AuntMinnie

MAY 14, 2025

HONOLULU -- An AI-based framework can detect ischemic heart disease on myocardial perfusion MRI with only a very low dose of a gadolinium-based contrast agent, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM).

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) research centers saw a 77% drop in participants enrolling in clinical trials due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study conducted by epidemiologists at the University of Pittsburgh. Few recruitment approaches have been directly tested via intervention trials at Alzheimer’s disease centers, they added.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 29, 2025

Advances in brain PET imaging combined with new treatments for Alzheimers disease have given rise to the concept of "neurotheranostics," according to an April 28 presentation at the American Roentgen Ray Society annual meeting in San Diego. A conceptual framework for neurotheranostics. Several U.S.-approved

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AuntMinnie

MAY 11, 2025

An automated brain volumetry model for MRI shows promising accuracy in distinguishing frontotemporal dementia (FTD) from Alzheimer's disease and normal cognition, according to study results to be presented May 15 at the ISMRM meeting. Graphic and caption courtesy of Seung Hyun Lee and the ISMRM.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 6, 2025

Postoperative MRI surveillance appears to lower the odds of advanced second breast cancer in women with a personal history of the disease, researchers have reported. "In The research included 3,688 women who underwent breast cancer surgery between January 2009 and December 2014.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 15, 2025

Tau PET brain scans are associated with a high risk of clinical progression in both preclinical and symptomatic stages of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), according to a study published June 16 in JAMA. Beta-amyloid plaque deposits and tau protein neurofibrillary tangles are two hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 23, 2025

In a recent PET study with unexpected results, patients infected with herpes had fewer signs of brain deposits associated with Alzheimers disease than uninfected patients, a group in France has reported. The study was published January 18 in Scientific Reports. The median age of the group was 74 years old. The full study is available here.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 2, 2024

CHICAGO -- Characterizing an individual's type of body fat using body MRI can help predict Alzheimer's disease risk up to 20 years before symptoms manifest, according to research results presented December 2 at the RSNA meeting.

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Health Imaging

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Ron Blankstein, MD, professor of radiology, Harvard Medical School, explains the use of artificial intelligence to detect heart disease in non-cardiac CT exams.

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Radiology Business

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Yet, radiologists have had almost zero involvement in shaping medical knowledge about the disease. Imaging plays an essential role in addressing hepatic steatosis.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 6, 2025

While rates rose from near zero in early 2021 to nearly 70% in high- and very-high-risk patients by August 2023, however, rates of positive findings were low among patients with intermediate-risk disease, noted lead author Sean Miller, MD, of the Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System in Michigan.

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Radiology Business

MAY 16, 2025

Substantial growth in CT and MRI is replacing lower-cost modalities such as X-ray and ultrasound, experts write in JACR.

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Radiology Business

MAY 14, 2025

Algernon Pharmaceuticals Inc. plans to deploy the compact PET imaging system from Swiss firm Positrigo, cleared by the U.S. FDA last year.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 2, 2025

in 2022 for cases that are resistant to any standard treatments, the drug recently met its primary endpoint in a new trial in men with metastatic, hormone-sensitive disease at the beginning of their diagnosis, explained Oliver Sartor, of the East Jefferson General Hospital Cancer Center in New Orleans. After its initial approval in the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 20, 2025

Cancer treatments such as radiation therapy and chemotherapy may lead to a lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease in breast cancer survivors, suggest findings published June 20 in JAMA Network Open. The researchers also found that breast cancer treatment with radiation was tied to a lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 24, 2025

Amyloid PET scans in individuals with early signs of Alzheimers disease can identify those who are at higher risk of progressing to cognitive decline, researchers in Germany have reported. The study was published April 23 in the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

JUNE 24, 2025

A new technology that uses clinical MRI machines to image metabolic activity in the brain could give researchers and clinicians unique insight into brain function and disease, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign report.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 1, 2025

Most women undergo surgery, yet only 26% of DCIS cases are subsequently identified as invasive disease, the authors noted. From these, they identified radiomic phenotypes that were positively associated with upstaging to invasive disease following surgery. About 20% of new breast cancers in the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 21, 2025

Lung cancer screening finds disease in nonsmokers at comparable rates as their smoking peers, researchers have reported. Its primary outcomes were lung cancer detection rates and proportion of stage I disease. The project continued through July 2021.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 21, 2025

Supraclavicular lymph nodes, for instance, are lymph nodes found above the clavicle, and there is a paucity of literature on the prevalence of disease at these sites in patients with prostate cancer, the authors added. For the analysis, the researchers included 240 patients who underwent scans for primary staging of newly diagnosed disease.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 11, 2025

HONOLULU - MRI is an "indispensable" tool for the diagnosis and treatment staging of Alzheimer's disease, according to a talk delivered May 11 at the ISMRM meeting in Honolulu. Precision medicine in Alzheimer's disease will require detailed MRI phenotyping beyond amyloid status." The bottom line?

