Protocols, resources can reduce CT use in child appendectomy patients
Developing protocols and having resources available are a couple of ways hospitals can limit radiation exposure from CT imaging to children who have undergone appendectomies, suggest findings published March 20 in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery.
A team led by Peter Juviler, MD, from the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York described shared qualities among hospitals with low CT use and strategies for decreasing postoperative CT imaging for children with complicated appendicitis -- strategies that involve interdisciplinary collaboration and the promotion of radiation stewardship.
“In the evaluation and ma...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 20, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Practice Management Subspecialties Administration Genitourinary Radiology Pediatric Radiology Source Type: news
Ultrasound Plus MRI Could Be New Treatment Strategy Against Prostate Cancer
WEDNESDAY, March 20, 2024 -- Precisely delivered ultrasound could be an effective treatment for prostate cancer, with high-frequency sound waves heating and killing off cancer cells, a new study says.
The treatment killed off all prostate cancer... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - March 20, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
AI detects COVID-19 in lung ultrasound images
Johns Hopkins University has highlighted research that shows AI can spot COVID-19 in lung ultrasound images.In a study published March 11 in Communications Medicine, researchers describe the development of an AI algorithm that analyzes lung ultrasound images to spot features known as B-lines, which appear as bright, vertical abnormalities and indicate inflammation in patients with pulmonary complications.“The findings culminate an effort that started early in the pandemic when clinicians needed tools to rapidly assess legions of patients in overwhelmed emergency rooms,” the university said, in a news release.Significan...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 20, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Subspecialties Chest Radiology Source Type: news
Ultrasound model predicts liver disease progress
A predictive model combining multiple ultrasonic parameters could discriminate between different liver diseases in a study published March 19 in Radiology.
A team of researchers led by Fangyi Liu, MD, from the Chinese PLA General Hospital in Beijing, found that their multiparametric ultrasound model can predict metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) in patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD), regardless of hepatitis B virus infection status.
“These findings are important for noninvasive assessment of the MAFLD disease process,” the Liu team wrote.
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Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 20, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Clinical News Ultrasound Genitourinary Radiology Source Type: news
Samsung and Bracco sign memorandum of understanding
Samsung Electronics subsidiary Samsung Medison and Bracco Imaging have established an agreement to develop and market ultrasound devices and contrast agents.
The companies recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at ECR 2024 in Vienna and are considering collaborative research to develop protocols for high-frequency and super-resolution imaging for diagnostic purposes. Global marketing activities will be focused on healthcare provider education and joint participation in strategic events.
In addition, Bracco's quantitative diagnostic analysis software will be integrated with Samsung Medison's diagnostic ultras...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 20, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
GEHC releases ultrasound segmentation AI research model
GE HealthCare (GEHC) has released an ultrasound segmentation AI research model called SonoSam Track that incorporates Nvidia technology.
SonoSam Track allows users to segment anatomy and lesions on ultrasound images, according to GEHC. It requires only two to six clicks for segmentation, a capability made possible by the use of Nvidia TensorRT software.
Foundation and generative AI models "could play a crucial role by enabling swift adaptation to various diseases, facilitating screening, early detection, tracking progression, and identifying non-invasive biomarkers with minimal training requirements, such as zero-shot or...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 19, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Many Children With Sickle Cell Anemia Do Not Meet Quality Indicators
MONDAY, March 18, 2024 -- A number of children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) have low rates of receipt of recommended antibiotic prophylaxis and annual transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasound, according to a study published online March 6 in... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - March 18, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Why Ethereum ’s circulating supply keeps falling to new lows
None Increased demand for the Ethereum network has led to a surge in burn rate. • None This has brought about a decline in the coin’s circulating supply. Ethereum’s [ETH] circulating supply has fallen to a new post-merge low, according to data from Ultrasound.money. In the last month, 86,219 ETH…#ethereum #ultrasoundmoney #ytd #layer1 #merge #defillama #ethereums #lidofinance #artemis #dexes (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 17, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News 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
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
Pulsenmore is expanding the application of its home ultrasound solution for pregnant women: a clinical trial with Michigan Medicine will focus on the remote assessment of the fetal biophysical profile
RAMAT GAN, Israel, March 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pulsenmore (TASE:PULS), the world leader in self-scan ultrasound technology for at-home use and remote clinical diagnosis, announces its new clinical study collaboration with Michigan Medicine. The study will examine the ability to conduct... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - March 13, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: TRI PDT Source Type: news
Olivia Munn Shares Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Reveals She Had a Double Mastectomy
Olivia Munn has revealed that she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2023 and had a double mastectomy. Munn shared the health update in an Instagram post that included a statement about receiving the diagnosis and photos from her treatment in the last year.
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“In the past ten months, I have had four surgeries, so many days spent in bed I can’t even count and have learned more about cancer, cancer treatment and hormones than I ever could have imagined,” she wrote. “Surprisingly, I’ve only cried twice. I guess I haven’t felt like there was ti...
Source: TIME: Health - March 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Moises Mendez II Tags: Uncategorized culturepod Source Type: news
Coronary angiography matches IVUS in guiding PCI stent implantation
Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is on par with quantitative coronary angiography when it comes to guiding stent implantation, a study published March 13 in JAMA Cardiology found.
Researchers led by Cheol Whan Lee, MD, from the University of Ulsan in Seoul, South Korea, found that both methods during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) showed similar rates of target lesion failure at 12 months.
“Findings of this study suggest that a standardized quantitative coronary angiography-based PCI algorithm may be an acceptable alternative to IVUS-guided PCI, and warrants further research,” Lee and co-authors wrote.
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Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 13, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Subspecialties Ultrasound Cardiovascular Radiology Source Type: news
Tracking breast cancer method of detection shows impact of screening
Standardized identification of the initial method of detection of breast cancer is feasible across different practice sites, according to a study published March 11 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
The study results could offer important data about the impact of screening in the U.S., wrote a team led by Sujata Ghate, MD, of Duke University in Durham, NC.
"Prospective collection of method of detection data may help determine how screening mammography and supplemental screening options (ultrasound, MRI) contribute to reduction of mortality and morbidity from breast cancers," the group noted.
The Ameri...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 12, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Clinical News Womens Imaging Breast Source Type: news
