Medical Imaging

Physicians utilize medical imaging to see inside the body to diagnose and treat patients. This includes computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-ray, ultrasound, fluoroscopy, angiography,  and the nuclear imaging modalities of PET and SPECT. 

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Repeated negative thinking associated with amyloid and tau deposition, increased dementia risk

Engaging in such thought patterns over a long period of time could raise an individual's chance of developing the brain disease, according to a new study.

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Man dies after CT scan report showing cancer goes unread for more than a year

A number of IT systems failures and a radiology report below the standard of care contributed to the man’s passing.

COVID-19 hinders imaging departments from understanding, treating related neurological symptoms

Some hospitals have even shied away from ordering brain MRIs for suspected stroke patients with the novel virus either because they are too sick to physically move into a machine or for fear of contamination.  

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Ultrashort echo time MRI ‘valuable’ for assessing pulmonary diseases in COVID-19 patients

The approach was on-par with CT scan quality at detecting some of the most common findings associated with the disease, including lesions and ground-glass opacities, experts wrote in the Journal of MRI.

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Lung ultrasound ‘substantially’ influences treatment for pregnant women with COVID-19

Treatment for COVID‐19 was either started or changed in 87.5% of the patients based on LUS findings, doctors reported in the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.

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PET/CT helps track response, progression in patients with difficult-to-treat prostate cancer

The new study included more than 120 men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, and was presented during the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2020 virtual meeting.

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FDA approves first PET agent for tau imaging

Tauvid was developed by Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Eli Lilly, and offers clinicians a new type of brain scan to use in patients being evaluated for Alzheimer's disease.

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Children with COVID-19 often have negative chest CT findings, study shows

In a subset of children with positive imaging findings, however, bilateral and lower lobe-predominant ground-glass opacities are common.

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