Lung Imaging

News and new technology innovations concerning how imaging technology for the lungs. This includes computed tomography (CT), X-ray and ultrasound imaging of the lungs to diagnose and monitor treatment for lung cancer, COPD, pulmonary embolism (PE), pneumonia, tuberculosis and COVID-19 can be found on this channel.

A lung CT of a COVID-19 patient, showing ground-glass opacities in the lung from COVID pneumonia. Image courtesy of John Kim.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Free Web-based Lung and COVID-19 Imaging Data Management System Offered by PenRad

July 9, 2020 — With increased lung CT exam paradigms being used in the current COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak, and an ...

July 09, 2020

Feature | Mobile C-Arms | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane

Mobile C-arms Market Update

Moblie C-arms have seen several advances over the past decade, moving toward digital flat panel detectors, improved ...

July 08, 2020

Changes outlined in new draft U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) lung cancer screening recommendations will greatly increase the number of Americans eligible for screening and help medical providers save thousands more lives each year.

News | Lung Imaging

Updated USPSTF Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines

July 8, 2020 — Changes outlined in new draft U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) lung cancer screening ...

July 08, 2020

Thoracic findings in a 15-year-old girl with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C). (a) Chest radiograph on admission shows mild perihilar bronchial wall cuffing. (b) Chest radiograph on the third day of admission demonstrates extensive airspace opacification with a mid and lower zone predominance. (c, d) Contrast-enhanced axial CT chest of the thorax at day 3 shows areas of ground-glass opacification (GGO) and dense airspace consolidation with air bronchograms. (c) This conformed to a mosai

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

New Study Looks at Post-COVID-19 Emerging Disease in Children

June 26, 2020 — In recent weeks, a multisystem hyperinflammatory condition has emerged in children in association with ...

June 26, 2020

Researchers from five infectious disease hospitals across four districts in Guangzhou, China found that the less pulmonary consolidation on chest CT, the greater the possibility of negative initial reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) results for 21 patients (nine men, 12 women; age range, 26–90 years)

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Chest CT Can Distinguish Negative From Positive Lab Results for COVID-19

June 18, 2020 — An open-access American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) article exploring the diagnostic value of chest ...

June 18, 2020

According to a recent report by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers, artificial intelligence (AI) should be used to expand the role of chest X-ray imaging — using computed tomography, or CT — in diagnosing and assessing coronavirus infection so that it can be more than just a means of screening for signs of COVID-19 in a patient's lungs.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

AI Can Improve How Chest Images Are Used in Care of COVID-19 Patients

June 4, 2020 — According to a recent report by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers, artificial intelligence (AI) should ...

June 04, 2020

Largest case series (n=30) to date yields high frequency (77%) of negative chest CT findings among pediatric patients (10 months-18 years) with COVID-19, while also suggesting common findings in subset of children with positive CT findings

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

CT Findings of Coronavirus in Children Often Negative

May 29, 2020 — An investigation published open-access in the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) revealed a high ...

May 29, 2020

This is an artificial intelligence (AI) application from Lunit that automatically detects a collapsed lung (pneumothorax) on a Fujifilm mobile DR X-ray system. The AI automaticially scans all images as they are captured to determine if there is a critical finding and if so, immediately alerts the RT so it can be listed as a STAT read and so they cal alert the attending physician. Photo by Dave Fornell. #RSNA

Feature | Digital Radiography (DR) | By Dave Fornell

Advances in DR X-ray Technology at RSNA 2019

There were several new developments in digital radiography (DR) technology at the 2019 Radiological Society of North ...

May 26, 2020

The Philips Lumify point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) system assessing a patient in the emergency room combined with telehealth to enable real-time collaboration with other physicians.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

FDA Clears Philips Ultrasound Portfolio to Image COVID-19 Related Lung and Cardiac Complications

May 26, 2020 — Philips Healthcare recently received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ...

