Clinical Research

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Music eases anxiety during imaging. But, don’t let patients pick their playlist

Not all genres are equal in a clinical setting.

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Study examines outcomes of resection for ground-glass adenocarcinomas in the lungs

Researchers from Harvard Medical School looked into clinical findings for three types of nodules seen across 469 patients.

elderly patient using virtual reality TAVR transcatheter aortic valve replacement

Virtual reality may reduce chronic pain, preliminary study shows

AppliedVR and neuroimaging company Kernel are producing multiple analyses as part of an ongoing research collaboration.

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Bullied children are at risk of developing psychotic disorders

Researchers at the University of Tokyo found bullied adolescents had lower levels of regulatory neurotransmitters in the brain.

Supply crunch forces ED to develop contrast use mitigation protocol for PE

The protocol led to a reduction in CT scans without sacrificing diagnostic accuracy.

ACR earns $100K grant to upgrade lung cancer registry

The college is one of seven groups to receive the grant aimed at improving best practices for lung cancer reporting.

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Harvard professor accused of doctoring images used in decades of research

A total of 28 studies have been flagged as potentially fraudulent, with some published as early as 2001.

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Thinner gray matter ribbons signal dementia risk

Researchers examined decade-old MR images from Framingham Heart Study participants to develop their observation.

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The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

The newly cleared offering, AutoChamber, was designed with opportunistic screening in mind. It can evaluate many different kinds of CT images, including those originally gathered to screen patients for lung cancer. 

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