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 10, 2025

Columbia University researchers in New York City have reported that worsening depression in older adults is related to higher levels of Alzheimers disease pathology, specifically the accumulation of tau protein. The study was published April 9 in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. The full study can be found here.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 8, 2025

Deuterium metabolic imaging (DMI) was highly aligned with F-18 FDG-PET -- a cornerstone of dementia diagnostics -- in patients with Alzheimer's disease in a study published April 8 in Radiology. However, an exploratory analyses revealed that participants with Alzheimers disease had reduced signals for medial temporal lactate (0.7

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Some people with neurologic diseases experience a new onset of creative behavior and show specific patterns of damage that align with our creativity circuit," Kutsche said in a statement released by Mass General Brigham. The findings were published February 13 in JAMA Network Open.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

However, mpMRI misses about 10% of cases, typically in patients with lower-grade disease and in patients with cribriform pattern disease, a subtype much more likely to recur after surgery or radiation therapy, he noted. It also includes a well-established grading system that accurately correlates with histopathology.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 23, 2025

Most notably, F-18-FDS shows promise as a noninvasive diagnostic tool for addressing life-threatening mold-related invasive fungal diseases (IFDs), according to postdoctoral research fellow Carlos Ruiz-Gonzalez, MD, and colleagues from Johns Hopkins University Medical School in Baltimore, MD.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 30, 2025

Patients with radiologic complete response, node-negative disease, and high Ki-67 may be suitable candidates for trials evaluating surgical omission,” the Ramtohul team wrote. MRI is the most accurate imaging modality for analyzing tumor response and residual disease after neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy. in the training set and 3.5%

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 24, 2025

This drives the progression of neurodegenerative diseases and psychiatric disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and multiple sclerosis (MS). PET imaging showed significantly higher uptake of F-18 PDE-1905 in the brains of diseased mice compared to healthy controls.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 7, 2025

The study was published January 6 in Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases. To that end, the researchers investigated whether PSMA-PET scans -- which have a high negative predictive value (NPV) in determining whether cancer has invaded lymph nodes -- can be used to avoid unnecessary procedures in men with intermediate-risk disease.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Skeletal muscle mass begins to decrease as people age and is often seen in those with Alzheimer's disease, the team noted. Overall, the team found that a smaller temporalis muscle was associated with a higher risk of Alzheimer's disease dementia (hazard ratio, 1.59, with 1 as reference).

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Diagnostic Imaging

JULY 9, 2025

For patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease, the expanded FDA approval of the Exablate Neuro platform allows for the use of MRI-guided focused ultrasound in performing staged bilateral pallidothalamic tractotomy.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It's also a possibility that the disease mechanism that impairs pulmonary gas exchange also leads to higher brain perfusion through downstream vascular injury in both lung and brain," Staab said. "This relationship could be a compensatory mechanism where lower lung function is compensated by higher cardiac output and higher brain perfusion.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 3, 2025

Our study] demonstrated that PSMA-PET/CT detected metastatic disease in 46% of all patients, suggesting that a significant number of patients have disease that is understaged by conventional imaging," it noted. The results were published January 3 in JAMA Network Open. "[Our

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Intraarterial PRRT] may result in improved radiologic and clinical disease control compared with intravenous PRRT,” noted Adriana Amerein, MD, and colleagues. Three patients passed away one month, eight months, and 14 months after the first treatment cycle, while 10 patients showed disease control at radiologic follow-up.

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Health Imaging

MAY 8, 2025

Using one of the most powerful MRI scanners to date, researchers believe they have identified subtle neural changes in the brain that precede Parkinsons disease.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 13, 2025

Ultimately, ER-positive breast cancer represents a large subset of the disease, and endocrine therapies remain foundational in treatment, the researchers noted.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 18, 2025

vs. 79.6%, p Also, the frequencies of disease types and surgical therapy methods varied between the two cohorts. Comparison between disease type and treatment methods by cohort Disease/treatment method Clinical detection Screening detection Non-invasive disease 8.9% Localized disease 47.3% 0% Lumpectomy 39.3%

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