Konica Minolta applauds winner, runners up of SPIE research award
Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas congratulates the winner and runners-up of the Best Student Paper Award given by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) at its 2024 Medical Imaging Symposium in San Diego, CA. Konica Minolta sponsored the award as part of its continued commitment to the education and support of young scientists in medical imaging. The winner was Olivia F. Sandvold, a doctoral student in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania for her paper, “Hybrid spectral CT system with clinical rapid kVp-switching x-ray tube and dual-layer detector for improved iodin...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 14, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news

QT Imaging to deliver Breast Acoustic CT scanner to research centers
QT Imaging Holdings is delivering its Breast Acoustic CT scanner in collaboration with research centers in the U.S. and Canada. The company is collaborating with the Department of Radiation Oncology and Radiation Treatment Program at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This collaboration is part of a five-year research grant from National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute to develop an inexpensive, portable, safe, and repeatable imaging approach that can accurately identify early response of breast cancer patients to neoadjuvant ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 14, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news

Image-to-text strategy helps ChatGPT read thyroid ultrasound images
Large language models integrated with image-to-text approaches could potentially improve diagnostic thyroid ultrasound interpretation, according to research published March 12 in Radiology. A team led by Li-Da Chen, MD, PhD, from First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou found that ChatGPT 4.0 had the highest consistency and diagnostic accuracy when compared with Google Bard and ChatGPT 3.5 when it came to interpreting ultrasound images of thyroid nodules. Also, the image-to-text large language model strategy showed comparable performance to that of human large language model interaction involving t...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 14, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Ultrasound Source Type: news

CT-FFR shows how smoking affects heart volume-to-myocardial mass ratio
Both current and former smokers show lower coronary volume-to-myocardial mass ratio (V/M) on CT fractional flow reserve (CT-FFR), researchers have found. In a study published March 14 in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging, a team led by Kenneth Holmes, MD, of St Paul's Hospital and University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, reported that smoking was associated with lower coronary volume-to-myocardial mass ratio in individuals with coronary artery disease (CAD) -- results that further cement the link between smoking and heart disease. "[We found that] current and former smoking were independently associated with ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 14, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Clinical News CT Cardiovascular Radiology Source Type: news

Imaging surveillance suggested for radial scars found on DBT
Imaging surveillance may be the way to go for monitoring radial scars without atypia found on screening digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), research published March 13 in the American Journal of Roentgenology found. In a study, Claire Crowley and Manisha Bahl, MD, from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, found that screening-detected radial scars without atypia at core-needle biopsy have a low upstaging rate to breast cancer of less than 2%. “Our results, which show that surgical excision is not necessary for all patients with radial scars, could lead to a reduction in unnecessary surgery and could save patients ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 14, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Subspecialties Womens Imaging Breast Breast Imaging Source Type: news