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PaxeraHealth has announced that it will be unveiling the Ark - a patent pending technology - at RSNA 2021. Inspired by the story of Noah’s Ark, the Ark is a zero-coding authoring platform that offers "Algorithms as a service" to help healthcare systems and academic centers to DIY their own artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for all possible modalities, body parts, and anomalies.

PaxeraHealth Launches the Ark at RSNA 2021

November 2, 2021 — PaxeraHealth has announced that it will be unveiling the Ark - a patent pending technology - at RSNA ...

November 02, 2021

A 37-year-old woman developed a new, palpable left supraclavicular lymphadenopathy lump five days after her first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in the left arm. On the day of vaccination, the patient was asymptomatic. This is an example of how the vaccine can mimic cancer and swollen lymph nodes. Read more about this case study. Image used with permission of RSNA.

Feature | Radiology Business | Melinda Taschetta-Millane

November 2, 2021 — Here is a list of the Top 10 most popular pieces of content on ITNonline.com from the month of ...

November 02, 2021

FLASH therapy, powered by the use of Varian’s ProBeam, is an experimental treatment modality delivering radiation therapy at ultra-high dose rates, in typically less than one second.

News | Proton Therapy

Varian and the Cincinnati Children's/UC Health Proton Therapy Center Complete Enrollment of FAST-01

November 2, 2021 — Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company, and the Cincinnati Children's/UC Health Proton Therapy Center ...

November 02, 2021

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IBA Dosimetry Features Compass 3.0 at AAPM 2013

IBA Dosimetry's Compass 3.0 is a unique two-in-one solution that allows the user to do both calculations and ...

August 13, 2013

Philips will demonstrate its Multimodality RT Simulation Workspace, a precision medicine application that provides a vendor-agnostic single space for simulation, multimodality image fusion and contouring

News | ASTRO

Philips Highlights New Patient-centered Innovations at ASTRO 2021

November 2, 2021 — Philips announced new innovations that can help improve cancer care across the patient journey at the ...

November 02, 2021

Data presented demonstrates use of DCISionRT and its response subtype (Rst) was able to identify women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) (Stage 0 breast cancer) who remain at an elevated risk of recurrence despite receiving breast conserving surgery (BCS) and radiation therapy (RT).

News | Radiation Therapy

PreludeDx Presents DCIS Precision Medicine Study Results at ASTRO 2021 Annual Meeting

November 2, 2021 — Prelude Corporation, a leader in molecular diagnostics and precision medicine for early-stage breast ...

November 02, 2021

T1-Based Criteria for Myocarditis on Cardiac MRI in Patients With Recent COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination: Early gadolinium enhancement (EGE) compared with precontrast SSFP sequence (not shown) is observed on early postcontrast short-axis SSFP images in (A) 16-year-old male, (B) 17-year-old male, (C) 16-year-old male, and (D) 19-year-old male, and on early postcontrast short-axis perfusion image in (E) 17-year-old male (arrow, A-E). Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) is also present (arrows) in all 5 patients (F, G

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Cardiac MRI of Myocarditis After COVID-19 Vaccination in Adolescents

November 1, 2021 — According to ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), radiologists need to be cognizant of the ...

November 01, 2021

Koning begins an FDA screening trial this month for their no-compression, Isotropic, 3-dimensional breast imaging device. The company received FDA PMA approval for commercial, diagnostic use in 2017

News | Breast Imaging

Koning Begins FDA Clinical Screening Trial in Daytona Beach

November 1, 2021 — Koning begins an FDA screening trial this month for their no-compression, Isotropic, 3-dimensional ...

November 01, 2021

New ultrafast photon detectors allow for rapid processing of data from positron emission or X-ray scans without the need for tomography to reconstruct images. This image shows a brain phantom (model) scanned by positron emission using the new technology.

News | PET Imaging

Detector Advance Could Lead to Cheaper, Easier Medical Scans

November 1, 2021 — Researchers in the U.S. and Japan have demonstrated the first experimental cross-sectional medical ...

November 01, 2021

18F-FDG PET in patients with long-COVID syndrome. A and B: Transaxial sections of group averaged, spatially normalized 18F-FDG PET scans in patients with long-COVID syndrome (A) and control patients (B). C: The pattern expression score (PES; *adjusted for age and sex, for illustration purposes) of the previously established COVID-19-related spatial covariance pattern was not significantly different between patients with long-COVID syndrome and control patients. Boxplots (grey), as well as individual values

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Molecular Imaging Suggests Long-COVID Symptoms may be Caused by Fatigue

November 1, 2021 — Long-term cognitive problems after a COVID-19 diagnosis may be a result of fatigue rather than ...

