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Brachytherapy dose calculation just got better
Everyone agrees that patients undergoing radiotherapy usually do not resemble uniform water spheres with a 30-cm diameter. Nevertheless, this is the common assumption of radiation dose calculations used for brachytherapy.
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Dublin team evaluates radiation dose in PSMA PET/CT
Reducing average injected dose and uptake time in prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET/CT can lead to improved patient throughput, according to Irish researchers.
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Reducing average injected dose and uptake time in prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET/CT can lead to improved patient throughput, according to Irish researchers.
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An initiative is underway in Belgium to improve the justification and appropriateness of radiology referrals. But will it succeed? Prof. Erik Ranschaert gives his opinion.
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Assessing CT image quality: Which method is best?
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Dutch researchers have evaluated established and new techniques for assessing CT image quality and created a decision tree as a guide for method selection.
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Developing diagnostic reference levels for common CT procedures, along with an emphasis on training of CT radiographers, are key factors in the optimization process, researchers from Dublin have asserted.
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SPECT/CT identifies prostate cancer patients with poor outcomes
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Post-therapy SPECT/CT scans after cycle 2 of Lu-177 PSMA-617 can identify advanced prostate cancer patients with poor outcomes.
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More ultrasound cuts risks in pregnancies with less fetal movement
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Additional Doppler ultrasound in pregnant women who feel less fetal movement leads to fewer complications compared to usual care, a Dutch study has shown.
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German team aims to cut radiation dose in IR
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Researchers from Freiburg have reported that digital variance angiography can reduce radiation dose to patients during some interventional radiology (IR) procedures.
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How well do LLMs interpret bone fracture textual CT reports?
By Kate Madden Yee
German researchers have found that large language models (LLMs) show promise for analyzing radiology reports of bone fractures imaged on CT.
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Audit concentrates on high error rate in cardiovascular MRI
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Errors made at a U.K. hospital by a radiologist who reported on cardiovascular MRI scans have come under review to determine if they contributed to misdiagnoses or patient deaths.
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Can lung scans predict delirium in elderly COVID-19 patients?
By Amerigo Allegretto
Lung ultrasound may help predict delirium in elderly COVID-19 patients when combined with cognition exams, Italian researchers have found.
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Tragedy in Scotland puts focus on workplace culture
By Philip Ward
The tragic case of a neuroradiologist who died by suicide has cast light on the scale of the mental health difficulties faced by many doctors and the essential need to establish adequate safeguards to protect all employees.
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How can we measure happiness in radiology?
By Maryam Payne
Investing in the well-being of staff radiologists pays dividends for institutions in the form of better patient outcomes and tangible benefits to healthcare systems, according to a new EJR article.
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