Swoop system tested in Alzheimer ’s patients
Portable MRI developer Hyperfine has enrolled the first patients in a trial to test its Swoop system in Alzheimer’s disease patients undergoing amyloid-targeting therapy.
The CARE PMR (Capturing ARIA Risk Equitably with Portable MR) observational study is designed to assess the clinical utility and workflow benefits of Swoop system. Imaging will be performed at infusion centers and clinics to help physicians detect amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIAs) in Alzheimer’s patients.
The study is led by Tammie Benzinger, MD, PhD, a professor of radiology and chief of MRI service at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radi...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 17, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
PET tracer for gliomas under expedited review
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted fast-track designation to Telix Pharmaceuticals’ PET radiotracer F-18 floretyrosine (Pixclara) for imaging progressive or recurring gliomas.
Pixclara was developed by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco. The tracer reveals the activity of specific transporter proteins known as LAT1 and LAT2, which are highly active in brain regions with gliomas. The technique can help determine if a glioma is truly progressing or undergoing a treatment-induced change, known as pseudo-progression, where standard MRI is often inconclusive, the company said.
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Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 17, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Molecular Imaging Source Type: news
AdvaMed urges Congress prioritize R & D tax credit
Medical technology trade association Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) is urging Congress to pass a tax provision to change how small businesses deduct their research and development expenses.
In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, AdvaMed President and CEO Scott Whitaker underscored the critical importance of passing such a provision.
“If Congress considers a tax package, we urge the inclusion of a provision allowing companies to deduct their research and development expenses in the year the expense was incurred,” Whitaker wrote.
Prior to 2022, the tax code allowed medical technology a...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 17, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Economics Source Type: news
Blackford and Lucida Medical partner on prostate cancer imaging
Blackford has entered a commercial partnership with Lucida Medical to integrate Lucida's prostate cancer MRI imaging software (Pi) into its AI platform.
Pi is designed to help healthcare professionals work more quickly by automating laborious steps and increasing accuracy for MRI detection of clinically significant prostate cancer. The software has proven effective in supporting analysis of prostate MRIs in real-world applications across multiple healthcare settings, scanner types, and vendors, Blackford said.
Lucida Medical is a spin-off company out of Cambridge University in England. Blackford’s AI platform provides ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 17, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Artificial Intelligence Source Type: news
POCUS used widely in lung ultrasound applications
Some of the top "domains" of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) incorporate the technology into lung ultrasound applications, according to research published in the Journal of Radiology Nursing.
A team led by the POCUS Certification Academy, part of Inteleos in Rockville, MD, published a list of the top 25 POCUS community-defined practice domains, dubbed “POCUS25.” They found via survey data that the POCUS community believes the most important domains are tied to imaging of the pneumothorax, pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade detection, normal lung ultrasound, basic practical physics, and extended focused assess...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 17, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Ultrasound Source Type: news
Tailored lung cancer screening model helps determine nodule follow-up
A personalized lung cancer screening model used with patients with pulmonary nodules identified on low-dose CT (LDCT) helps clinicians determine how to follow up better than rule-based protocols, researchers have found.
A group led by Zixing Wang, MD, of Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, China, found that a tailored model had a 0% rate of delayed diagnosis of lung cancer at 12-month follow-up. The results were published April 15 in Pulmonology.
Up to half of screened individuals have at least one pulmonary nodule on lung cancer screening, and determining the optimal time for follow-up testing of these nodules can ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 17, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: CT Source Type: news
AI proposed to help radiologists detect child abuse injuries
A team at Michigan State University has developed an AI model designed to detect rib fractures in children under three years old, with the ribcage being the most common fracture site in abused children.
The model approached the capabilities of expert human readers on a set of 1,109 pediatric chest x-rays and could serve as a tool to help detect injuries due to physical abuse, noted lead author Jonathan Burkow, a doctoral student, and colleagues.
