AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Hybrid PET/MRI scans outperform either technique alone for identifying tumors in high-risk patients with suspected prostate cancer, according to research presented February 27 at ECR in Vienna. Our preliminary data confirmed the potential increase of sensitivity of the combined use of PSMA PET with MRI compared to each modality alone.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 24, 2025

Brain MRI shows promise for surveilling women at risk for asymptomatic stage IV breast cancer metastases by tracking molecular subtypes of the disease, researchers have reported. "[We Following [a] six-month MRI, the cumulative frequency was approximately a quarter across all subtypes."

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A commercially available deep-learning (DL) algorithm can enable good quality seven-minute shoulder MRI exams, according to research published February 18 in Radiology. Seven radiologists evaluated the MRI scan quality and the presence of artifacts using a Likert scale ranging from 1 (very bad/severe) to 5 (very good/absent).

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Using AI with mammography can help select women at high risk of breast cancer for supplemental MRI, according to research published February 4 in Radiology. However, access to MRI can be limited for some women. E) Concurrent axial subtraction MRI scan shows a large, diffuse, invasive lobular cancer (circle) in the right breast. (E)

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 11, 2025

Timely MRI patient feedback can help radiologists make improvements that positively translate toward the patient experience, suggest findings published April 11 in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology. The team also analyzed Press Ganey scores from a separate group of patients who underwent outpatient MRI concurrent with the study period.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In 2024, the percentage of MRI procedures performed in an outpatient setting decreased five percentage points to 66% of total MR procedures, according to the newly published IMV 2024 MR Market Outlook Report. Davin Korstjens of IMV Medical Information Division. Over the weekend, independent imaging centers are open for 7.8 The takeaway?

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its AI-powered Subtle-HD MRI acceleration and enhancement software. The SubtleELITE suite is compatible with all MRI scanners, the company said.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 19, 2025

MRI has identified parts of the brain needed to remember words -- and how those parts may be affected by epilepsy, according to a study published March 19 in Brain Communications.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 26, 2025

Microultrasound may be a suitable alternative to MRI for image-guided prostate biopsy, suggest findings published March 23 in JAMA. They also investigated whether a combination approach via microultrasound and MRI for fusion-guided biopsy would perform better than that of conventional combined approaches.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 28, 2024

MRI safety articles have always been popular with our members, so it’s not surprising that our top article in 2019 reported on a safety incident in Sweden. The police investigation into last Wednesday's accident at a mobile MRI unit in Swedish Lapland is underway and likely to take several weeks.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Using an AI tool with brain MRI in children finds 64% of focal cortical dysplasias (FCDs) -- abnormalities linked to epilepsy -- that radiologists miss, researchers have reported. in MRI-negative patients with FCD. The study was published February 24 in JAMA Neurology. in patients who were seizure-free a year after surgery and 63.7%

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

MRI offers excellent soft tissue contrast, making it well-suited for visualizing and quantifying different body compartments and tissues regarding their quality and quantity," the group noted. "T2-weighted The results were published February 19 in Investigative Radiology.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 5, 2024

MRI safety oversight is spotty at best, with gaps "big enough to drive a truck through," according to Tobias Gilk, founder of Gilk Radiology Consultants in Overland Park, KS, and senior vice president of Radiology-Planning in Mission, KS. MRI bed gurney accident, Kaiser Permanente Redwood City, CA. Image courtesy of Tobias Gilk.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The study results suggest that the model, called TotalSegmentator MRI, could improve radiology department workload, said senior author Jakob Wasserthal, PhD, of University Hospital Basel in Switzerland. To this end, D'Antonoli and colleagues built TotalSegmentator MRI, which they based on nnU-Net. for 13 anatomic structures).

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 2, 2025

The American College of Radiology (ACR) will offer Belgium-based icometrixs brain MRI AI software through its Alzheimers Network for Treatment and Diagnostics (ALZ-NET).

