Different Methods To Alleviate Joint Pain
Our body is flexible due the joints. These joints connect two bones, provide support and help in the body parts movement. Joint pain is a feeling of discomfort, aches and soreness in any of our body ’s joint. There have been lots of cases of people having aches in their joints. These joint pains are due to injuries affecting the ligaments, bursae, or tendons surrounding the joint. Pain in the joints is also due to infection and inflammation and in an extremely rare case because of cancer. It becomes extremely painful when you try to move your body parts suffering this pain.There are different conditions which are respons...
Source: radRounds - September 11, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Benny Smith Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Trends That Will Redefine the Industry Future
The Healthcare industry has become one of the largest sectors in the world both in terms of employment and revenue. This industry has its own wings comprises of hospitals, doctors, nursing homes, laboratories, pharmacies, medical device manufacturers and patients. This market is one of the fastest growing industries in the world and it is expected to grow 5.4 percent between 2019-2022, from USD $7.724 trillion to USD $10.059 trillion. Healthcare industry has witnessed the high-speed innovative changes.Now this is the time for the Healthcare Industry to gear up with the latest technological changes and fasten the heartbeat ...
Source: radRounds - September 11, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Jones Brianna Source Type: blogs
Small-scale and Portable MRI Defeats Common Scanner Challenges
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are developing a portable, helmet-shaped magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device that could eliminate the challenges typically associated with large machines imaging bedridden patients. There are structural and financial burdens that come with using a large, stationary scanner. MIT ’s low-field small-scale MRI could make it easier for physicians to image certain populations and still produce accurate and effective outcomes. The group of researchers led by Harvard University radiology professor Lawrence Wald, PhD, started investigating ways to use MRI on a...
Source: radRounds - August 16, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
MRI Can Help Predict MS Severity
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) can be prevented by undergoing routine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tests, according to researchers from the Institute of Neurology in London. MS progression is difficult to predict as the disease manifests itself differently in every patient. In their study recently published in Brain, the researchers ventured out to define the predictors of long-term disability outcomes by using clinically isolated syndrome (CIS), a first episode of neurological symptoms that can evolve into MS, as a baseline. They used MRI exams after a CIS diagnosis to anticipate the future of a patient ’s health and de...
Source: radRounds - August 16, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
New Smart Insulation Cuts down Copper Use in MRI By Half
Hospitals and imaging centers face spatial challenges with large and heavy magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines; however, researchers from the Superconductivity Research Center at the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) are working to reduce the cumbersome size and weight of MRI equipment with smart insulation. MRI is so heavy because the machine ’s superconducting electromagnets need to be wrapped in massive quantities of copper in order to prevent the superconducting wire from heating up and burning. The amount of copper is what makes the equipment so bulky and heavy, and it’s also an obstacle ...
Source: radRounds - August 16, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
FDA Approves Bayer GBCA for Coronary Artery Disease
This week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the green light approval to Bayer AG ’s gadobutrol (Gadavist), a gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA) used in cardiac MRI procedures for patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease. It’s the first and only approved agent for this type of procedure. “We now have an approved contrast agent for use in cardiac MRI to assess perfusion and late gadolinium enhancement in less than 1 hour, ” saidScott Flamm, MD who co-authored a statement on using the GBCA in myocardial perfusion studies. Gadavist is also used to evaluate the blood supply to the heart...
Source: radRounds - July 19, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
New MRI Technology Images One Atom at a Time
Researchers at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA, are using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology to image individual atoms, revealing never-before-seen extraordinary detail, according to a study recently published inNature. MRI scans photograph billions upon billions of protons in order to accurately capture what ’s going on in the body. IBM nanoscience researcher Christopher Lutz, PhD, wanted to replicate that technology to see if they could image singular atoms. Dr. Lutz and his team decided to use a cryogenic scanning tunneling microscope, a tool made with a metallic tip and applied voltage th...
Source: radRounds - July 19, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
100-Hour MRI Delivers Unprecedented Detail
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital used a 7 Tesla MRI Scanner to capture the most precise and detailed 3-D photo of the brain ever taken, according to recently published reports. The brain used belonged to a 58-year old woman who died of pneumonia and had no known neurological condition. Her brain was stored for nearly three years before researchers decided to scan it for 100 hours, producing unprecedented images that could zero-in on material that was .1 millimeters wide. The brain was held in a custom-made spheroid case made of urethane, which permitted interfering air bubbles to escape. The case was then ...
