Will Morton

Portland

Editor at Aunt Minnie

I’m an editor at https://t.co/ebM1uH7ODi, a daily news website covering radiology and imaging.

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Articles

PET scans predict outcomes for patients undergoing CAR T-cell therapy

6 days ago | auntminnie.com | Will Morton

PET scans performed at one or three months after patients with large B-cell lymphoma begin chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR T-cell) therapy can indicate whether they are responding to the treatment, according to a study published April 17 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
New theranostics PET tracer shows promise

6 days ago | auntminnie.com | Will Morton

A new galium-68 (Ga-68)-labeled PET/CT radiotracer appears superior over F-18 FDG for detecting bone metastases, particularly in patients with osteoblastic lesions and prostate cancer, a group in China has reported. The finding is from a prospective trial comparing Ga-68 DOTA-IBA-PET/CT to F-18 FDG-PET/CT in 46 patients and supports the use of the tracer as a theranostics imaging agent, noted corresponding author Yue Chen, MD, of Southwest Medical University in Sichuan, and colleagues.
Subtle Medical inks deal with Strategic Radiology for MRI AI suite

1 week ago | auntminnie.com | Amerigo Allegretto |Will Morton |Erik L. Ridley |Liz Carey

AI software developer Subtle Medical has partnered with the Strategic Radiology coalition to offer members the SubtleElite AI-powered MRI suite. The suite includes three software applications -- SubtleHD, SubtleSynth, and SubtleAlign -- and is designed to increase efficiency, throughput, and diagnostic confidence for those using legacy MRI scanners, according to the vendor.
BSIR releases long-term strategic plan

1 week ago | auntminnieeurope.com | Liz Carey |Will Morton |Amerigo Allegretto

The British Society of Interventional Radiology (BSIR) has released a document outlining its long-term strategy and goals.
Judge tosses radiologist's lawsuit over public airing of transgender dispute

1 week ago | auntminnie.com | Liz Carey |Amerigo Allegretto |Will Morton

A federal judge in Wyoming has dismissed Casper radiologist Eric Cubin, MD's transgender issue-based lawsuit against the state's governor, Mark Gordon, Cowboy State Daily reported April 14. Last year, Cubin spoke out in personal support of Chloe's Law, a law that went into effect in July 2024 that restricts Wyoming physicians’ ability to provide transgender medical treatments and perform surgeries on minors, and against Wyoming Medical Society (WMS)'s public opposition to it.
AI for medical imaging service technicians speeds fix-it resolution time

1 week ago | auntminnie.com | Davin Korstjens |Joe Constance |Amerigo Allegretto |Will Morton

About half of medical imaging equipment service calls are not fully resolved on the first visit, according to a new report. Analysis of anonymized data by agentic AI software developer Aquant tracked 14 medical imaging service organizations and 6,500 technicians running almost 2 million service events on nearly 300,000 assets.
Multiple AVS samples may improve diagnosis of primary aldosteronism

1 week ago | auntminnie.com | Will Morton

Obtaining multiple sample sets during adrenal vein sampling (AVS) in patients with primary aldosteronism could more accurately guide treatment, according to a study published April 15 in Radiology. The finding is from an analysis that found AVS data inconsistencies in a third of patients with primary aldosteronism who underwent the procedure, noted first author Livia Mermejo, MD, of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and colleagues.
AAPM responds to CT cancer risk study

1 week ago | auntminnie.com | Will Morton

In response to an April 14 study that suggests CT scans are linked to new cases of cancer, the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) is countering that the benefits of CT exams far outweigh the risk of radiation exposure. The methods used by a team led by Rebecca Smith-Bindman, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco, are fundamentally statistical in nature and carry a large amount of uncertainty, the organization noted in a news release.
Prior breast screening tied to favorable disease staging, mortality

1 week ago | auntminnie.com | Amerigo Allegretto |Will Morton |Erik L. Ridley

Having a prior screening mammography available leads to breast cancers being found at an earlier stage, leading to lower mortality from the disease for older women, a study published April 15 in JAMA Network Open found. Researchers led by Michaela Dinan, PhD, from the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, CT found in their observational study that in older women, prior screening was tied to more favorable stage and mortality.
Swedish team puts focus on cost-effectiveness of DBT

1 week ago | auntminnieeurope.com | Erik L. Ridley |Will Morton |Amerigo Allegretto |Philip Ward

In a Swedish study published in the European Journal of Radiology on 12 April, researchers found that the perceived cost-effectiveness of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) compared to digital mammography to (DM) is dependent on the relative reduction in breast cancer mortality and patientsâ€™ willingness to pay for the screening, as well as future costs of DBT screening exams.