Dear AuntMinnieEurope Member,
Based on the report in the Turkish media about last month's MRI accident in Izmit, the outcome could have been a lot worse. The patient who was lying on the metal stretcher that reportedly got stuck to the scanner could easily have died.
There's talk of an investigation into the incident. We plan to bring you an update as soon as we can.
This week's second most popular article is about the death of a 33-year-old woman who had swallowed her dental plate. Since this report went live on Tuesday, two readers have posted their comments below the final paragraph of text, and they're well worth reading.
Awareness of CT radiomics seems to be rising fast, as reflected by the number of publications and congress sessions on this topic. In a new study posted by the European Journal of Radiology, the authors showed how radiomics features extracted from CT images of the perithrombus region of the brain improve the prediction of intracranial hemorrhage after endovascular thrombectomy.
In another important article with great clinical images, a German team has found that using photon-counting CT for abdominal imaging to diagnose kidney stones reduces patients' radiation exposure by 44% compared with conventional CT.
Finally, we have news of a PET/MRI study from Belgium that provides insights into the neurobiology of late-life depression.
Philip Ward
Editor in Chief
AuntMinnieEurope.com
