patient into Proton Therapy Study

September 2, 2022 — IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A., EURONEXT), a world leader in particle accelerator technology, today ...

September 02, 2022

Study Illuminates the Needs of a Growing Homebound Population Struggling With Inequities and Systemic Barriers

News | Teleradiology

When Telemedicine Isn’t the Solution

August 17, 2022 — In a study published today in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, researchers at the Icahn ...

August 17, 2022

A new study published by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers suggests that the common steroid betamethasone could be used to reduce unwanted side effects of radiation treatments for prostate cancer.

News | Prostate Cancer

Betamethasone Could Improve Outcomes for Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy

August 16, 2022 — A new study published by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers suggests that the ...

August 16, 2022

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Enhertu (fam-trastuzumab-deruxtecan-nxki), an IV infusion for the treatment of patients with unresectable (unable to be removed) or metastatic (spread to other parts of the body) HER2-low breast cancer.

News | Breast Imaging

FDA Approves First Targeted Therapy for HER2-Low Breast Cancer

August 8, 2022 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Enhertu (fam-trastuzumab-deruxtecan-nxki), an IV ...

August 08, 2022

Dr. Milena Cavic, Institute for Oncology and Radiology of Serbia

News | Lung Imaging

IASLC Early Detection and Screening Committee to Report on Global Obstacles to Lung Cancer Screening

August 8, 2022 — Representatives from the Diagnostics Working Group of the IASLC Early Detection and Screening Committee ...

August 08, 2022

News | Lung Imaging

New Recommendations Aim to Ease Patient Access to Lung Cancer Clinical Trials

August 8, 2022 — A clinical trial is only as powerful as its participants. For years, researchers have struggled to fill ...

August 08, 2022

UNC School of Medicine researchers documented significant decrease in neural flexibility across the entire brain of children with ADHD and throughout sub-networks considered crucial to cognitive flexibility

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Researchers Use MRI to Show Brain Changes, Differences in Children with ADHD

July 27, 2022 — Multitasking is not just an office skill. It’s key to functioning as a human, and it involves something ...

July 27, 2022

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology researchers improve the scanning capability of magnetic particle imaging systems used for medical imaging.

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

New Study Finds Pulsed MRI System Could Deliver Drugs to the Brain

July 25, 2022 — For any drug to be successful in treating mental health or neurological problems, the medicine has to ...

July 25, 2022

The study, developed in collaboration with researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine, will test the long-standing assumption made by the majority of peer-reviewed publications that the use of artificial intelligence does not influence radiologists’ performance.

News | Artificial Intelligence

Whiterabbit.ai Announces Call for Radiologists to Participate in Study to Evaluate the Impact of AI on Performance

July 20, 2022 — Whiterabbit.ai, an AI company targeting late-stage diseases, today announced efforts to recruit ...

July 20, 2022

MRI images for detection of microstructural changes in early-stage PD patients. In yellow are areas where PD patients show tissue damage, compared to healthy controls. Image courtesy of Mezer Lab/Hebrew University

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Early-Stage Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease Now Possible with New MRI Method Developed by Hebrew U. Researchers

July 19, 2022 — Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) researchers have developed an early-stage diagnosis of Parkinson’s ...

July 19, 2022

KA Imaging, a company that develops innovative X-ray imaging solutions, announced the initial results from a study examining the diagnostic value of single-exposure dual-energy subtraction radiography in lung lesion detection

News | Lung Imaging

KA Imaging’s Reveal 35C Images Shown to Increase Lung Lesion Visibility

July 13, 2022 — KA Imaging, a company that develops innovative X-ray imaging solutions, announced the initial results ...

July 13, 2022

Lung cancer is the most common cancer in the world, with 2.2 million new cases and around 1.8 million deaths in 2020 alone

News | Lung Imaging

Lung Cancer: When Radiotherapy Fails

July 6, 2022 — Lung cancer is the most common cancer in the world, with 2.2 million new cases and around 1.8 million ...

July 06, 2022

A grant from the National Cancer Institute will build on Penn’s pioneering role in the use of intraoperative imaging technology that makes it easier and safer to remove tumors on or in the lungs

News | Lung Imaging

Penn Medicine Awarded $9 million to Advance Study of Technology That Lights Up Lung Cancer Tumors

June 29, 2022 — Building on Penn Medicine’s years of research and use of imaging technology that illuminates tumor ...

June 29, 2022

Flash therapy delivers radiation at ultra-high dose rates in typically less than one second and is capable of being over 100 times faster compared to conventional radiation therapy

News | Proton Therapy

Varian Receives Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) for Flash Technology Clinical Trial, FAST-02

June 27, 2022 — Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

June 28, 2022

NT and H.U.B. representatives signing the Letter of Intent on May 17, 2022 in Brussels, Belgium. From left to right: Prof. Nick Reynaert (H.U.B), Renaud Witmeur (H.U.B), Matthew Copeland (NT), Marko Valjavec (NT), Prof. Dirk Van Gestel (H.U.B), Elizabeth Reczek (NT)

News | Radiation Oncology

Collaboration Offers Cancer Patients a Revolutionary New Treatment Method at Institut Jules Bordet

June 27, 2022 — Neutron Therapeutics, Inc (NT) and the University Hospital of Brussels (H.U.B) today announced that they ...

June 28, 2022

The workflow of radiomics. Image courtesy of Yixin Wang

News | Radiation Therapy

Novel Radiomic Model Helps Predict the Treatment Response of Radiotherapy in Patients with Brain Metastases

June 24, 2022 — Recently, a collaborated research team led by Prof. LI Hai and Hongzhi Wang from Hefei Institutes of ...

June 24, 2022

A new precision radiotherapy technique described as ‘practice changing’ has been shown to reduce long-term side effects, including swallowing problems, for patients with head and neck cancer following treatment

News | Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)

Practice-changing Radiotherapy Technique can Reduce Swallowing Problems for Cancer Patients

June 7, 2022 — Two-year results from the Dysphagia-Aspiration Related Structures (DARS) trial, which is funded by Cancer ...

June 07, 2022

According to ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), evaluating chest CT findings offers an additional approach for demonstrating the efficacy of different COVID-19 vaccines in reducing the impact of a COVID-19 diagnosis.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

COVID-19 Vaccine Impact on Chest CT of Pneumonia in Symptomatic Patients

June 1, 2022 — According to ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), evaluating chest CT findings offers an ...

June 01, 2022

The new study examines over 1,000 patient attitudes toward AI and how it’s being used to support patient care

News | Artificial Intelligence

New Intelerad Research Shows 64% of U.S. Consumers Highly Trust Artificial Intelligence for Medical Imaging

May 31, 2022 — Patient trust is not a barrier to artificial intelligence (AI) adoption by medical imaging professionals ...

May 31, 2022

Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, isolated from a patient. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Image courtesy of NIAID

Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Scientists Use Machine Learning Models to Help Identify Long COVID Patients

Clinical scientists used machine learning (ML) models to explore de-identified electronic health record (EHR) data in ...

May 18, 2022