Clinical Trials

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Philips connects oncologists and pathologists around the world to MD Anderson’s Precision Oncology Decision Support (PODS) system of actionable clinical information

News | Clinical Decision Support

Philips and MD Anderson Collaborate to Provide Oncologists with Evidence-based Therapy, Clinical Trial Guidance

June 16, 2020 — Philips and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center announced a collaboration to provide ...

June 16, 2020

Diffusion tractography uses the movement of water molecules to identify tracts that connect different parts of the brain. It can be used to pinpoint the part of the thalamus to treat with focused ultrasound. Image courtesy of UT Southwestern Medical Center

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Advanced MRI scans may improve treatment of tremor, Parkinson's disease

June 15, 2020 — Recently developed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques used to more precisely target a small ...

June 15, 2020

Random Walk Imaging (RWI), a company developing novel software solutions for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), announced positive data today from a study in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients using its proprietary scanning method and software protocol.

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Random Walk Imaging’s Software Protocol Enables Detection of White Matter Damage in MS Patients’ Brain Tissue

June 11, 2020 — Random Walk Imaging (RWI), a company developing novel software solutions for magnetic resonance imaging ...

June 11, 2020

The thickness of the cartilage covering the end of each bone is colour-coded, with red areas denoting thinner cartilage and green-blue areas denoting thicker cartilage. The technique helps locate where arthritis is affecting the joint over time.

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Improved MRI Scans Could Aid in Development of Arthritis Treatments

June 11, 2020 — An algorithm that analyzes magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images and automatically detects small ...

June 11, 2020

Early diagnosis of cancer is one of the highest-priority problem for the healthcare system, because it is critical for overall treatment success and saving patients' lives. Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) may be used to detect a malignancy in various tissues and organs. It has the advantage of providing insight into the diffusion of water molecules in body tissues without exposing patients to radiation.

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

MRI Technique Developed to Improve Detection of Tumors

June 2, 2020 — Early diagnosis of cancer is one of the highest-priority problem for the healthcare system, because it is ...

June 02, 2020

a Schematic of the system. The entire solid tumour is illuminated from four sides by a four-arm fibre bundle. A cylindrically focused linear array is designed to detect optoacoustic signals from the tumour. In vivo imaging is performed in conical scanning geometry by controlling the rotation and translation stages. The sensing part of the transducer array and the tumour are submerged in water to provide acoustic coupling. b Maximum intensity projections of the optoacoustic reconstruction of a phantom of pol

News | Breast Imaging

High-resolution 3-D View Inside Breast Tumors

May 26, 2020 — Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. But individual tumors can vary significantly ...

May 26, 2020

A new technique developed by researchers at UC Davis offers a significant advance in using magnetic resonance imaging to pick out even very small tumors from normal tissue. The team created a probe that generates two magnetic resonance signals that suppress each other until they reach the target, at which point they both increase contrast between the tumor and surrounding tissue

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

New Double-contrast Technique Picks Up Small Tumors on MRI

May 26, 2020 — Researchers at the University of California, Davis offers a significant advance in using magnetic ...

May 26, 2020

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have surveyed the amount of gadolinium found in river water in Tokyo. Gadolinium is contained in contrast agents given to patients undergoing medical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, and it has been shown in labs to become toxic when exposed to ultraviolet rays. The researchers found significantly elevated levels, particularly near water treatment plants, highlighting the need for new public policy and removal technologies as MRI become even more commonp

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

MRI's Environmental Impact

May 26, 2020 — Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have surveyed the amount of gadolinium found in river ...

May 26, 2020

Remote reading of imaging studies on home picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) workstations can contribute to social distancing, protect vulnerable radiologists and others in the hospital, and ensure seamless interpretation capabilities in emergency scenarios, according to an open-access article published ahead-of-print by the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR).

News | PACS

Work-from-Home PACS Enables Social Distancing During Pandemic

May 21, 2020 — Remote reading of imaging studies on home picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) workstations ...

