Clinical Trials

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Lung cancer is the most common cancer in the world, with 2.2 million new cases and around 1.8 million deaths in 2020 alone

July 6, 2022 — Lung cancer is the most common cancer in the world, with 2.2 million new cases and around 1.8 million ...

July 06, 2022

A grant from the National Cancer Institute will build on Penn’s pioneering role in the use of intraoperative imaging technology that makes it easier and safer to remove tumors on or in the lungs

News | Lung Imaging

Penn Medicine Awarded $9 million to Advance Study of Technology That Lights Up Lung Cancer Tumors

June 29, 2022 — Building on Penn Medicine’s years of research and use of imaging technology that illuminates tumor ...

June 29, 2022

Flash therapy delivers radiation at ultra-high dose rates in typically less than one second and is capable of being over 100 times faster compared to conventional radiation therapy

News | Proton Therapy

Varian Receives Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) for Flash Technology Clinical Trial, FAST-02

June 27, 2022 — Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

June 28, 2022

NT and H.U.B. representatives signing the Letter of Intent on May 17, 2022 in Brussels, Belgium. From left to right: Prof. Nick Reynaert (H.U.B), Renaud Witmeur (H.U.B), Matthew Copeland (NT), Marko Valjavec (NT), Prof. Dirk Van Gestel (H.U.B), Elizabeth Reczek (NT)

News | Radiation Oncology

Collaboration Offers Cancer Patients a Revolutionary New Treatment Method at Institut Jules Bordet

June 27, 2022 — Neutron Therapeutics, Inc (NT) and the University Hospital of Brussels (H.U.B) today announced that they ...

June 28, 2022

The workflow of radiomics. Image courtesy of Yixin Wang

News | Radiation Therapy

Novel Radiomic Model Helps Predict the Treatment Response of Radiotherapy in Patients with Brain Metastases

June 24, 2022 — Recently, a collaborated research team led by Prof. LI Hai and Hongzhi Wang from Hefei Institutes of ...

June 24, 2022

A new precision radiotherapy technique described as ‘practice changing’ has been shown to reduce long-term side effects, including swallowing problems, for patients with head and neck cancer following treatment

News | Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)

Practice-changing Radiotherapy Technique can Reduce Swallowing Problems for Cancer Patients

June 7, 2022 — Two-year results from the Dysphagia-Aspiration Related Structures (DARS) trial, which is funded by Cancer ...

June 07, 2022

According to ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), evaluating chest CT findings offers an additional approach for demonstrating the efficacy of different COVID-19 vaccines in reducing the impact of a COVID-19 diagnosis.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

COVID-19 Vaccine Impact on Chest CT of Pneumonia in Symptomatic Patients

June 1, 2022 — According to ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), evaluating chest CT findings offers an ...

June 01, 2022

The new study examines over 1,000 patient attitudes toward AI and how it’s being used to support patient care

News | Artificial Intelligence

New Intelerad Research Shows 64% of U.S. Consumers Highly Trust Artificial Intelligence for Medical Imaging

May 31, 2022 — Patient trust is not a barrier to artificial intelligence (AI) adoption by medical imaging professionals ...

May 31, 2022

Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, isolated from a patient. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Image courtesy of NIAID

Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Scientists Use Machine Learning Models to Help Identify Long COVID Patients

Clinical scientists used machine learning (ML) models to explore de-identified electronic health record (EHR) data in ...

May 18, 2022

Dr. Clifford Cassidy, an Assistant Professor in the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine (CMM) and a scientist at The Royal's Institute of Mental Health Research (IMHR), is the paper’s first author. Image courtesy of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Research Suggests Specialized Brain Imaging can Unveil Mysteries of Alzheimer’s Disease, Other Disorders

May 13, 2022 — Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, one of the major causes of dependency and ...

