MedCognetics nabs patent for breast AI tech
Medical imaging AI developer MedCognetics has been awarded a patent for its AI technology in mammography by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
The patent covers architectural strategies and methodologies for achieving unbiased AI in breast imaging. The company highlighted that this is supported by MedCognetics’ peer-reviewed publications in industry conferences such as RSNA 2023 and the European Society of Radiology (ESR) 2024, as well as a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The USPTO patent number for this MedCognetics entry is 11,948,297. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 4, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
RLS enters strategic agreement with Eckert & Ziegler
RLS Radiopharmacies has entered a strategic agreement with Eckert & Ziegler, which will see all 31 of RLS’s radiopharmacies equipped with Eckert & Ziegler’s GalliaPharm generators.
The RLS radiopharmacy network will use these generators to produce gallium-68-based (Ga-68) radiopharmaceuticals for PET imaging and treatment planning for patients with neuroendocrine tumors and prostate cancer.
To date, RLS has installed Eckert & Ziegler’s GalliaPharm generators within most of its locations and anticipates the remaining radiopharmacies will be operational by the end of June 2024.
RLS added that it is also building ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 4, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Siemens Healthineers gets FDA nod for Mammomat B.brilliant system
The Mammomat B.brilliant mammography platform by Siemens Healthineers has received 510(k) clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Image courtesy of Siemens Healthineers,Siemens Healthineers' Mammomat B.brilliant mammography system has received 510(k) clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Mammomat B.brilliant is the first completely redesigned mammography platform in over a decade, the company said. The clearance includes elements that involve full-field digital mammography, 2D breast imaging, breast biopsy, and titanium contrast-enhanced mammography.
Additionally, Siemens recently f...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 4, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Fujifilm, Brainlab partner on distribution of Arietta
Fujifilm Healthcare Americas and Brainlab have inked a partnership that sets Brainlab as the exclusive U.S. distributor of Arietta Precision Ultrasound for neurosurgery applications to be used with Brainlab's surgical navigation systems.
Brainlab will distribute Arietta Precision as a standalone product alongside and with its Ultrasound Navigation software. The company said that this offering is expected to be cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and available in the U.S. in mid-2024. The combination of these technologies will offer neurosurgeons real-time insights through live intraoperative ultrasoun...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 4, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
The rise of theranostics: Part 2 -- Moving into communities
A decade ago, only a few radiopharmaceutical agents were used to help treat cancer patients. That has changed and the field of theranostics is expanding rapidly in various ways, as described in part 1 of AuntMinnie.com's series on the rise of theranostics.
However, few freestanding theranostics centers exist today. Even if some private urology, radiation oncology practices, or radiologist groups are building the ability to perform theranostics, experts are cautious about patient management, radiation safety, and the risk of unnecessary imaging. They're also mindful of the multiple dedicated teams required to build a thera...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 4, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Liz Carey Tags: Practice Management Radiation Oncology/Therapy Nuclear Medicine Medicolegal Genitourinary Radiology Source Type: news
AIUM president-elect previews UltraCon 2024
Attendees at this year’s UltraCon in Austin, TX, can look forward to the new research and technology to be highlighted -- as well as the solar eclipse that will take place during the conference.
UltraCon, formerly the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) annual meeting, from April 6 to 10 will feature research covering several areas in ultrasound, including point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), elastography, contrast enhancement, and AI, among others.
“There’s that synergy that occurs when you get all these people together,” said David Jones, MD, president-elect of AIUM. “I think everybody is going t...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 4, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Ultrasound Imaging Leaders Source Type: news
French-led team unveils 11.7 tesla MRI scans of human brain
A research group based in Saclay, near Paris, has taken the wraps off what it claims are the world's first MRI scans of the human brain in vivo taken at a field strength of 11.7 tesla. President Emmanuel Macron has congratulated the researchers on social media.
"The first images surpassed our expectations, giving after just four minutes, mind-blowing brain images without any artifacts, with superb tissue contrast and resolution, which represents a volume equivalent to a few thousand neurons," Denis Le Bihan, PhD, founding director of the NeuroSpin research facility and founder of Iseult Project of the French Alternative E...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 4, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Philip Ward Tags: MRI Source Type: news
9 ways to ease the radiologist workforce shortage
Radiology is experiencing a workforce shortage, but there are at least 9 ways to mitigate it, according to a clinical perspective published April 3 in the American Journal of Roentgenology.
