Catch up on key neuroradiology news and research from the past month, including recently published studies involving white matter hyperintensity findings on brain MRI, MRI-enhanced amyloid PET and the newly FDA-approved PET agent floretyrosine F18 for glioma imaging.
Given the increasing prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease and a staggering number of people with dementia who are undiagnosed, this author discusses five essential keys for radiologists and their colleagues to facilitate earlier detection, precision care treatment and monitoring to help ensure timely care and intervention.
For patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC), there was a 40 percent improvement in cognitive failure-free survival (CFFS) with brain MRI alone in comparison to the combination of brain MRI and prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI), according to research presented at the ASTRO conference.