May 26, 2020

Lymphocytic Inflammation in a Lung from a Patient Who Died from Covid-19. The gross appearance of a lung from a patient who died from coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is shown in Panel A (the scale bar corresponds to 1 cm). The histopathological examination, shown in Panel B, revealed interstitial and perivascular predominantly lymphocytic pneumonia with multifocal endothelialitis (hematoxylin–eosin staining; the scale bar corresponds to 200 μm).

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Lungs of Deceased COVID-19 Patients Show Distinctive Features

May 22, 2020 — In a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), senior author Steven J. Mentzer, M.D ...

May 22, 2020

In a new study to help oncologists address the challenges COVID-19-positive lung cancer patients present, a team of global lung cancer specialists published a review of lung cancer treatments for patients with COVID-19

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Treatment Guidance for Lung Cancer Patients During COVID-19

May 18, 2020 — Lung cancer patients are at heightened risk for COVID-19 and the reported high mortality rate among lung ...

May 18, 2020

Chest radiograph of a 23-year-old male with no past medical history who tested positive for COVID-19 via RT-PCR and was subsequently discharged from the emergency department with home care and isolation precautions. Portable CXR shows right and left peripheral lower lung zone hazy opacities; total score=2

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Chest X-rays in the ER Can Help Predict Severity of COVID-19 in Younger Patients

May 15, 2020 — Chest X-rays performed on young and middle-aged adults with COVID-19 when they arrive at the emergency ...

May 15, 2020

16-year-old girl with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and known history of tuberous sclerosis who presented with acute hypoxic respiratory distress. Reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction testing confirmed diagnosis of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

COVID-19: Pediatric Findings in New Review of Lung Disorders

May 1, 2020 — Although the clinical symptoms of new pediatric lung disorders such as severe acute respiratory syndrome ...

May 01, 2020

News | Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Can Categorize Cancer Risk of Lung Nodules

April 27, 2020 — Computed tomography (CT) scans for people at risk for lung cancer lead to earlier diagnoses and improve ...

April 27, 2020

Zegami, the Oxford University data visualization spin-out, has announced it has written to the health ministers of ten countries asking them to provide X-rays of COVID-19 infected lungs.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Oxford University Spin-out Begins Search for 10,000 X-rays to Help Predict Outcome for COVID-19

April 27, 2020 — Zegami, the Oxford University data visualization spin-out, has announced it has written to the health ...

April 27, 2020

#COVID19 #Coronavirus #2019nCoV #Wuhanvirus #SARScov2 A new expert panel consensus statement published simultaneously in the journals Radiology: Imaging Cancer, Chest and the Journal of the American College of Radiology provides guidance to clinicians managing lung cancer screening programs and patients with lung nodules during the COVID-19 pandemic.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Experts Issue Guide on Lung Cancer Screening, Management During COVID-19

April 23, 2020 — A new expert panel consensus statement published simultaneously in the journals Radiology: Imaging ...

April 23, 2020

Data from Australia offers useful guidance for similar conditions in other advanced economies #lungcancer

News | Lung Imaging

Uptake of Lung Cancer Screening May Depend on Making Testing Fast and Convenient

April 22, 2020 — Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR — the professional society for health economics and ...

April 22, 2020

Age‐standardized, delay‐adjusted overall cancer incidence rates for 2012 through 2016 are illustrated among males and females by racial/ethnic group

News | Radiation Oncology

CDC Reports Cancer Death Rates Continue to Decline

March 16, 2020 — The Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer finds that cancer death rates continued to ...

March 16, 2020

The low-dose chest computed tomography (CT) scans used in lung cancer screening do not appear to damage human DNA

News | Lung Imaging

Low-dose Chest CT Leaves DNA Intact

March 11, 2020 — The low-dose chest computed tomography (CT) scans used in lung cancer screening do not appear to damage ...

March 11, 2020

Pulmonary imaging is important in the diagnosis of the acute lung injury associated with vaping, known as electronic cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury (EVALI), according to a special review article published in the journal Radiology

News | Lung Imaging

Abnormal Imaging Findings Key to EVALI Diagnosis in Vapers

January 28, 2020 — Pulmonary imaging is important in the diagnosis of the acute lung injury associated with vaping ...

January 28, 2020