Lung Imaging

News and new technology innovations concerning how imaging technology for the lungs. This includes computed tomography (CT), X-ray and ultrasound imaging of the lungs to diagnose and monitor treatment for lung cancer, COPD, pulmonary embolism (PE), pneumonia, tuberculosis and COVID-19 can be found on this channel.

Summary of the pilot study and preliminary PET imaging findings. Image created by R Wetherill, Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

News | PET Imaging

PET Imaging Shows Greater Lung Inflammation in e-cigarette Users than Cigarette Smokers

January 31, 2023 — Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) users have greater lung inflammation than cigarette smokers and ...

January 31, 2023

Summary of imaging findings from the SEER-Medicare linked database for patients with non-small cell lung cancer prior to receiving subsequent radiation therapy. Image created by Emily Sterbis, MD, Interventional Radiology Resident at the University of Colorado

News | Lung Imaging

Nearly Half of Medicare Patients with Non-small Cell Lung Cancer not Staged According to National Guidelines

January 23, 2023 — A study published in the January issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine reports that approximately ...

January 23, 2023

The close of 2022 ended with a very productive and encouraging Radiological Society of North America’s (RSNA) 108th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting (RSNA 2022).

Blog | RSNA

Ring in the New Year with Change

The close of 2022 ended with a very productive and encouraging Radiological Society of North America’s (RSNA) 108th ...

January 17, 2023

How the imaging community is working to drive awareness and increase access to life-saving screening

Feature | Lung Imaging | By Christine Book

Special Report on Lung Cancer and Screening Initiatives, Part III

In this third in the three-part Special Report, the ITN editorial team offers the most current information on reported ...

January 17, 2023

This month, our One on One ... column features Kim L. Sandler, MD, who addresses the topic of lung cancer screening. The full video interview with Sandler can be found at www.itnonline.com/videos.

Feature | Lung Imaging | By Christine Book

One on One ... With Kim L. Sandler, MD

New for 2023, in each issue, Imaging Technology News (ITN) will profile a leader in radiology to share insight, updates ...

January 16, 2023

62-year-old man with history of oropharyngeal cancer, treated by chemoradiation therapy. Contrast-enhanced multiphase DECT of chest performed for surgical planning. Axial image from iodine concentration map, reconstructed from equilibrium-phase acquisition, shows thin ringlike peripheral high iodine concentration, involving nodule’s entire circumference. Nodule underwent resection, revealing oropharyngeal carcinoma metastasis. Case represents true-positive example of using ringlike peripheral high iodine co

News | Lung Imaging

DECT Iodine Concentration Differentiates Lung Cancer from Pulmonary Metastases

January 11, 2023 — According to an accepted manuscript published in ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) ...

January 11, 2023

Videos | Lung Imaging

VIDEO: Discussion on What's New and What's Next in Lung Screening with Kim Sandler, MD

Kim Sandler, MD, Co-Chair of the American College of Radiology (ACR) Lung Cancer Screening Steering Committee, and ...

January 03, 2023

News | Lung Imaging

Study Suggests AI can Predict Risk of Lung Cancer Returning Using CT Scans

December 26, 2022 — Artificial intelligence (AI) could help identify the risk of cancer returning in non-small cell lung ...

December 26, 2022

In just two years, the Medical Imaging and Data Research Center (MIDRC) has released over 100,000 imaging studies to the public to advance the development of machine learning/artificial intelligence applications for COVID-19 diagnosis and prediction.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

MIDRC Publishes Over 100k Imaging Studies

December 23, 2022 — In just two years, the Medical Imaging and Data Research Center (MIDRC) has released over 100,000 ...

December 23, 2022

An imaging agent just approved by the FDA will allow surgeons to identify additional cancerous lesions, which otherwise would have been left behind, in up to 24% more patients during non-small cell lung cancer surgery. Philip Low, Purdue University’s Presidential Scholar for Drug Discovery and the Ralph C. Corley Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, is an inventor of the foundational intellectual property upon which the drug is based.

News | Lung Imaging

Imaging Agent Illuminates Lung Cancer Tumors

December 21, 2022 — Surgery, especially surgery to remove cancerous tumors, relies on a range of tools and techniques as ...

December 21, 2022

61-year-old male, post lung transplant, who underwent photon-counting detector CT of chest in ultra-high-resolution mode. Reconstructions were performed at 0.2-mm slice thickness with BI56 kernel (A), BI60 kernel (B), and BI64 kernel (C); at 0.4-mm slice thickness with BI56 kernel (D), BI60 kernel (E), and BI64 kernel (F); and at 1.0-mm slice thickness with BI56 kernel (G), BI60 kernel (H), and BI64 kernel (I). Clinical-reference reconstruction (BI64 kernel at 1.0-mm slice thickness) is shown with red outli

News | Computed Tomography (CT)

Kernel and Slice in Ultra-High-Resolution Photon-Counting Detector CT

December 15, 2022 — An accepted manuscript published in ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) guides ...

