Clinical Research

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Scientists got mice high to study the 'munchies'

The brains of mice exposed to vaporized cannabis light up when anticipating food, new imaging research shows. 

Self-expandable TAVR cusp-overlap ICE

ICE guidance reduces risk of permanent pacemaker implantation after TAVR with a self-expandable valve

Heart teams can limit the risk of conduction disturbances that lead to permanent pacemaker implantation by utilizing both the cusp-overlap method and intracardiac echocardiography.

Eric Puroll, a project manager with the My Heart Your Heart program, examines donated pacemakers.

Cardiologists give recycled pacemakers to heart patients in need

When patients with pacemakers die, what happens to the device? Typically, it ends up being discarded and forgotten—they were designed to be single-use devices, after all—but that does not have to be the case.

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ChatGPT IDs incidental findings on CT images

New research suggests ChatGPT may be able to improve radiology workflows by performing an initial review of CT images.

Cancer center reduces urgent requests for CT reports by 60%

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center improved efficiency by adopting an automatic assignment system.

NIH awards $150M for nationwide imaging study to better understand ‘mixed dementia’

The UW School of Medicine is receiving the grant for a five-year study with an anticipated 2,000 participants.

Deep-learning model able to diagnose COVID-19 from X-rays alone

The model outperformed other AI and was able to diagnose COVID-19 in lungs with greater than 98% accuracy.

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Virtual reality able to measure thoracic ultrasound skill

Want to level up your ultrasound abilities? This test may actually improve them.