Lead author James Rawson, MD, of Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston and colleagues noted that, as the "current radiology landscape has an imbalance between the rising demand for radiology services and the national radiologist workforce available," it's crucial to implement creative strategies to address the workforce shortage issue.
"Rather than working longer and/or faster, there are ways for radiologists to work smarter," it noted...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 4, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Practice Management Source Type: news
GE launches new ultrasound AI software
GE HealthCare (GEHC) has launched AI software called Caption AI for cardiac assessments using its Vscan Air SL handheld ultrasound scanners.The software includes an AutoEF feature that automatically calculates ejection fraction, which can save time for clinicians, as well as AutoCapture and Save Best Clip features for acquiring images, GE HealthCare said. Caption AI can also help nonexpert ultrasound users assess patients with real-time visual guidance and prompts on probe movements, and includes a quality meter to ensure that users obtain quality images.The company said it will debut the technology at the American Colleg...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 3, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
ASRT names 2024 Life Member honorees
The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) will award Life Member status to two members during its upcoming 2024 annual meeting in June.
Catherine Kukec.Catherine Kukec and Bettye Wilson are the society’s newest Life Members, with the designation awarded by the ASRT Board of Directors to those who have maintained continuous membership for at least 30 years and who have demonstrated superior performance in support of the ASRT and the radiologic science profession.
Kukec, a diagnostic radiographer for Chicago Ridge Medical Imaging in Illinois, has been a member of the ISSRT for 38 years and has held positi...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 3, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Radiologic Technologist Source Type: news
SNMMI to tackle Capitol Hill
The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) will host its annual Hill Day on 5 in Washington, DC, with 65 members, patients, and industry colleagues set to lobby on key issues in the field.
On the agenda are discussions concerning the Nuclear Medicine Clarification Act of 2023 (H.R. 6815), which was introduced in the House on January 5. The legislation would direct the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to revise its regulations on event reporting “to protect patients from unintended exposure to radiation during nuclear medicine procedures,” the SNMMI said in a recent announcement.
“The SNMMI i...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 3, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Nuclear Medicine Source Type: news
Ultrasound shows ties between uterine fibroid risk, family history
Ultrasound data shows that family history of uterine fibroids is a risk factor for incident fibroids in Black and African American women, a study published April 3 in JAMA Network Open found.
Researchers led by Christine Langton, PhD, from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, NC, found that this trend was especially prevalent when mothers were diagnosed at a younger age. They also found that maternal history was tied to increased fibroid growth.
"While we confirmed that earlier maternal diagnosis had the strongest association with fibroid incidence, we were surprised that inc...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 3, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Ultrasound Womens Imaging Source Type: news
HPI study shows radiologists at MIPS disadvantage
Impeded by a smaller number of radiology-applicable quality measures, in 2021 radiologists in radiology-only practices scored significantly lower on relevant Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) gauges compared with other specialties.In contrast, those in multispecialty practices scored higher in the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) MIPS, although they rarely reported radiology-relevant MIPS quality measures, instead tracking those relevant to other specialties, according to a research letter from the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute (HPI) published April 3 in the American J...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 3, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Practice Management Source Type: news
Hoag launches Pylarify PET prostate cancer trial
Hoag healthcare system in Orange County, CA, has launched a clinical trial to assess the prostate cancer PET imaging radiotracer Pylarify in patients newly diagnosed with intermediate disease.
Currently, the radiotracer is approved in the U.S. for diagnosed prostate cancer patients to identify suspected metastasis or recurrence of the disease. The trial will use Pylarify with whole-body PET/CT scans in men with favorable intermediate prostate cancer, including Gleason Score 3+4 tumors, Hoag said.
The phase IV open-label multicenter trial will ultimately assess the safety and accuracy of the approach in an estimated 274 p...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 3, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Abortion care limitations raise medicolegal concerns in IR
Interventional radiology (IR) specialists should be aware of shifting individual state laws on abortion so as to not be blindsided when called on to provide care to pregnant patients, a clinician in the field cautioned recently.
In July last year, for instance, North Carolina joined 20 other states by passing new legislation that limits abortion based on timing, type, or other requirements, with 14 states having outright bans, noted Priya Mody, MD, an interventional radiologist in Chapel Hill. In a recent interview with AuntMinnie.com, she encouraged interventional radiologists to be aware of the nuances of these laws.
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Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 3, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Digital X-Ray Interventional Source Type: news