“Rib fractures are extremely important to detect as they are a sentinel injury for physical abuse in young children that portend poor outcomes; a single rib fracture in child...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 17, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Digital X-Ray Source Type: news
RSNA and GE work to address breast cancer mortality in Tanzania
The RSNA and GE HealthCare plan to collaborate on mammography technology, training, and educational tools to lower the breast cancer mortality rate in Tanzania.Radiologists at Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH), part of the Muhimbili University of Health and Sciences and the largest public hospital in Tanzania, will receive mammography technology and advanced imaging training to help clinicians improve detection, diagnosis, and treatment of the disease.The project -- part of the RSNA’s Global Learning Center (GLC) initiative, which it launched in 2020 -- aims to help lower Tanzania's 50% breast cancer mortality rate, the ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 16, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Matsumoto named chair of ACR Board of Chancellors
Alan Matsumoto, MD.The American College of Radiology (ACR) has named Alan Matsumoto, MD, as chair of its board of chancellors.Most recently, Matsumoto served as vice chair of the board. Previously, he was chair of the ACR's Board of Chancellors (BOC) Commission on Interventional and Cardiovascular Imaging and a member of the ACR Council Steering Committee. He is chair of the department of radiology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and is the first Asian American named chair of the BOC, the ACR noted.Christoph Wald, MD, PhD, will serve as vice chair. Wald will also continue to serve as chair of the ACR Commi...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 16, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
SNMMI declares win in Washington, DC
The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) has declared an advocacy win, with language it crafted to promote nuclear medicine research included in the recently approved 2024 Defense Appropriations Act.
“In 2023, SNMMI worked closely with Congress for legislative language that increases recognition for the value of diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine research in federal agencies,” the SNMMI said, in a news release.
The legislative language encourages the director of the Department of Defense’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) to emphasize nuclear medicine to furth...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 16, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
ACR lays off 11% of workforce
The American College of Radiology (ACR) has laid off 11% of its workforce -- which translates to roughly 55 of its 500 staff members -- according to a statement released by the organization."After a thorough review, the American College of Radiology (ACR) made the difficult decision to reduce its workforce by approximately 11% to enhance the College's strong financial foundation as it continues to serve and advocate for its 40,000 members and their patients," ACR CEO William T. Thorwarth, MD said in a statement. "The decision, which took effect earlier this month, was largely influenced by the cumulative result of the CO...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 16, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Source Type: news
CT-based deep learning identifies patients at further lung cancer risk
A CT-based deep learning model can identify individuals with clinical stage IA non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) at high risk of further disease, researchers have found.
A model developed by a team led by Kwon Joong Na, MD, of Seoul National University Hospital and College of Medicine in South Korea demonstrated an area under the receiver operating curve (AUC) of 0.86 for predicting recurrence of disease at two-years post procedure. The group's results were published April 16 in Radiology.
Lobectomy has traditionally been the standard approach for treating early-stage lung cancer, but new research has suggested that s...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 16, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: CT Artificial Intelligence Source Type: news
Deep-learning model determines breast tumor staging
A deep-learning model based on mammographic images can determine tumor staging and sentinel lymph node metastasis in breast cancer patients, a study published April 15 in Informatics in Medicine Unlocked found. A team led by Elaheh Tarighati Sereshkeh from the Iran University of Medical Science in Tehran found that its convolutional neural network (CNN) model achieved high performance marks in these areas. “This method can be used as a potential non-invasive tool to determine tumor staging and sentinel lymph node metastasis in breast cancer in people suspected of having the complication and to avoid unnecessary surger...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 16, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Womens Imaging Artificial Intelligence Source Type: news
ChatGPT-4 matches radiologists in flagging errors on reports
In this study, the researchers intentionally inserted 150 errors from five error categories (omission, insertion, spelling, side confusion and “other”) into 100 of the 200 reports and tasked the ChatGPT-4 and two senior radiologists, two attending physicians, and two residents with detecting these errors.
ChatGPT-4’s detection rate was 82.7% (124 of 150), while the error detection rates were 89.3% for senior radiologists (134 out of 150) and 80% for attending radiologists and radiology residents (120 out of 150), on average, the researchers found.
In addition, GPT-4 required less processing time per radiology repor...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 16, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Artificial Intelligence Source Type: news
MICI Q2 2024: Radiology administrators remain optimistic about growth
Radiology administrators are confident that diagnostic and interventional radiology will continue to grow as a profit center, according to The MarkeTech Group's Medical Imaging Confidence Index (MICI) new report for the second quarter of 2024.
They're also confident that diagnostic and interventional radiology volumes will grow monthly. But they're less sure that their departments will receive adequate Medicare reimbursement for exams and that internal operating expenses and staff costs will remain constant compared to fourth-quarter MICI results.
The MarkeTech Group generates the MICI report from survey responses by r...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Practice Management Source Type: news
