Dear CT Insider,
We're at least six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, and clinicians continue to learn more about how the disease manifests. One of these manifestations is pulmonary embolism.
In this edition's Insider Exclusive, we're highlighting a study conducted by French researchers who found that CT pulmonary angiography can help doctors evaluate the risk of patients for this COVID-19 complication, even if they aren't presenting with severe disease.
After you've read our featured story, see how deep learning can refine cardiac CT results by eliminating exams negative for coronary artery calcium -- which could translate into a more efficient radiology workflow. Then discover what a group of researchers from the U.K. have to say about how coronary CT angiography compares with exercise electrocardiography alone for assessing heart disease risk.
Next, learn what a team from Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City thinks about which modalities are best for imaging COVID-19. (Spoiler alert: Chest CT can be a great tool for identifying early disease and tracking lung abnormalities.) And find out about how effective CT is for diagnosing COVID-19 in children.
We're also highlighting what could be a relatively simple solution to the complex problem of protecting CT staff from SARS-CoV-2 infection in an article about a prototype isolation bag for imaging COVID-19 patients on CT developed by a team from the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
Finally, take a look at our article about how quantitative computer-aided analysis of chest CT scans could help physicians better predict COVID-19 outcomes in hospitalized patients -- using the metric of compromised lung volume.
Thanks for reading! Be sure to check in regularly with AuntMinnie.com's CT Community for up-to-the-minute coverage of news and research developments.