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Phler's team explored whether a technique called free-breathing phase-resolved functional lung (PREFUL) MRI -- which analyzes air movement in and out of the lungs and blood flow through the lungs, and doesn't require radiation or intravenous contrast -- could better image patients with long COVID. "The

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AuntMinnie

MAY 8, 2024

SINGAPORE -- Auntminnie.com spoke with ultrahigh-field MRI expert Nicolas Boulant, PhD, of the NeuroSpin research center near Paris, at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) annual meeting. tesla MRI – to date, the highest magnetic field MRI used in humans, he said. The ‘good’ is simple.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Are low-field MRI units effective for neuroradiologic imaging? Use of low-field MRI for this indication would improve patient care by expanding access to the modality, wrote a team led by medical student Lauren Kelsey. MRI for diagnosis and assessment of neurologic conditions is most commonly performed on 1.5-tesla

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Health Imaging

JULY 18, 2024

A neurosurgeon is cautioning patients to check the material makeup of their clothes before donning them during an MRI exam.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 13, 2024

The use of breast MRI has increased 14-fold since the American College of Radiology (ACR) changed its guidelines in 2018, a study presented May 7 at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting found. Also, women with both dense breasts and a known genetic mutation had the largest MRI uptake of any risk cohort.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

Another option is to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to search for signs of a tumor before deciding whether a biopsy is necessary, reserving biopsies only for cases where abnormalities are detected. Researchers at conducted a study to determine whether this MRI-first approach is safe over the long term.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 16, 2025

Powered by the Oxford, England-based company's cortical disarray measurement technology, CDM Insights allows for clinical assessment of the brain's microstructures via MRI scans. It processes clinical MRI scan data from both 1.5-tesla Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It will also provide macrostructural measures.

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Health Imaging

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The unnamed woman had concealed the weapon, which the MRI machine triggered to fire during an exam.

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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 Images in a 40-year-old woman who underwent breast-conserving surgery for left breast cancer and a surveillance breast MRI examination 25 months after surgery. (A)

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 28, 2025

To better assess the current landscape and challenges of AI applications in cardiac CT and MRI specifically, the paper aims to bridge the gap between burgeoning research developments and limited clinical applications, according to lead author Domenico Mastrodicasa, MD, from the University of Washington in Seattle, and colleagues.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 3, 2024

A team led by Yin Ting Chiu, PhD, from the Hong Kong Children’s Hospital discussed key factors identified by the hospital’s MR team for effectively performing supplementary MRI scans on children ages three to seven without sedation. Performing MRI scans on young children can be challenging for radiologists.

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Health Imaging

MAY 6, 2024

This week at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine’s annual meeting, a team of experts presented new data on the technologist’s role in MRI safety events.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 18, 2024

FDG-PET/MRI is comparable or superior in diagnostic performance to FDG-PET/CT across a range of cancers and endpoints, according to a review of head-to-head studies published July 17 in the American Journal of Roentgenology. PET/MRI showed a staging accuracy in breast cancer of 98% versus 74.5% versus 69.2%. versus 69.2%. versus 66.2%

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Health Imaging

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

E-cigarettes, or vapes, are largely considered a safer alternative to smoking tobacco cigarettes, but new MRI data suggests they still pose significant risks to users’ health.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Modalities ranging from ultrasound and MRI to molecular breast imaging and contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) will have their time in the spotlight. Research will also showcase the latest advancements in OB/GYN imaging, such as radiogenomics for evaluating endometrial cancer features and fetal MRI to measure fetal cerebral blood flow.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 12, 2025

"Standard clinical practice has shifted from conducting systematic prostate biopsies without MRI guidance to using MRI-guided biopsies," the team wrote. A majority (179) of participants underwent multiparametric MRI, the authors noted.

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Health Imaging

AUGUST 30, 2024

The less control a person has over their diabetes, the greater the difference between chronological age and estimated brain age based on MRI markers, according to the study.

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Health Imaging

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Researchers have used 7T MRI to demonstrate that former COVID-19 inpatients are susceptible to persistent brainstem abnormalities associated with long-haul COVID symptoms.

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Health Imaging

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The new recall, which includes more than 155,000 implantable pulse generators , is due to ongoing issues with the devices being unable to exit MRI mode and return to normal use.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 4, 2024

A research group based in Saclay, near Paris, has taken the wraps off what it claims are the world's first MRI scans of the human brain in vivo taken at a field strength of 11.7 Such images would require hours to obtain with conventional MRI systems." President Emmanuel Macron has congratulated the researchers on social media.

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Health Imaging

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

MRI exams are crucial for investigating fetal abnormalities, but past concerns have been expressed about whether the modality could affect intrauterine growth.

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Imaging Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The eco-friendly design of the BlueSeal MRI with helium-free operations, makes it the lightest 1.5T 70cm MRI system available today [4]. We have installed more than 1,500 BlueSeal systems globally in wide-ranging settings including the world’s first helium-free mobile MRI units.

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