May 21, 2020

Examples of chest CT images of COVID-19 (+) patients and visualization of features correlated to COVID-19 positivity. For each pair of images, the left image is a CT image showing the segmented lung used as input for the CNN (convolutional neural network algorithm) model trained on CT images only, and the right image shows the heatmap of pixels that the CNN model classified as having SARS-CoV-2 infection (red indicates higher probability). (a) A 51-year-old female with fever and history of exposure to SARS-

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Mount Sinai First in U.S. to Use AI to Analyze Coronavirus Patients

May 19, 2020 — Mount Sinai researchers are the first in the country to use artificial intelligence (AI) combined with ...

May 19, 2020

Now a research team — led by Tohoku University Professor, Wataru Yashiro — has developed a new method using intense synchrotron radiation that produces higher quality images within milliseconds.

News | Computed Tomography (CT)

Unlocking the Gate to the Millisecond CT

May 15, 2020 — Many will undergo a computed tomography (CT) scan at some point in their lifetime — being slid in and out ...

May 15, 2020

Colored areas of the brain represent regions where the loss of brain synapses in people with early-stage Alzheimer’s was greater than people with normal cognitive function.

News | PET Imaging

New Imaging Tool Helps Researchers See Extent of Alzheimer's Early Damage

May 14, 2020 — New imaging technology allows scientists to see the widespread loss of brain synapses in early stages of ...

May 14, 2020

Experimental Protocol and Representative MRI of Brains at Various Key Points in That Protocol.

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Scientists Show MRI Predicts the Efficacy of a Stem Cell Therapy for Brain Injury

May 13, 2020 — Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute and Loma Linda University Health have ...

May 13, 2020

Richard J. Price, Ph.D., of the University of Virginia's School of Medicine and School of Engineering, is using focused soundwaves to overcome the natural 'blood-brain barrier,' which protects the brain from harmful pathogens. Photo courtesy of Dan Addison | UVA Communications

News | Focused Ultrasound Therapy

Focused Ultrasound Opening Brain to Previously Impossible Treatments

May 7, 2020 — University of Virginia researchers are pioneering the use of focused ultrasound to defy the brain's ...

May 07, 2020

People with cancer who develop COVID-19 are much more likely to die from the disease than those without cancer, according to physician-researchers at Montefiore Health System and Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Cancer Patients Face High Mortality from COVID-19

May 5, 2020 — People with cancer who develop COVID-19 are much more likely to die from the disease than those without ...

May 05, 2020

#COVID19 #Coronavirus #2019nCoV #Wuhanvirus #SARScov2 OneOncology says clinical trial accruals increase in the face of COVID-19

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Clinical Trial Accruals Have Increased in the Face of COVID-19

April 17, 2020 — OneOncology, the national partnership of independent community oncologists, said today that enrolling ...

April 17, 2020

#COVID19 #Coronavirus #2019nCoV #Wuhanvirus #SARScov2 According to the 10 authors from multiple institutions across the US who reviewed the most frequently cited studies on the subject: 'Test performance and management issues arise when inappropriate and potentially overreaching conclusions regarding the diagnostic performance of CT for COVID-19 pneumonia are based on low-quality studies with biased cohorts, confounding variables, and faulty design characteristics.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

A Review of Studies Cautions Against Chest CT for Coronavirus Diagnosis

April 17, 2020 — To date, the radiology literature on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pneumonia has consisted of limited ...

April 17, 2020

#COVID19 #Coronavirus #2019nCoV #Wuhanvirus #SARScov2 New studies use SIRD model to forecast COVID-19 spread; examine patient CT scans to correlate clinical features with mortality

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Two Studies Use SIRD Model to Forecast COVID-19 Spread

April 1, 2020 — A new study, Data-based analysis, modelling and forecasting of the COVID-19 outbreak, published March 31 ...

April 01, 2020

A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute shows an important predictor of PET-CT use

News | PET-CT

African Americans, Hispanics Less Likely to Receive Recommended Lung Cancer Imaging

March 12, 2020 — The use of PET-CT imaging gives doctors the best possible picture of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) ...

March 12, 2020

SoftVue image stacks of sound speed, as shown for cases ranging across the four Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) breast density categories

News | Breast Imaging

Study Finds Potential of Whole Breast Ultrasound Tomography to Improve Breast Cancer Risk Assessment

March 10, 2020 — Delphinus Medical Technologies, Inc., a leader in advanced breast ultrasound technology, announced that ...

March 10, 2020