Dear AuntMinnieEurope Member,
A broken arm prevented the legendary Willi Kalender, PhD, from giving a keynote lecture in San Francisco earlier this week, but his message was still heard loud and clear: Highly promising new CT technologies are making their way to commercial scanners.
To find out more about Kalender's latest thoughts, go to our CT Community, or click here.
Dr. Stephen Achenbach is another German researcher who always captures an audience's attention. His team has assessed the utility of high-iodine-concentration formulas to improve image quality. They tested three different agents in more than 200 patients to see if attenuation and the contrast-to-noise and signal-to-noise ratios improved when iodine concentration was increased. You'll find the results of their analysis here.
Carrying on this week's German theme, a group from Cologne has scooped the Image of the Year award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. They used three different radiotracers with PET to measure amyloid plaques, tau tangles, and metabolic activity in the brains of living Alzheimer's patients. Visit the Molecular Imaging Community, or click here.
In the U.K., the Royal College of Radiologists has published a comprehensive report on the benefits of image-sharing. To learn more and find out how you can download the document for free, go to our PACS Community, or click here.
Finally, Swedish researchers have found that adding 3D automated breast ultrasound to digital mammography in a screening setting can lead to noteworthy improvements in the invasive breast cancer detection rate in women with dense breasts, and also results in an acceptable recall increase. Get the story here.