Source: radRounds - July 19, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Magnetic Metamaterial Can Increase MRI Tesla Strength
Researchers from Boston University are using magnetic metamaterial to enhance lower strength magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines, according to a study published inCommunication Physics.With higher field scanners, MRI has a stronger signal-to-noise ratio, and images can be captured with better resolution and at faster speeds. Most facilities use machines with 1.5 or 3 Tesla, but the need for stronger imagers is growing. That ’s why professors Zin Zhang, PhD, and Stephan Anderson, PhD, decided to develop their magnetic metamaterial to enhance the imaging power of low field MRI.Their magnetic metamaterial is made up...
Source: radRounds - June 22, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Using MRI for Prostate Cancer Detection Increases Diagnosis Rate
Using magnetic resonance imaging in tandem with the traditional ultrasound method can significantly improve prostate cancer detection, according to a study recently published inJAMA Surgery.Prostate cancer has been traditionally diagnosed with only ultrasound. Physicians use the technique for tissue biopsy. However, this method alone can ’t detect certain tumors. Historically, MRI-based biopsy practices are practical because they can detect precise lesions on the prostate. Yet, not all tumors appear on MRI, making it difficult to identify all kinds of cancer. Researchers from the University of California Los Angeles fo...
Source: radRounds - June 22, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
MRI Could Be Better than Mammography at Detecting Breast Cancer
Magnetic Resonance Imaging detects breast cancer at earlier stages than mammography, according to a studyrecently published inOncology.Around 15 percent of women with breast cancer were diagnosed despite having no causative hereditary gene mutation but had a family history of breast cancer. To better understand diagnosis rates, researchers from Erasmus University in the Netherlands implemented a randomized controlled trial (FaMRIsc) throughout 12 hospitals in the Netherlands to compare the efficacy of MRI screening against mammography in women with a family history of breast cancer.The study took place between January 1,...
Source: radRounds - June 22, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
What Does the Helium Shortage Mean for MRI?
Not only is Party City shutting down 45 stores in part because of the worldwide helium deficit, but medical imaging centers are also vulnerable to the short supply.The chemical element is a byproduct of natural gas production and the second-most common element in the universe. At one point the United States was the world ’s top helium producer, but got wrapped up in financial troubles and resorted to selling off its reserves in the late 1990s. Yet as of recently, Qatar, the world’s main producer of helium and claims 75 percentof global supply, was forced to stop exporting the gas after a handful of Middle Eastern coun...
Source: radRounds - May 17, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Radiology Residents Fail to Recognize Signs of Child Abuse
Radiology programs are struggling to teach residents how to accurately identify signs of child abuse in medical images, according to a studypresented at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) 2019 Annual Meeting earlier this month.For the study, residents analyzed one case out of 65 nonaccidental trauma cases that were processed between 2014 and 2018 on the Emergent/Critical Care Imaging SIMulation online test platform. Researchers found that there was a high instance of residents neglecting to identify child abuse in the scans. The average correctly diagnosed rates varied between 7 and 79 percent a year, and the avera...
Source: radRounds - May 17, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Where Are All the Late Career Radiologists?
The population of radiologists in the United States falls by more than 50 percent after around 30 years post-residency, according to a studyrecently published inAcademic Radiology.Researchers from the New York University Langone Medical Center ’s Department of Radiology led byAndrew B. Rosenkrantz, MD, MPA, found that radiologists in a variety of specialties who were still working three or four decades past their residency were just as productive as their earlier career counterparts. A 2017 national workforce survey echoes this drastic contrast and found that 28 percent of practicing radiologists were older than 56 whe...
Source: radRounds - May 17, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
New Checklist Effectively Determines if a Child Needs Anesthesia Before MRI
Researchers at the KK Women ’s and Children’s Hospital in Singapore have introduced a checklist to determine if a child needs general anesthesia (GA) before undergoing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The question set can be administered by non-medical staff and only takes a few minutes.In their studyrecently published inClinical Radiology,medical students and research assistants used the checklist questions with over 700 patients whose ages ranged from 3 to 20, and were scheduled for an MRI between September 2016 and June 2017. The average age of the patients was 11.7 years old.The checklist features five questions...
Source: radRounds - April 19, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
