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Every minute counts when a patient with an ischemic stroke is on the table and the interventional radiologist is trying to restore blood flow to the brain. Which is why a new MRI-guided catheter technique is so intriguing, despite a lack of experience with human stroke patients.
MARC, short for magnetically assisted remote-controlled catheter, outruns the plodding MRI-guided catheters of the early 2000s by using ambient magnetic fields to steer itself into tiny blood vessels in the brain to resolve clots. Find out more in this issue's Insider Exclusive, brought to you first as a community subscriber.
A decade ago, a shining future of computer-aided detection (CAD) for lung CT seemed to be just around the corner. But powerful applications that could lead to faster and more accurate diagnosis are still all but unknown in daily practice.
What happened? Find out what Dr. Geoffrey Rubin thinks about it, and read his opinion on how the delays have given researchers the time they needed to build better systems and optimize their use. Learn more about the state of lung CAD in 2014 by clicking here.
In abdominal imaging, researchers from NYU Langone Medical Center are using sophisticated image analysis to evaluate the aggressiveness of bladder cancer, which accounts for some 15,000 deaths a year in the U.S. Find out what they discovered here.
Finally, another image-analysis project is yielding new information about how diffuse lung disease affects pulmonary hypertension. Researchers from Japan are using 3D CT to probe the association between pulmonary hypertension, fibrosis, and emphysema. In patients with both diseases, it can be difficult to isolate the main contributor to pulmonary hypertension and, therefore, to determine the best course of care. Learn about their results by clicking here.
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