Siemens reports revenue, profit gains in Q2
Siemens Healthineers recorded 5.435 billion euros ($5.85 billion U.S.) in revenues for its fiscal second quarter, up 1.7% and up 3% on a comparable basis from the 5.346 billion euros ($5.75 billion) received in the second quarter of 2024. For the period (end-March 31), the company had 431 million euros ($463.9 million) in quarterly net income, compared with 108 million euros ($116.2 million) posted in the 2023 fiscal second quarter.
Siemens' Imaging segment had a total adjusted revenue of 2.956 billion euros ($3.181 billion), up 1.4% and up 2.6% on a comparable basis from the 2.915 billion euros ($3.137 billion) generated...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - May 7, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
ISMRM: Long-COVID researchers learn from voxel-wise analysis in brain MRI
Certain advanced MRI metrics are more useful than others for assessing white matter alterations that could be linked to long-COVID brain fog, according to research results presented May 6 at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) meeting.
A team led by Nicolò Rolandi, PhD, of University College London in the U.K. explored voxel-wise analysis of core white-matter voxels using advanced MRI metrics and neuropsychological scores.
The study dataset included 25 healthy control participants and 47 with long COVID who were scanned and clinically assessed between June 2020 and August 2023. MRI data ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - May 7, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Liz Carey Tags: Neuroradiology ISMRM 2024 Source Type: news
SimonMed installs Signa Premier 3T MRI scanners in three states
Outpatient medical imaging provider SimonMed Imaging has installed GE HealthCare’s Signa Premier 3-tesla wide-bore MRI scanners at locations in three states.
The Premier systems have been received at outpatient imaging centers in Goodyear and Gilbert, AZ, Houston, TX, and Tampa, FL. In announcing the installations, SimonMed highlighted the scanner's capability of performing complete MRI exams in 5-10 minutes due to its use of GE HealthCare's AIR Recon deep-learning-based image reconstruction technology. The firm also highlighted other benefits such as feet-first imaging, GE HealthCare's AIR Coils, SuperG 80/200 gradient...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - May 7, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Installations Source Type: news
ISMRM: MRI provides new insights in mild traumatic brain injury
SINGAPORE -- New MRI techniques reveal subtle tissue alterations involved in mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) and provide new insights into a condition affecting millions of people worldwide, according to a leading expert. David Wright, PhD, a neuroscientist at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, delivered a presentation in a plenary session on the topic at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine meeting May 6 in Singapore.“Mild TBI is arguably the most heterogeneous of all neurological disorders. There is tremendous variability in the initial insult, from falls and sporting injuries throu...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - May 7, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: ISMRM 2024 Source Type: news
Rad AI raises $50M in funding round
AI software developer Rad AI has raised $50 million in Series B financing.
The funds will be used to further develop and commercialize its product suite, according to the company.
The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from the World Innovation Lab and existing investors Artis Ventures, OCV Partners, Kickstart Fund, and Gradient Ventures (Google's AI-focused fund), among others, bringing total capital raised to over $80 million. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - May 7, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Nucleus, Artbio sign manufacturing, supply deal
Artbio, a radiopharmaceutical company developing targeted alpha radioligand therapies, and Nucleus RadioPharma are entering a strategic manufacturing and supply agreement.
Under the deal, Nucleus will use Artbio’s AlphaDirect 212Pb isolation technology to manufacture Artbio’s lead-212 (Pb-212) radiolabeled therapies, which will be used for phase I and II clinical trials of Artbio's AB001 lead prostate cancer treatment candidate. This agreement will enable the supply and manufacturing of alpha radioligand therapies from Nucleus’ facility in Rochester, MN, for patients living in the Northern and Midwest U.S., the com...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - May 7, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
ISMRM: Is low-field MRI coming of age for lung imaging?
Low-field MRI can now detect many pathologies in the lungs that previous generations of MRI scanners failed to do, but there is still significant room for improvement once radiologists become more proficient at interpreting pulmonary 0.55-tesla (0.55T) MRI scans, researchers from California have reported at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2024 meeting.
"MR technology has matured to a tipping point in which the field of lung MR that used to be a largely research-only endeavor is now becoming more relevant in our daily clinical practice. However, despite the improvement, technology is st...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - May 7, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Philip Ward Tags: Chest Radiology ISMRM 2024 Source Type: news
ISMRM: MRI shows promise for helping to diagnose PTSD
SINGAPORE - MRI shows promise for helping to diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a presentation delivered May 7 at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) meeting.Presenter Osamu Abe, MD, PhD, of the University of Tokyo in Japan offered attendees a primer on the MRI findings that "most robustly" identify the condition, listing hyperactivation of the amygdala and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, hypoactivation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, and atrophy of the hippocampus."Neuroimaging is now offering insights into the neurobiological basis for normal [brain] dev...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - May 7, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: ISMRM 2024 Source Type: news
Siemens Healthineers, University Hospitals enter strategic alliance
University Hospitals and Siemens Healthineers have entered a 10-year strategic alliance that builds on their 40-year history of clinical and research collaboration.
