Clinical Trials

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

Researchers studied participants in the Women’s Environmental Cancer and Radiation Epidemiology Study to evaluate the risk of coronary artery disease in breast cancer survivors.

Left Breast Radiation Therapy Doubles Heart Disease Risk in Young Women

September 22, 2021 — Radiation therapy is an effective and widely used treatment for breast cancer. While the benefits ...

September 22, 2021

Laws designed to help women with increased risk for missed breast cancer diagnoses may help catch the disease earlier, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

News | Breast Imaging

Legislation May Help Identify Breast Cancer Earlier in Certain At-risk Women

September 9, 2021 — Laws designed to help women with increased risk for missed breast cancer diagnoses may help catch ...

September 09, 2021

News | PET Imaging

Researchers Identify Mechanism That Can Help Guide Development of New STING-activating Drugs Using Imaging

September 8, 2021 — A new study from scientists at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center found that emerging ...

September 08, 2021

62-Year-Old Woman Who Underwent Hysterectomy for Uterine Cancer: Sagittal chest CT images demonstrate measurement of right (A) and left (B) lung length at hilar level from apex to diaphragmatic dome. Right lung length was 20.1 cm for reader 1 and 20.0 cm for reader 2; left lung length was 21.7 cm for reader 1 and 21.3 cm for reader 2. Patient did not require postoperative mechanical ventilation.

News | Computed Tomography (CT)

Preoperative Chest CT Improves Assessment of Postoperative Mechanical Ventilation

September 7, 2021 — According to ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), preoperative thoracic computed ...

September 07, 2021

Neuroscientists at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology carried out comparative studies to determine safe operating conditions for multiband EEG-fMRI imaging while maintaining acceptable data quality standards

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Beckman Neuroscientists Define Safe Protocol for EEG-fMRI Imaging

September 7, 2021 — A team of psychologists and neuroscientists at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and ...

September 07, 2021

Mount Sinai scientists created an AI-based, automated system that learns to read patient data from electronic health records. Here the system identified dementia cases (purple dots) from a database of nearly 2 million patients (blue dots). Courtesy of the Glicksberg lab, Mount Sinai, N.Y., N.Y.

News | Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Create a Labor-saving Automated Method for Studying Electronic Health Records

September 2, 2021 — In an article published in the journal Patterns, scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount ...

September 02, 2021

Cedars-Sinai Cancer researchers have discovered that intestinal microorganisms help regulate anti-tumor immune responses to radiation treatments.

News | Radiation Therapy

Radiation Therapy Effectiveness for Cancer Patients Influenced by Gut Fungi

September 1, 2021 — The study, published on Aug. 13 in the peer-reviewed journal Cancer Cell, builds on prior studies ...

September 01, 2021

Patients treated with Xoft Brain IORT lived for a range of 4 to 54 months after treatment without recurrence, whereas patients in the control group had a recurrence within 2 to 10 months and lived for 2 to 22.5 months after treatment

News | Brachytherapy Systems

iCAD’s Xoft Brain IORT Demonstrates Significant Improvement in Overall Survival in Recurrent Glioblastoma

August 31, 2021 — iCAD, Inc., a global medical technology leader providing innovative cancer detection and therapy ...

August 31, 2021

$Investigator-led study explores feasibility and tolerability of single-fraction stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy using MRIdian's daily MRI-Guidance with on-table adaptive replanning$

News | Radiation Therapy

Miami Cancer Institute Enrolls First Patients in Single-Fraction Stereotactic MRI-Guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy for Inoperable Primary or Metastatic Cancer Trial

August 30, 2021 — ViewRay, Inc. announced that the Miami Cancer Institute, part of Baptist Health South Florida, has ...

August 30, 2021

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden recently reported that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could reduce overdiagnoses and thereby improve prostate cancer screening.

News | Prostate Cancer

MRI Can Cut Overdiagnoses in Prostate-cancer Screening by Half

August 13, 2021 — Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden recently reported that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ...

August 13, 2021

Receiver operator characteristics curve for the optimal response classifiers, optimized for maximum F1-Score. The AUCs for each classifier are reported in the legend. Image courtesy of Gregory J. Czarnota

News | MRI Breast

Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Locally Advanced Breast Cancer

August 6, 2021 — Oncotarget published "MRI texture features from tumor core and margin in the prediction of response to ...

August 06, 2021

#cancer #radiation_therapy #radiation_oncology Genomic-adjusted radiation dose beneficial as a pan-cancer predictor of radiation therapy efficacy

News | Radiation Therapy

Study Confirms Effectiveness of New Personalized Approach for Radiation Therapy

August 5, 2021 — Researchers from Cleveland Clinic, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Moffitt ...

August 05, 2021

#coronavirus #COVID19 #pandemic A KAIST immunology research team found that a specific subtype of macrophages that originated from blood monocytes plays a key role in the hyper-inflammatory response in SARS-CoV-2 infected lungs, by performing single-cell RNA sequencing of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid cells

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

A Study Reveals What Triggers Lung Damage During COVID-19

August 4, 2021 — A KAIST immunology research team found that a specific subtype of macrophages that originated from ...

August 05, 2021

Positrigo reports completion of the ExploreBPET clinical study, using the novel investigational medical device BPET for imaging of the human brain

News | PET Imaging

Successful Exploratory Clinical Study with Ultracompact Brain PET Sevice

August 3, 2021 — Positrigo, a company developing nuclear medical imaging devices that advance functional imaging ...

August 03, 2021

The FLASH Effect significantly improves the therapeutic ratio for curing cancer

News | Radiation Oncology

IntraOp Announces First Patients Enrolled in FLASH Clinical Trial

July 28, 2021 — IntraOp Medical Corporation announced that Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV, Switzerland) enrolled the ...

July 28, 2021

64-Year-Old Man With Clear Cell Likelihood Score (ccLS) 5 Renal Masses

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

MRI, Clear Cell Likelihood Score Correlate with Renal Mass Growth Rate

July 22, 2021 — According to ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), the standardized non-invasive clear cell ...

July 22, 2021

Registration is now open for the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 107th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, the world’s largest annual radiology forum, to be held at McCormick Place Chicago, Nov. 28 – Dec. 2, 2021

News | RSNA

Registration Now Open for RSNA21

July 21, 2021 — Registration is now open for the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 107th Scientific Assembly ...

July 21, 2021

UCSF-led study matches brain imaging with prognosis, showing lingering impairment for some

News | Computed Tomography (CT)

For Concussion Patients, CTs Offer Window into Recovery

July 21, 2021 — Computed tomography (CT) scans for patients with concussion provide critical information about their ...

July 21, 2021

A new study published in JAMA Neurology suggests that certain features that appear on computed tomography (CT) scans help predict outcomes following mild traumatic brain injury (TBI)

News | Computed Tomography (CT)

NIH-funded Study Shows Imaging After Mild Brain Injury May Predict Outcomes

July 21, 2021 — A new study published in JAMA Neurology suggests that certain features that appear on computed ...

July 21, 2021

Ramon Alfredo Siochi, Ph.D. — the director of medical physics at WVU — led a task group to help ensure the accuracy of data that dictates a cancer patient's radiation therapy.

News | Radiation Oncology

WVU Researcher Leads Effort to Reduce Data-transfer Error in Radiation Therapy

July 15, 2021 — Just as helicopter traffic reporters use their "bird's eye view" to route drivers around roadblocks ...

July 15, 2021