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via medGadget: Mobile Clinical Imaging On a Smart Phone. (h/t sandsurf & fnyc)

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Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis adapted a small ultrasound prove to interface with a Microsoft Windows mobile smartphone. Although the screen may be too small to diagnose anything properly, it is thought the concept will be used to scan a [...]

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via Medscape Radiology heartwire Whole-Heart Coronary Magnetic Resonance Angiography Advance Shows Promise [Free registration required. Emphases mine].

A study comparing the diagnostic value of contrast-enhanced whole-heart coronary magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) with conventional X-ray angiography has shown that MRA can accurately detect coronary artery stenosis with high sensitivity and moderate specificity. The findings, published online April [...]

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via Medscape & ACR CT Colonography May Yet Challenge Colonoscopy.

Although CT colonography (CTC) is a promising technique that has good sensitivity for detecting larger colon polyps and is less invasive than colonoscopy, it does not appear to be cost effective for average-risk colorectal cancer screening. However, used in the right circumstances, the CT technique could [...]

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CT scan of the Brain was done for a 60-year-old man with TIA.
Plain CT (non-contrast enhanced or NECT) images showed a well-defined cyst in the right cerebellar hemisphere with thin, imperceptible capsule and a small mural nodule medially in the inferior pole that was isoattenuating to the adjacent normal cerebellar cortex (second image below). No [...]

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via medicexchange.com A ‘broader’ look at cardiac CTA images often finds diseases/disorders beyond the heart | Cardiac Vasculature. [emphases mine]

Performing cardiac CTA after coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) can reveal unsuspected and potentially significant findings beyond the heart, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, located [...]

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Just some cool pictures of a very common condition. For a change.
Ultrasonogram done for a patient with colicky right sided abdominal pain showed right hydroureteronephrosis secondary to a calculus impacted at the ueretero-vesical junction.
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Transverse ultrasonogram of the urinary bladder with Power Doppler shows an [...]

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