Clinical Trials

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

Schematic depiction of the automated process for assessing fat, muscle, liver, aortic calcification, and bone from original abdominal CT scan data

Automated CT Biomarkers Predict Cardiovascular Events Better Than Current Practice

March 6, 2020 — Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and the University of Wisconsin have demonstrated that ...

March 06, 2020

M. Minhaj Siddiqui, M.D., associate professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, discusses benefits of MRI-targeted biopsy to more precisely diagnose aggressive prostate cancers

News | Prostate Cancer

Adding MRI-targeted Biopsy Leads to More Reliable Diagnosis of Aggressive Prostate Cancer

March 5, 2020 — Using a combination of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to target and sample suspicious prostate tissue ...

March 05, 2020

Christopher Comstock, M.D., ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group study published in JAMA builds evidence for use of abbreviated MRI in women with dense breasts

News | Breast Imaging

Abbreviated MRI Outperforms 3-D Mammograms at Finding Cancer in Dense Breasts

February 26, 2020 — According to a study published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association ...

February 26, 2020

An example of the MRI scans showing long-term and short-term survival indications. #MRI

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Finding New Clues to Brain Cancer Treatment

February 21, 2020 — Glioblastoma is an aggressive, killer disease. While victims of this fast-moving brain tumor ...

February 21, 2020

A cutting-edge magnet resonance imaging (MRI) technique to detect iron deposits in different brain regions can track declines in thinking, memory and movement in people with Parkinson's disease #Parkinsons #MRI

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Iron in Brain Shows Cognitive Decline in People with Parkinson's

February 21, 2020 — A cutting-edge magnet resonance imaging (MRI) technique to detect iron deposits in different brain ...

February 21, 2020

Arizona State University researchers (in collaboration with Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center) have discovered a biocompatible cost-effective hydrogel that can be used to monitor therapeutic doses of ionizing radiation by becoming more pink with increasing radiation exposure

News | Radiation Therapy

A New Way to Monitor Cancer Radiation Therapy Doses

February 18, 2020 — More than half of all cancer patients undergo radiation therapy and the dose is critical. Too much ...

February 18, 2020

Accuray TomoTherapy total body irradiation

News | Radiation Therapy

Studies Support Use of Accuray TomoTherapy System for Advanced Rectal Cancer

February 7, 2020 — Accuray Incorporated announced that two new studies demonstrate the benefits of the TomoTherapy ...

February 07, 2020

News | Clinical Trials

Advanced Medical Imaging Combined with Genomic Analysis Could Help Treat Cancer Patients

February 3, 2020 — Melding the genetic and cellular analysis of tumors with how they appear in medical images could give ...

February 03, 2020

News | Ultrasound Imaging

AJR Researchers Take Step Toward Automated Triage of Thyroid Cancer

January 30, 2020 — According to an article published ahead-of-print in the April issue of the American Journal of ...

January 30, 2020

Virtual reality during chemotherapy has been shown to improve breast cancer patients’ quality of life during the most stressful treatments

News | Virtual and Augmented Reality

First Italian-American Study on Virtual Reality and Breast Cancer Shows Promising Results

January 21, 2020 — Virtual reality during chemotherapy has been shown to improve breast cancer patients’ quality of life ...

January 21, 2020

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Tampere University in Finland have developed a method based on artificial intelligence (AI) for histopathological diagnosis and grading of prostate cancer

News | Prostate Cancer

AI Can Be Used to Detect and Grade Prostate Cancer

January 20, 2020 — Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Tampere University in Finland have developed a ...

January 20, 2020

News | Prostate Cancer

Prostate Cancer can now be Diagnosed Better Using Artificial Intelligence

January 13, 2020 — Researchers at Radboud university medical center have developed a "deep learning" system that is ...

January 13, 2020

Professor Samer Ezziddin, M.D., from Saarland University/Saarland University Hospital.

News | Prostate Cancer

Nuclear Radiologists 'Outsmart' Prostate Cancer with an Apparently Ineffective Drug

January 13, 2020 — When a non-scientist tries to imagine a scientist, the image that often arises is one of a somewhat ...

January 13, 2020

The study found that DBN laws helped some women understand they had increased breast density, but not that breast density is associated with a higher risk of breast cancer or that dense breasts limit the ability of mammograms to detect cancer

News | Breast Density

Breast Density Notification Laws not Effective for all Women

January 9, 2020 — A new study suggests that state-mandated notifications on mammogram reports intended to inform women ...

January 09, 2020

News | Prostate Cancer

Targeted Screening Could Prevent One in Six Prostate Cancer Deaths

January 3, 2020 — Nearly one in six deaths from prostate cancer could be prevented if targeted screening was introduced ...

January 03, 2020

News | Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Identifies Previously Unknown Features Associated with Cancer Recurrence

December 27, 2019 — Artificial intelligence (AI) technology developed by the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence ...

December 27, 2019

The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) presented its eighth Alexander R. Margulis Award for Scientific Excellence to Jae Ho Sohn, M.D., from the Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Department at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF)

News | RSNA

Alzheimer’s Disease AI Research Receives RSNA Margulis Award

December 24, 2019 — The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) presented its eighth Alexander R. Margulis Award ...

December 24, 2019

Patient inclusion flowchart shows selection of women in the training and validation samples used for deep neural network development, as well as in the test sample (current study sample). Exclusions are detailed in the footnote. PACS = picture archiving and communication system. Image courtesy of Radiological Society of North America.

News | Artificial Intelligence

AI Improves Breast Cancer Risk Prediction

December 17, 2019 — A sophisticated type of artificial intelligence (AI) can outperform existing models at predicting ...

December 18, 2019

A new market report focuses on breast imaging devices, paying special attention to their recent emergence

News | Breast Imaging

Global Breast Imaging Device Market Forecast

December 17, 2019 — The "Breast Imaging Device Market Size, Outlook and Growth Opportunities, 2019- 2025" report is now ...

December 17, 2019

radiation exposure triggers an immune response in the brain that severs connections between nerve cells

News | Clinical Trials

Radiation Breaks Connections in the Brain

December 17, 2019 — One of the potentially life-altering side effects that patients experience after cranial ...

December 17, 2019