May 13, 2022

Training program is open to underrepresented groups including female, Black, Native American, Asian, South Asian, Hispanic and non-binary cardiologists

News | Radiology Business

Abbott and Women as One Partner to Help More Underrepresented Physicians Lead Clinical Trials

May 12, 2022 — Abbott announced a new partnership with Women as One to launch a new program designed to train more ...

May 12, 2022

RefleXion Medical, a therapeutic oncology company pioneering the use of biology-guided radiotherapy (BgRT) for all stages of cancer, announced the enrollment of the first patient into its PREMIER registry, a prospective, real-world evidence clinical outcomes registry for patients with all stages of cancer, at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern in Dallas.

News | Radiation Therapy

RefleXion Announces Real-World Evidence Outcomes Registry to Evaluate Treatment Impact on all Stages of Cancer

May 4, 2022 — RefleXion Medical, a therapeutic oncology company pioneering the use of biology-guided radiotherapy (BgRT) ...

May 04, 2022

A group of CNIO researchers headed by Manuel Valiente have found a new strategy that could be used in patients with brain metastasis to detect radioresistance.

News | Radiation Therapy

CNIO Researchers Find a Way to Increase Effectiveness of Radiotherapy for Brain Metastasis

April 26, 2022 — A group of CNIO researchers headed by Manuel Valiente have found a new strategy that could be used in ...

April 26, 2022

The trial introduced the ChestEye Quality AI-powered double reading workflow, where Oxipit AI software analyzes chest X-ray images and corresponding radiologist reports to identify any unreported findings.

News | Artificial Intelligence

Oxipit and AstraZeneca Join Forces to Aid Early Lung Cancer Detection

April 26, 2022 — The companies conducted a joint pilot study, where Oxipit’s ChestEye Quality AI software is employed ...

April 26, 2022

Digital subtraction angiography images show basilar tip aneurysm (A) before and (B) at last follow-up after Woven EndoBridge device placement. Image courtesy of Radiological Society of North America

News | Radiology Imaging

Novel Treatment Effective for Sidewall Brain Aneurysm

April 21, 2022 — A novel mesh plug that has been traditionally used to treat brain aneurysms occurring where the blood ...

April 21, 2022

Blue Earth Therapeutics, a Bracco company and emerging leader in the development of innovative next generation therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Company’s Investigational New Drug Application (IND) application for 177Lu-rhPSMA-10.1.

News | Prostate Cancer

Blue Earth Therapeutics Announces U.S. FDA Clearance for Investigational New Drug (IND) Application for 177Lu-rhPSMA-10.1

April 19, 2022 — Blue Earth Therapeutics, a Bracco company and emerging leader in the development of innovative next ...

April 19, 2022

BUSM researchers have proposed a method of assigned sex estimation that is “population-inclusive” by using 3D volume-rendered computed tomography scans of ancestry skulls to estimate assigned sex at birth

News | Computed Tomography (CT)

Researchers Use Skull CT Scans to Estimate Assigned Gender at Birth

March 31, 2022 — One of the essential roles of the forensic anthropologist is the development of a biological profile ...

March 31, 2022

Dajiang Zhu (Image courtesy of UT Arlington)

News | Clinical Trials

To Detect Alzheimer’s Earlier, New Research to Map the Brain

March 22, 2022 — A University of Texas at Arlington computer science and engineering assistant professor has received a ...

March 22, 2022

Julia Herzen, Professor of Biomedical Imaging Physics at TUM, working together with her team at the micro-computed tomography scanner. Image courtesy of René Lahn

News | Computed Tomography (CT)

Advances in Micro-computed Tomography

March 15, 2022 — Researchers in biomedical physics and biology have significantly improved micro-computed tomography ...

March 15, 2022

A 3D image of a mouse's lungs, created with the new technique developed at KTH. Image courtesy of KTH Royal Institute of Technology

News | Lung Imaging

Method Offers Sharper Images of Lung Disease in Living Mice

March 10, 2022 — In a first for X-ray imaging, researchers in Sweden generated high resolution, three-dimensional images ...

March 10, 2022