November 01, 2021

News | Molecular Imaging

NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes Expansion Event Unveils Advanced Radioisotope Production Equipment and Breaks Ground on First-in-Kind Therapeutic Radioisotope Production Facility

October 29, 2021 — NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, LLC, a global innovator in the development, production and ...

October 29, 2021

News | Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT)

Serial Radiation Therapy is Safe and Effective as Alternative Treatment to Systemic Therapy for Kidney Cancer

October 29, 2021 — In a new single-arm study, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported ...

October 29, 2021

Elekta Harmony radiation therapy system at ASTRO 2021.

360 Photos | Radiation Therapy

360 Degree View of the Harmony Radiation Therapy System at ASTRO 2021

This is a virtual tour of the New Elekta Harmony radiation therapy system at the American Society of Radiation Oncology ...

October 28, 2021

This is a 360 degree view inside one of the brachytherapy treatment rooms at the Northwestern Medicine's center center in Warrenville, Ill., in the western suburbs of Chicago. The room is equipped with a Varian VariSource brachytherapy afterloader.

360 Photos | Brachytherapy Systems

Brachytherapy Treatment Room 360 Degree View at Northwestern Medicine

This is a 360 degree view inside one of the brachytherapy treatment rooms at Northwestern Medicine's center in ...

October 28, 2021

In a phase 2 single-institution study, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers found that dose-equivalent preoperative radiation therapy for extremity/trunk soft tissue sarcoma delivered in five days rather than over the conventional five weeks produced similar benefits and treatment side effects.

News | Radiation Therapy

Optimizing Preoperative Radiation Therapy in High-risk Sarcoma

October 28, 2021 — In a phase 2 single-institution study, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers found ...

October 28, 2021

An individual patient data (IPD) meta-analysis of randomized, controlled clinical trials provides strong evidence for the addition of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) to definitive radiotherapy (RT) for the treatment of prostate cancer, with the projection that adding ADT to the treatment of 10-15 men would prevent the development of distant metastasis in one man.

News | Prostate Cancer

International Meta-analysis Quantifies Impact of Three Prostate Cancer Therapy Intensification Strategies

October 28, 2021 — An individual patient data (IPD) meta-analysis of randomized, controlled clinical trials provides ...

October 28, 2021

ViewRay, Inc. announced that the results of a multi-center study of 148 inoperable pancreatic cancer patients treated with MRIdian SMART (MR-guided stereotactic adaptive radiation therapy) were presented as part of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), the world's largest radiation oncology society, held October 24-27, 2021 in Chicago.

News | Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT)

New Outcomes Data Demonstrating Prolonged Survival for Inoperable Pancreatic Cancer Patients

October 28, 2021 — ViewRay, Inc. announced that the results of a multi-center study of 148 inoperable pancreatic cancer ...

October 28, 2021

Chest radiograph without Auto Lung Nodule Detection (ALND) and chest radiograph with lung nodule marked.

News | Artificial Intelligence

Samsung Receives FDA Clearance for AI Algorithms that Detect Lung Nodules in Chest X-rays

October 28, 2021 — NeuroLogica Corp. announced it has received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for ...

October 28, 2021

News | Mammography

Penn Medicine, Siemens Healthineers Offer Mobile 3D Mammography Screenings for Underserved Patients

October 27, 2021 — As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Penn Medicine will be providing free breast cancer ...

October 27, 2021

The top two rows show images of cars and digits. Given such data, conventional methods are fairly good at spotting anomalies (right) among ordinary cases (left). The bottom two rows show medical scans — these prove to be more difficult. Image courtesy of Nina Shvetsova et al./IEEE Access

News | Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Spots Anomalies in Medical Images

October 27, 2021 — Scientists from Skoltech, Philips Research, and Goethe University Frankfurt have trained a neural ...

October 27, 2021

Carestream’s AI features are powered by Eclipse—the engine behind the company’s cutting-edge imaging software platforms—that uses proprietary algorithms and AI to amplify the value of the entire imaging chain.

News | Artificial Intelligence

Carestream Showcases Artificial Intelligence Innovation at RSNA 2021

October 27, 2021 — Carestream Health will highlight the imaging and workflow value of artificial intelligence (AI) in ...

October 27, 2021