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Brachytherapy is an essential treatment for cervical cancer, but it requires precise delivery of a high dose of radiation to the tumor while leaving surrounding tissue untouched. That's a challenging task, but 3D volumetric MR images can be invaluable for treatment planning, according to researchers from St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix.
These images, reconstructed from an isotropic 3D T2-weighted sequence, offer a host of brachytherapy planning advantages, including excellent multiplanar tumor visualization, quantitative tumor burden assessment, and accurate analysis of temporal response, according to Dr. Olga Kalinkin, PhD.
Find out how the group did it in this edition's Insider Exclusive, which you can access before our other AuntMinnie.com members.
In other news in the Advanced Visualization Digital Community, the combination of computer-aided detection (CAD) software and electronic bone suppression was found to help radiologists detect lung nodules on chest radiographs. Find out more by clicking here.
In addition, an advanced visualization technique that utilizes curved maximum intensity projections of the skull was shown by Austrian researchers to significantly improve sensitivity for detecting thin epidural and subdural hematomas. How much did sensitivity increase compared to reading only transverse CT sections? Click here to find out.
Radiologists were also recently shown to prefer CAD software that's tightly integrated with PACS, providing them with CAD results in as few clicks as possible, according to German researchers. What else did they conclude? Get all the details here.
Dr. Joshua Fenton has become known as a prominent CAD skeptic, and in his latest research effort, he examined the short-term outcomes of screening mammography using CAD by measuring differences in detection rates for invasive cancer and ductal carcinoma in situ. Click here to learn more.
Also, learn how advanced iterative reconstruction can improve automated plaque assessment in CT angiography.
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