Lunit inks two European supply contracts
Lunit has inked two European contracts to provide AI-driven software for chest x-ray and breast imaging. The company has secured a supply contract with TeleDiag in France and the Portuguese League Against Cancer, it said. TeleDiag is France's largest teleradiology group; it will use Lunit's Insight CXR, Lunit said. The Portuguese League Against Cancer will use Lunit's Insight MMG to analyze 100,000 mammograms each year over the next three, according to the firm. The new contracts follow two Lunit signed last week with distributors in East and Southeast Asia. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news

Medic Vision secures distribution contract with Mumbai, India firm
Medic Vision Imaging Solutions has inked a distribution contract for its AI-driven MRI image enhancement software with a Mumbai, India-based company. Equipment supplier Akarui Solutions will distribute Medic Vision's iQMR software, which speeds MRI scans by 40%, according to the firm. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news

Siemens Healthineers develops cinematic reality app
Siemens Healthineers has developed a cinematic reality app that enables "realistic renderings of human anatomy," it said. The company's Cinematic Reality app is designed for Apple Vision Pro and allows users to view interactive holograms of the human body taken from medical scans, according to the firm. It could help with surgical planning and medical and patient education, Siemens noted. Siemens highlighted the app at the recent Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Orlando. It is a prototype and not yet available for commercial use. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Imaging Informatics Industry News Artificial Intelligence Source Type: news

Komen talks SCREENS for Cancer Act with AuntMinnie.com
The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee recently passed the Screening for Communities to Receive Early and Equitable Needed Services (SCREENS) for Cancer Act. Approved by the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions in December 2023, the legislation now awaits approval by the full U.S. Senate and House, along with President Joe Biden's signature, to become law. Valerie Nelson, Manager of Federal Policy & Advocacy at Susan G. Komen, spoke with AuntMinnie.com about the act and its goals. Komen recently issued a statement applauding the passing of the act by the subcommittee. (Source:...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Subspecialties Breast Imaging Source Type: news

Image perception: Are radiologists akin to MLB batters?
A radiologist’s perception when viewing a complex MR image may be akin to a Major League Baseball (MLB) batter reading the stitches on a fastball, according to researchers exploring exactly how diagnostic interpretations are made. The baseball metaphor works because eye-tracking studies have shown that radiologists are able to discriminate between normal and abnormal stacks of 26 T2-weighted images from prostate MRI in as little as 48 milliseconds per section, said neuroscientist Robert Alexander, MD, of SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, in an interview with AuntMinnie.com. Similarly, expert batter...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Advanced Visualization Source Type: news

MRI shows effects of high blood pressure on the brain
High blood pressure has a negative effect on the brain's white matter -- and not just in older adults but in younger ones as well, researchers have reported. A study conducted by a team led by Junyeon Won, PhD, of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas found that diffusion-weighted MRI brain white matter metrics showed a connection between hypertension and white matter abnormalities. Their results were published March 15 in Hypertension. "[We found that] high blood pressure and high hypertension stage were associated with [diffusion-weighted MRI white matter brain characteristics]," the group wrote. High blood pre...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Clinical News Subspecialties MRI Neuroradiology Source Type: news

GE Healthcare, Hartford HealthCare extend Care Alliance agreement
GE HealthCare (GEHC) and Connecticut-based Hartford HealthCare have extended their "Care Alliance" collaboration through 2030. Under the collaboration, Hartford HealthCare will upgrade its imaging technology using a phased approach for the acquisition, deployment, and redeployment of CT, PET/CT, MRI, x-ray, nuclear medicine, mammography, ultrasound, and OEC 3D surgical imaging C-arm systems, according to GEHC. Many of the new systems in the collaborative effort will include tested AI and machine-learning software, and patient monitoring, anesthesia, maternal infant care, and diagnostic cardiology technologies are also in...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Installations Source Type: news