December 15, 2022

Prof. Dr. Franz Pfeiffer (back, left), Professor for Biomedical Physics, and his team have developed a prototype of a clinical CT scanner which combines dark-field and conventional X-ray technology (back right: Dr. Thomas Koehler, front left: Clemens Schmid, front right: Manuel Viermetz).

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

New X-ray Technology Can Improve COVID-19 Diagnosis

December 7, 2022 — A research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has, for the first time, produced dark ...

December 07, 2022

Three-dimensional segmentation of ginger-root shaped necrotic lesions (yellow) and surrounding vasculature (red) within a sample of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected human lung tissue (transparent surface). Africa Health Research Institute

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Tuberculosis and COVID-19 Lung lesions Revealed by High-Resolution Three-Dimensional Imaging

December 7, 2022 — Gross anatomy reveals three-dimensional shapes of pathology at a large scale. Histology, in contrast ...

December 07, 2022

Ultra-high-resolution photon-counting CT reveals bronchiolectasis: Axial CT lung images without contrast agent of a 70-year-old woman with persistent fatigue 401 days after COVID-19: 1.0mm image obtained with energy-integrating detector (EID) CT (A), and 1.0mm (B), 0.4mm (C) and 0.2mm (D) images obtained with photon-counting detector CT at the same level. Bronchiolectasis (white arrow) was not detected by EID CT but was found by PCD-CT. Ground-glass opacity detected in EID CT images (black arrows in A) was

News | Computed Tomography (CT)

Photon-Counting CT Shows More Post-COVID-19 Lung Damage

December 2, 2022 — New CT technology outperforms conventional CT in detecting subtle damage in the lungs of patients ...

December 02, 2022

Published online November 8 in the journal, Radiology, the study enabled the visualization of pulmonary hemodynamics and perfusion with high sensitivity, specificity and diagnostic accuracy, and without the use of contrast media

News | Digital Radiography (DR)

Study Reports Similar Efficacy of Dynamic Digital Radiography of the Chest with Lung Ventilation Perfusion for Detection of Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension

November 28, 2022 — Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc., a leader in medical diagnostic imaging and healthcare ...

November 28, 2022

ClariPi Inc. has announced that its ClariCT.AI software will be released on Siemens Healthineers’ Digital Marketplace.The company will be participating in the AI Showcase during RSNA 2022.

News | RSNA

ClariPi Joins Siemens Healthineers Digital Marketplace

Nov. 27, 2022 — ClariPi Inc. has announced that its ClariCT.AI software will be released on Siemens Healthineers’ ...

November 27, 2022

News | Artificial Intelligence

Oxipit Introduces Quality Assurance for MSK, MG, and CT Modalities

November 25, 2022 — AI medical imaging company Oxipit expanded its Quality product suite with quality assurance support ...

November 25, 2022

Figure 2. Axial CT images of pulmonary nodules. (A) Malignant nodule. (B) Benign nodule.

News | Lung Imaging

Lung Cancer Screening Dramatically Increases Long-term Survival Rate

November 22, 2022 — Diagnosing early-stage lung cancer with low-dose CT screening drastically improves the long-term ...

November 22, 2022

Attachments: Lung scans depicting healthy/control subjects and lungs of a Veteran with biopsy confirmed constrictive bronchiolitis as processed by 4DMedical XV LVAS Software. Single slices of 4DMedical XV scans from the Vanderbilt ‘burn pit’ clinical trial (left) from a healthy/control subject and (right) from a veteran exposed to burn pits with biopsy confirmed constrictive bronchiolitis. The image on the left visualizes principally as green representing average levels of ventilation, while the image on th

News | Lung Imaging

4D Medical Reveals First of its Kind New Lung Scanner at RSNA

November 21, 2022 — Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2022 meeting attendees are invited to visit 4DMedical’s ...

November 21, 2022

American Lung Association's 2022 “State of Lung Cancer” report examines key indicators throughout the U.S. including new cases, survival, early diagnosis, surgical treatment, lack of treatment and screening rates.

News | Lung Imaging

American Lung Association Reinforces Life-saving Potential of Screening in 2022 “State of Lung Cancer” Report

November 15, 2022 — A newly-released American Lung Association (ALA) report highlights how the toll of lung cancer ...

November 15, 2022