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AuntMinnie 2013: NY hospital to shutter radiology residency program

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In 2013, our top article covered a decision by a New York City hospital to close its radiology residency program. Ed itor's note: As part of the celebration of AuntMinnie.com's upcoming 25th anniversary, we're presenting 25 for 25 -- a series featuring our most popular content for each of the last 25 years.

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Study highlights clinical potential of tau PET scans

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The study included data pooled from 6,514 participants from 13 countries collected between January 2013 and June 2024. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA), namely the imaging agent flortaucipir ( Tauvid , Eli Lilly). Among participants (mean age, 69.5 years old; 50.5% to 4 years.

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Radiologists are reading more cardiac CT exams, but not cardiac MRI

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Al-Ogaili's research used data from cardiac CT CPT codes culled from the Part B Physician and Other Supplier Public Use File (POSPUF) database between 2013 and 2020. The investigators found that 38, 806 cardiac CT exams were performed in 2013 and 112,909 in 2020, an increase of 191%. per 1,000 Medicare enrollees in 2013 to 3.2

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New criteria released for amyloid and tau PET imaging

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The update is the first revision since the initial guidance for amyloid PET was introduced in 2013, noted the two organizations in a January 8 announcement. Since then, the U.S.

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Targeted alpha therapy’s ‘elite 8’ radionuclides

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Lead on the research, Vani Vijayakumar, MD, chief of nuclear medicine at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, noted that radium-223 opened the door for TAT, with the approval in 2013 of radium-223 dichloride (Ra-223, Xofigo) for patients with advanced prostate cancer.

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Private equity acquisition rising in radiology

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Private equity firms acquired more than 150 radiology practices involving nearly 3,500 locations between 2013 and 2023, according to research performed by Mihir Khunte and Yashaswini Singh, PhD, from Brown University in Providence, RI. The researchers evaluated imaging practice acquisitions in the U.S.

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ARRS: Hype is growing around whole-body MRI

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Michelle Lee, MD, and ARRS Between 2013 and 2024, more than 3,000 posts with the terms whole body MRI, Prenuvo MRI, or Ezra MRI were made by nearly 2,000 unique users. The group evaluated public sentiments based on discussions on Reddit, a platform with more than 57 million daily users. Headlines capture the hype around WB-MRI.

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