Calcifications on mammo could identify women at risk of CVD
Detecting breast arterial calcifications on routine mammograms could identify women at a higher risk of future cardiovascular disease (CVD), a study published March 13 in Clinical Imaging found. Researchers led by Shadi Azam, PhD, from Weill Cornell Medicine in New York found links between such calcifications and older age, diabetes, parity, younger age at first birth, and hypertension in women who underwent both screening mammography and cardiac CT angiography (CCTA). “Additionally, we found that when neither breast arterial calcifications nor coronary arterial calcifications were present, the estimated 10-year risk o...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Womens Imaging Source Type: news

FAPI-PET/CT outperforms FDG-PET/CT in women with invasive breast cancer
This study underscores Ga-68 FAPI-PET/CT’s superiority over F-18 FDG-PET/CT for ILC,” the group concluded. A link to the full study can be found here. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Breast Source Type: news

Volpara to highlight Miss. health system project at NCBC
Volpara Health Technologies will feature its latest software for breast density, evaluating cancer risk, and mammography quality with Lunit's Insight AI software for early cancer detection at the 2024 National Consortium of Breast Centers (NCBC) conference in Las Vegas. During a special session on Tuesday, March 19, Tami Hudson, breast health navigator at Singing River Health System in Mississippi will share the clinical impact of making cancer risk assessment standard for every patient receiving a mammogram at four breast centers. Singing River has used Volpara's Risk Pathways cancer risk assessment software to identify ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Imaging Informatics Breast Imaging Subspecialties Industry News Source Type: news

Groups aim to standardize nuclear medicine imaging of CV infections
Eleven medical associations have released guidance on the use of PET/CT and SPECT/CT for patients with cardiovascular (CV) infections. The recommendations could improve patient care, as current clinical tools are often insufficient in complicated cases, noted lead author of the guidance Jamieson Bourque, MD, of the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville. The document was published jointly March 11 in the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, Clinical Infectious Diseases, the Heart Rhythm Journal, and JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging. “The stakes are high with cardiovascular infection because the incidence is incr...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Molecular Imaging Source Type: news

ARRS names Clinician Educator Development program recipients
The American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) has announced the latest recipients of its Clinician Educator Development program for radiologists. The Clinician Educator Development program class of 2024 includes 30 clinical educators of medical imaging who have collectively received more than $40,000 in grant funding from ARRS’ own Roentgen Fund. This year’s program intensive will be held on Saturday, May 4 during the annual ARRS meeting in Boston, MA. Each year, program recipients are selected to receive a $1,800 travel grant to attend a specialized workshop during the ARRS annual meeting. The workshop focuses on new and...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news

Targeted radiopharmaceuticals offer new hope for longer'healthspans '
Mark Crockett, MD, chief medical officer at TeleDaaS.Americans today can expect to live long lives. However, increased longevity has brought on a troubling rise in chronic disease, diminishing the quality of life later in life. A 2018 study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that more than a quarter of U.S. adults now battle multiple chronic conditions, up from 22% in 2001. We may be living longer, but more Americans struggle through these extra years in poor health — presenting a pressing need to extend not just lifespans but “healthspans.” An emerging field of precision radiopharm...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Tags: Molecular Imaging Source Type: news

Micro-X plans human trials for ambulance stroke CT
Micro-X's new stroke ambulance head CT unit prototype is nearing field trials in Australia. When completed, the Micro-X Head CT will weigh less than 70 kg (154 lb) and will contain 21 mini x-ray tubes, as opposed to a conventional CT that is more than 1,200 kg (2,646 lb) with one x-ray tube in a rotating gantry, according to the company. Its nanoelectronic x-ray technology uses carbon nanotubes to miniaturize x-ray tubes. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news

Clarity reports on third cohort in copper theranostic trial
Clarity Pharmaceuticals has completed its third cohort in the theranostic SECuRE trial evaluating copper-64 (Cu-64) and copper-67 (Cu-67) sarcophagine chelator technology in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. In this phase I/IIa trial of Cu-64 for the diagnostic and Cu-67 for the therapeutic, the company noted no dose-limiting toxicities in cohort 3, and an overall safety review of all cohorts 1, 2, and 3 also showed favorable safety profiles. Cohort 3 participants had the highest number of pretreatments prior to entering the study across all cohorts, with most patients receiving five or more l...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Nuclear Radiology Radiation Oncology Source Type: news