Category: Imaging & mpMRI

Word has gotten out to prostate cancer patients about MRI-guided focal treatments. When focal laser ablation (FLA) could be done under in-bore MRI guidance, the real time high resolution images plus thermometric monitoring made FLA incredibly accurate and precise. Now there is another type of treatment guidance called MRI-ultrasound fusion... keep reading

“I can’t afford it.” Unless you’re an impulse buyer, no matter how attractive a purchase looks you’re going to take the cost into account. Will your budget accommodate your desire? Of course, there strategies that can bring you closer to getting what you want. For example, you can: Shop around and compare prices for the keep reading

“Cancer screening should be a regular part of your life,” states the American Cancer Society (ACS). When it comes to screening tests (e.g., Pap smear, mammogram, colonoscopy, PSA blood tests, etc.) there are two kinds of people: those who wholeheartedly embrace ACS’s advice, and those who don’t. Those in the first group believe that not keep reading

When you think of Sweden—which you probably don’t do often—what springs to mind? Maybe it’s tall blonde people, IKEA, or those cute painted horse carvings. Perhaps you picture Hollywood legends Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman, or you recall the cocktail party where the hostess served tasty Swedish meatballs. If you’re a music lover, you can keep reading

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) has boomed with countless applications in virtually every field of technology and learning, medicine is also benefitting. A branch of AI called Deep Learning (DL) is modeled after the layers of neural networks involved in the brain’s learning processes. By layering algorithms, to process data, DL mimics how the brain thinks, keep reading

If you’ve been diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer, chances are your doctor has said you may be a candidate for Active Surveillance (AS). The National Cancer Institute defines AS as a cancer management strategy to avoid or delay treatments with side effect risks. It “involves closely watching a patient’s condition but not giving any treatment keep reading

Once called the sport of kings, thoroughbred racing is not as popular as it once was. Still, every once in a while, a racing event comes along that sparks public interest and imagination. Secretariat, the 1973 winner of racing’s Triple Crown, was so famous that year that he made the June 11 cover of Time. keep reading

If your PSA is unusually high or your digital rectal exam finds an abnormality, how do you know if it’s prostate cancer? Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is now the universally preferred noninvasive method for identifying prostate cancer (PCa) prior to having a biopsy. In the years leading up to this, researchers worked toward agreement over keep reading

Who doesn’t love to save millions of dollars? Multiparametric MRI offers huge savings in healthcare spending by ruling out need for a prostate biopsy—not to mention saving thousands of men the anxiety of being rushed into something unpleasant that may be totally unnecessary. keep reading

With an ever-increasing array of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in radiology, it’s a boom time for turning MRI into a powerhouse. In particular, both machine learning (ML) and deep learning (a particular type of ML) enable MRI of the prostate to branch out in new radiological directions. Out with the old, in with the new. keep reading