Dear AuntMinnieEurope CT Insider,
Awareness of CT radiomics among the medical imaging community appears to be rising fast, as reflected by the growing 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. Check out our article posted today.
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.
Illicit drug abuse can have a substantial impact on the heart and lungs, but what's the role of radiology? And which imaging modality and techniques tend to produce the best results? Spanish and U.K. researchers have provided answers in a recently published report.
Meanwhile, experts from Barcelona, Spain, have reported that adding dynamic CT perfusion to cardiac CT angiography shortens the time to diagnosis of coronary artery disease. They presented their results at the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography meeting.
Also of note is that a global research team has found that patients who receive higher cumulative doses of radiation from CT have higher death rates from prior disease than those who receive lower doses. Interestingly, nearly one-third to half remain alive a decade later.
Philip Ward
Editor in Chief
AuntMinnieEurope.com
