The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ACSO) has identified the top five opportunities to improve care and reduce costs in oncology. PET, CT and radionuclide bone scanning dominate the list of high-cost, low-yield strategies and should be avoided in specific clinical scenarios, according to ASCO. The list was detailed online April 3 in the
Journal of Clinical Oncology.
St. Francis Hospital has installed Ingenuity CT and IntelliSpace Portal at its emergency facility.
The FDA has issued a draft guidance outlining its current thinking regarding information that should be included in premarket notifications for x-ray imaging devices with indications for use in pediatric populations.
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SPECT/CT is a powerful diagnostic tool that has improved interpretation of classic radioiodine scintigraphy, and current management protocols and guidelines in thyroid cancer should be reassessed in light of this new technology, according to an article published in the May issue of the
Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
National Jewish Health in Denver is launching a lung cancer screening trial that will combine a CT chest scan and the EarlyCDT-Lung blood test, and will seek to build on recent research demonstrating that CT screening alone can reduce lung cancer mortality.
An evaluation of a Pennsylvania-based academic community hospital has revealed that radiologists don’t always adhere to guidelines regarding the incidental finding of solitary pulmonary nodules on CT, often resulting in overmanagement, according to a study published in the May issue of the
Journal of the American College of Radiology.
The FDA has approved Toshiba America Medical Systems' Aquilion Prime 80 series CT system.
CT and ultrasound imaging do not have a meaningful impact on the negative appendectomy rate for boys older than five years, according to a study published in the May issue of
Pediatrics. The findings led the authors to recommend use of a decision algorithm that incorporates age and gender.
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Full-field-of-view (FOV) images from lumbar spine CT exams will show many incidental findings; however, most will be benign and only a small number of extraspinal pathologic findings will have substantial clinical importance, according to a study published online March 21 in
Radiology.
The number of overweight and obese individuals in the U.S. is increasing, and studies have shown that CT radiation dose is affected by patient size. New research has quantified this effect and shown that forced change of operation parameters to increase image quality for obese patients can result in an increase of up to 62 percent in organ radiation exposure compared with lower weight patients, according to a study published April 6 in
Physics in Medicine & Biology.
Despite the fact that radiation doses have been increasing along with a growing reliance on CT scans for diagnosis and therapy, the secondary cancer risk from multi-detector CT (MDCT) scans is low among older adults, the group subjected to the most frequent scanning, according to a study published in the April issue of the
Journal of the American College of Radiology.
The FDA has cleared Siemens Healthcare's Somatom Definition Flash dual-source CT system with the Stellar Detector for sale and distribution in the U.S.
The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg has invested in the Sectra Visualization Table for use by students in anatomy classes as a complement to dissection exercises.
The American College of Radiology (ACR) Education Center is offering its first course on high-resolution CT (HRCT) of the chest, April 20-22 in Reston, Va.
Mandating radiologists use computerized physician order entry (CPOE) for contrast media does not negatively affect the rate of oral contrast use for inpatient abdominopelvic CT, but that doesn’t mean radiologists will like it, according to a retrospective, single-center study published in the March issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
Patients treated at higher-spending hospitals in Canada saw better overall outcomes, according to a study published in the March 14 issue of the
Journal of the American Medical Association. The researchers concluded that despite Canada having fewer specialized healthcare resources compared with the U.S., Canadians may be using resources and medical technology more efficiently.
Acuo Technologies, a medical image management service developer, has integrated its Universal Clinical Platform (UCP3) software with enterprise cloud storage services provider Nirvanix’s public, hybrid and private cloud storage services.
The Radiation Therapy Oncology Group and the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) have launched a collaborative trial to evaluate adaptive radiotherapy (RT) with FDG-PET/CT for patients with non-small cell lung cancer.
Neuroimaging practices for stroke patients may be unnecessarily costly and redundant, with substantial increases in MRI utilization supplementing, rather than replacing, CT use, according to a study published in the February edition of
Annals of Neurology.
Siemens Healthcare has released the syngo DynaCT 360 application for the Artis zeego robotic interventional imaging system.
