Clinical Trials

Clinical trials and studies about imaging technology can be found on this channel.

As part of an international collaboration, researchers from Aarhus University and University of Leicester have succeeded in developing a dynamic 3-D CT scanning method that shows what happens inside the body during simulated heart massage

New CT Scanning Method May Improve Heart Massage

August 7, 2020 — Rapid first aid during cardiac arrest makes the difference between life and death. But what happens to ...

August 07, 2020

Ghost imaging approach could enable detailed movies of the heart with low-dose X-rays

News | X-Ray

Researchers Capture X-ray Images with Unprecedented Speed and Resolution

August 6, 2020 — Researchers have demonstrated a new high-resolution X-ray imaging technique that can capture the motion ...

August 06, 2020

AG Mednet, a technology company streamlining, automating and increasing data quality for clinical trials, announces significant expansion to its Submission Quality and Compliance (SQC) Toolkit. The Judi-based integrated image quality control (QC) product functionality gives core laboratories, CROs and sponsors the most complete and powerful capability to manage site image submissions in record time.

News | Information Technology

AG Mednet Launches Enhanced Clinical Trial Imaging Toolkit and DICOM Editing

July 29, 2020 — AG Mednet, a technology company streamlining, automating and increasing data quality for clinical trials ...

July 29, 2020

Prostate biopsy with cancer probability (blue is low, red is high). This case was originally diagnosed as benign but changed to cancer upon further review. The AI accurately detected cancer in this tricky case. Image courtesy of Ibex Medical Analytics

News | Prostate Cancer

Artificial Intelligence Identifies Prostate Cancer with Near-perfect Accuracy

July 28, 2020 — A study published in The Lancet Digital Health by UPMC and University of Pittsburgh researchers ...

July 28, 2020

(a) A schematic of cycloidal computed tomography (not to scale, seen from top); by adding an array of beam stops in front of the detector, the setup is transformed into an edge-illumination x-ray phase-contrast imaging device. (b) A sinogram sampling grid for a rotation-only scheme. (c) A sinogram sampling grid for a cycloidal scheme. The grids are shown for one mask period and a subset of rotation angles; the combination of empty and filled circles shows the grids that would be achieved through fine latera

News | Computed Tomography (CT)

New CT Scan Method Lowers Radiation Exposure

July 24, 2020 — A computed tomography (CT) scan technique that splits a full X-ray beam into thin beamlets can deliver ...

July 24, 2020

Medical professionals around the world have been feeding lung X-rays into a database since the beginning of the pandemic

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Using Lung X-rays to Diagnose COVID-19

July 22, 2020 — Researchers from the Department of Computer Architecture and Technology at the University of Seville's ...

July 22, 2020

Pioneering study, which included humans, led by Tel Aviv University researchers contradicts widespread conjectures

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

MRI Scans of Mammals Indicate Equal Connectivity

July 21, 2020 — Researchers at Tel Aviv University, led by Prof. Yaniv Assaf of the School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry ...

July 21, 2020

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Study Identifies Missing Piece Needed for Lower-cost, High-quality MRI

July 20, 2020 — Lowering the cost of magnetic-resonance imaging (MRI) could revolutionize how doctors diagnose and ...

July 20, 2020

PET/CT imaging showing uptake and retention of 86Y-NM600 (imaging agent) in immunocompetent mice bearing prostate tumors. PET imaging data was employed to estimate tumor dosimetry and prescribe an immunomodulatory 90Y-NM600 (therapy agent) injected activity. Image courtesy of R Hernandez et al., University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI.

News | PET-CT

Targeted Radionuclide Therapy Enhances Prostate Cancer Response to Immunotherapies

July 15, 2020 — Targeted radionuclide therapy has been found to create a favorable tumor microenvironment in prostate ...

July 15, 2020

Representative maximum-intensity projection PET images of a healthy human volunteer injected with 64Cu-NOTA-EB-RGD at 1, 8, and 24 hours after injection. Axial MRI and PET slices of glioblastoma patient injected with 64Cu-NOTA-EB-RGD at different time points after injection. Image courtesy of Jingjing Zhang et al., Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China/ Xiaoyuan Chen et al., Laboratory of Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine, NIBIB/NIH, Bethesda, USA

News | PET Imaging

New PET Radiotracer Proven Safe in Imaging Malignant Brain Tumors

July 15, 2020 — A first-in-human study presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2020 Annual ...

