New research suggests the technique can effectively break down amyloid fibrinogen microclots, which are believed to interfere with perfusion and cause inflammation.
The photoacoustic CT, or PACT, imaging technique is said to perform comparably to mammography for cancer detection, but without the discomfort of standard mammograms.
When combined with artificial intelligence-based noise reduction techniques, new photon-counting CT technology can increase the detection of bone disease while also decreasing radiation exposure.
The event was the sixth Workshop on Medical Applications of Spectroscopic X-ray Detectors, which wrapped Sept. 1 at the largest particle physics lab in the world.
The effect shows up on functional MRI as increased brain activity in regions involved in pain, emotion and attention—not only during the procedure but also afterward, when patients remember the experience and score its discomfort level.
Six radiologists interpreting around 500 chest radiographs with an assist from AI bested unaided radiologists in measures of efficiency and/or accuracy in a new comparative performance study.
New research, published in JAMA Cardiology, challenges the common belief that AFib is more likely to develop among men than women. The key problem, it seems, is that prior research teams did not understand the significance of certain risk factors.
