Archive for the 'MRI' Category

Breast MRI improves cancer staging for newly diagnosed women

Contrast-enhanced breast MRI finds breast lesions missed on mammography and ultrasound, and can help surgeons plan the best surgical treatment, improving patient outcomes, according to a study by Italian researchers presented at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting this week in San Diego.
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

MRI finds hip, pelvic abnormalities in healthy hockey players

Researchers in Pennsylvania have found that 70% of healthy professional and collegiate hockey players had abnormal hip and pelvis MRI scans, even though they had no symptoms of injury.
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Sunday, March 28th, 2010

1.5-tesla MRI pinpoints, stages testicular masses

MRI is an efficient diagnostic tool to evaluate testicular masses and accurately differentiate between benign and malignant intratesticular tumors, according to a study published in the March issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Breast MRI excels at high-risk screening; mammo not needed

Breast MRI is three times as accurate as other modalities for diagnosing breast cancer early in high-risk women, and it’s so good that mammography isn’t needed for annual screening of these women, according to a new study by German researchers published online this week in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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Sunday, March 7th, 2010

PET/MRI breast imaging prototype shows early promise

TORONTO - Preliminary results of a new PET/MRI prototype breast imaging system show that the hybrid technology could produce images with enough clarity to more accurately classify lesions.
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Saturday, June 20th, 2009

MRI with STIR fails to change diagnosis in child abuse cases

Although whole-body MRI using a short-tau inversion recovery (WB-STIR) sequence detects some bone contusions and fractures not found on initial radiographic bone surveys, the technique may not be ready to replace radiography in the initial assessment of traumatic injury in cases of suspected child abuse.
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Friday, May 15th, 2009