Interactively employing computer-aided detection (CAD) technology while reading mammograms may lead to increased detection of breast masses, according to research from Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
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Cardiologists across the U.S. have been so enthralled with CT that they’ve tripled the modality’s installed base of units within cardiology practices in the past two years, according to a new report scheduled for release this month by market research firm IMV Medical Information Division.
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In the history of medical imaging turf wars, the primary battlegrounds have been in modalities such as echocardiography, musculoskeletal MRI, and nuclear cardiology. You can now add CT to the list, according to a new study that indicates CT procedure volume is spiking among nonradiologists.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Dec 19 - CT of the chest can serve a dual purpose in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), measuring both the severity of emphysema and vertebral bone density, physicians in Japan report.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Dec 10 - Transcranial Doppler (TCD) screening of children with sickle cell disease and treatment of those at high risk can markedly reduce the stroke rate in this patient population, according to study findings presented at the American Society of Hematology annual meeting in San Francisco.
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Breast MRI has been gaining clinical interest of late, with its high sensitivity rate of 86% to 100% for detecting breast cancer. But there can be overlap in the MRI findings of enhancing breast lesions, which makes patient treatment decisions difficult without biopsy. And because other imaging techniques don’t always find the breast lesions MRI [...]