This next phase will support the hospital system's focus on improving oncology, cardiovascular, and neurovascular care for patients in Ohio. The two organizations will look to also advance Alzheimer’s disease treatment and use theranostics to treat patients with advanced forms of certain cancers, as well as develop new MR technologies.
The strategic alliance accompanies the research collaboration between Siemens Healthineers and the department of radiology...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - May 7, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
ISMRM: Improving access worldwide to MRI: ‘No surrender,’ expert says
SINGAPORE -- About 70% of the world’s population has zero access to MRI and it will take a “no surrender” approach to improve this disparity, according to Andrew Webb, PhD, a professor of radiology at Leiden University in the Netherlands.Webb is a leading figure in efforts to improve access to MRI in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and delivered the notable Lauterbur Lecture May 5 on the topic at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine meeting.In an interview with AuntMinnie.com, Webb described what he meant by “no surrender” (the title of his talk) – essentially, not backing down ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - May 6, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: ISMRM 2024 Source Type: news
ISMRM: Swiss team casts light on congenital heart disease
Researchers from Zurich have developed a cumulative clinical risk (CCR) score that may provide an early predictive marker for long-term brain alterations and cognitive impairments in patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). This score may prove valuable in clinical practice to counsel parents about their child's long-term outcome and to aid early identification of those patients at highest risk for long-term brain alterations and provide therapeutic support as early as possible.
"Our findings underscore the clinical relevance of examining cumulative effects of clinical risk and lay a foundation for further, more adva...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - May 6, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Philip Ward Tags: ISMRM 2024 Source Type: news
ISMRM: MRI technique has value in identifying triple-negative breast cancer
SINGAPORE -- A quantitative MRI technique called 3D amide proton transfer imaging (3D-APT) can help in distinguishing between triple-negative and non-triple-negative breast cancer, according to research presented May 6 at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2024 meeting.
Saiqun Lyu from the Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu University in China said that 3D-APT demonstrated higher transfer values in triple-negative breast cancer patients. Additionally, 3D-APT’s value was further augmented by the addition of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI).
“These findings hold significant value as a cruc...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - May 6, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: ISMRM 2024 Source Type: news
ARRS: Dartmouth poster wins for CVD risk prediction potential using mammograms
A scientific poster on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk prediction using fat-enlarged axillary nodes visualized on screening mammograms won the Summa Cum Laude Award at the 124th American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting.
Produced by Jessica Hitchcock, MD, and researchers from Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire, the poster demonstrated how fat-enlarged nodes may be associated with high CVD risk, type 2 diabetes, and hypertension. In the future, this work could improve risk stratification without additional cost or additional testing.
Jessica Rubino, MD.
“Fat-enlarged axillary lymph nodes vi...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - May 6, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Liz Carey Tags: Imaging Informatics Breast Breast Imaging Source Type: news
ARRS: Shoulder MRI shows high AIGM prevalence in fatty infiltration
Shoulder MRI shows a high prevalence of accessory infraglenoid muscle (AIGM) in patients with teres minor fatty infiltration (TMFI), according to award-winning research presented May 6 at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting.
In her online poster presentation, Jennifer Padwal, MD, from Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, CA, demonstrated how TMFI in patients was mostly grade 1 or 2 as found by MRI.
“The presence of AIGM on shoulder MRI could negate the need for additional imaging to evaluate the cause of TMFI,” Padwal said.
TMFI has important prognostic implications for shoulder surge...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - May 6, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: MRI Musculoskeletal Radiology Source Type: news
ISMRM: MRI shows effects of HIV treatment on the brain
SINGAPORE - MR spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) shows the effects of antiretroviral therapy (ART) on the brains of HIV-positive individuals, according to research presented at the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) meeting.A team led by Teddy Salan, PhD, of the University of Miami in Florida found that a "whole-brain MRSI approach … showed that metabolite changes in untreated people with HIV may not directly normalize after starting ART" -- which suggests a "need for continued monitoring of their brain health of people with HIV even after starting ART," the group wrote.Chronic HIV infection has b...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - May 6, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: ISMRM 2024 Source Type: news
