A new clinical guideline from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) provides recommendations on the use of radiation therapy to treat patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Recommendations include when radiation treatments are appropriate, as well as the optimal dosing, timing and fractionation for these treatments. The guideline, which also outlines strategies to prevent and mitigate common side effects of pancreatic radiation therapy, is published online in Practical Radiation Oncology, the clinical practice journal of ASTRO.

September 5, 2019 — An ahead-of-print article published in the December issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology ...

OSF HealthCare in Peoria, Ill., recently added a new Carestream DRX-Evolution Plus System to its portfolio of Carestream imaging solutions across the integrated health system’s diverse operations. The imaging portfolio include Carestream DRX-Revolution mobile X-ray systems and Carestream DRX-Ascend systems, along with Carestream DRX-Plus detectors.

Global Diagnostics Australia (GDA), a subsidiary of the Integral Diagnostics Group (IDX), has adopted artificial intelligence (AI) applications into its radiology workflow, and is one of the first diagnostic imaging companies in Australia to do so. GDA has partnered with AI company Aidoc to incorporate their algorithms into GDA's care management pathway. These AI applications will expedite patient diagnosis and treatment for several head, neck and chest conditions.

Help may be on the way for people who might lose contact with reality through a psychotic disorder, such as schizophrenia.

Despite a broad campaign among physician groups to reduce the amount of medical imaging, use rates of various scans have continued to increase in both the U.S. and Ontario, Canada, according to a new study. A recent reacceleration in the growth of imaging concerns researchers because it is widely believed to be overused. The study of more than 135 million imaging exams was conducted by researchers at UC Davis, UC San Francisco and Kaiser Permanente.