July 15, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted software was used to identify inflammatory tissues in lung and automatically segment inflammatory lesions. Three-dimensional image shows regions of COVID-19 pneumonia in lung through AI postprocessing. Image courtesy of the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR)

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

CT of Coronavirus Disease Versus CT of Influenza Virus Pneumonia

July 10, 2020 — An open-access American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) article investigating the differences in computed ...

July 10, 2020

Many patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) remain unresponsive after surviving critical illness. Investigators led by a team at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) now describe a patient with severe COVID-19 who, despite prolonged unresponsiveness and structural brain abnormalities, demonstrated functionally intact brain connections and weeks later he recovered the ability to follow commands

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Functional MRI Provides Encouraging Results in Unresponsive COVID-19 Patient

July 8, 2020 — Many patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) remain unresponsive after surviving ...

July 08, 2020

Industry leaders to research the growing importance of point-of-care ultrasound in COVID-19 care

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Fujifilm Sonosite and EMF Partner in the Battle Against COVID-19

July 2, 2020 —Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc. and the Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization ...

July 02, 2020

R2* maps of healthy control participants and participants with Alzheimer disease. R2* maps are windowed between 10 and 50 sec21. Differences in iron concentration in basal ganglia are too small to allow visual separation between patients with Alzheimer disease and control participants, and iron levels strongly depend on anatomic structure and subject age. Image courtesy of Radiological Society of North America

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Brain Iron Accumulation Linked to Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's Patients

July 1, 2020 — Researchers using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have found that iron accumulation in the outer layer ...

July 01, 2020

Thoracic findings in a 15-year-old girl with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C). (a) Chest radiograph on admission shows mild perihilar bronchial wall cuffing. (b) Chest radiograph on the third day of admission demonstrates extensive airspace opacification with a mid and lower zone predominance. (c, d) Contrast-enhanced axial CT chest of the thorax at day 3 shows areas of ground-glass opacification (GGO) and dense airspace consolidation with air bronchograms. (c) This conformed to a mosai

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

New Study Looks at Post-COVID-19 Emerging Disease in Children

June 26, 2020 — In recent weeks, a multisystem hyperinflammatory condition has emerged in children in association with ...

June 26, 2020

Case abstraction study period was from 10 March to 7 April 2020. Follow-up of abstracted cases was until 7 May 2020.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

MSK Researchers Find That Common Cancer Treatments Don't Worsen Coronavirus Infection

June 25, 2020 — The characterization of COVID-19 in patients with cancer remains limited in published studies and ...

June 25, 2020

Neurosurgeon Jason Sheehan, M.D., Ph.D., of UVA Health, is pioneering the use of focused ultrasound to treat glioblastoma, the deadliest brain tumor. Image courtesy of UVA Health

News | Focused Ultrasound Therapy

Focused Ultrasound Shows Promise Against Deadliest Brain Tumor

June 23, 2020 — An innovative use of focused ultrasound being pioneered at the University of Virginia School of Medicine ...

June 23, 2020

This image of DCE-MRI reveals persistent blood brain barrier disorder in American football players. Using brain imaging techniques and analytical methods, researchers can determine whether football players have CTE by measuring leakage of the blood-brain barrier. Image courtesy of Ben-Gurion University

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

MRI Test for Football Players Could Detect CTE

June 22, 2020 — Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative disease caused by repeated head injuries ...

June 22, 2020

Researchers from five infectious disease hospitals across four districts in Guangzhou, China found that the less pulmonary consolidation on chest CT, the greater the possibility of negative initial reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) results for 21 patients (nine men, 12 women; age range, 26–90 years)

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Chest CT Can Distinguish Negative From Positive Lab Results for COVID-19

June 18, 2020 — An open-access American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) article exploring the diagnostic value of chest ...

June 18, 2020

News | Ultrasound Imaging

Insights on the Worldwide Handheld Ultrasound Imaging Devices Industry

June 17, 2020 —"Insights on the Worldwide Handheld Ultrasound Imaging Devices Industry to 2030 - Impact of COVID-19 on ...

June 17, 2020