Shritik Devkota

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6/6 🎯 SRCEUS for Crohn:
✅ Micrometer-scale visualization of bowel microvasculature
✅ Outperforms conventional CEUS
✅ Potential noninvasive imaging biomarker for disease activity + treatment monitoring.
📖 https://t.co/yEoKDLXiBD
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[Shritik Devkota @DevkotaShritik]

1/6
🧵Can ultrasound visualize bowel microvasculature beyond conventional imaging?New @Radiology_RSNA study evaluated super-resolution contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (SRCEUS) for Crohn disease activity vs conventional CEUS.
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[Shritik Devkota @DevkotaShritik]

5/6 🚀Key Results
SRCEUS demonstrated excellent diagnostic performance:
✅AUC: 0.92
✅ Sensitivity: 94.1%
✅ Specificity: 95.0%

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4/6 📊Key Results
Participants with moderate/severe disease had significantly higher SRCEUS vascular biomarkers, including:
🩸Maximum density
🩸 Mean density
🩸 Mean velocity
🩸 Vascular density ratio
🩸 Fractal dimension
(All P ≤ .01)

[Shritik Devkota @DevkotaShritik]

3/6 📋Methods
The authors prospectively enrolled 54 participants with terminal ileal or colonic Crohn disease.
Participants underwent B-mode US, Color Doppler, CEUS, and SRCEUS; disease activity classified using the Simple Endoscopic Score for Crohn's Disease (SES-CD).

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2/6 🩺Why it matters?
Assessing Crohn disease activity is essential for treatment decisions and monitoring.
Conventional CEUS measures bowel perfusion but has limited spatial resolution. SRCEUS visualizes microvascular architecture at the micrometer scale.

[Shritik Devkota @DevkotaShritik]

💡AI-assisted pulmonary nodule assessment reduced chest CT reporting time by 14.6%.
Read more: https://t.co/fYg2MEf9xW
#RIAM #RadInTraining
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[Radiology @radiology_rsna]

In treatment-naive HCC, radiation segmentectomy before liver transplant achieved high rates of complete pathologic necrosis. https://t.co/mqkcht12Fj @ZTBerman @BeauToskichMD @MayoClinicFL_IR @UCSD_IR @DieHCCDie @cyndlg @bayouteazy @shamaryoungmd

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🧲 Pelvic MRI can make or break perianal fistula care.

This review highlights how MRI maps disease, guides surgery, tracks healing, and helps spot mimics and rare complications.
https://t.co/meLmjonSfG

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⚠️ Low noise doesn’t always mean enough dose in CT.

With iterative and AI reconstruction, images can look reassuring even as low-contrast lesions disappear. This article argues for task-based dose optimization with detectability index d′.
https://t.co/4KwJYWneQU

[Radiology @radiology_rsna]

Innovations in data acquisition and reconstruction aim to enhance image quality and reproducibility of liver diffusion-weighted imaging, promising improved clinical protocols and expanded applications in the near future. https://t.co/jrW6z2y7mn https://t.co/fQlZTdvOM5

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🧲 Liver MRI, close up.

Diffusion‑weighted imaging (DWI) detects microscopic water motion to flag cancer, characterize lesions, and act as a quantitative biomarker.

This review covers state‑of‑the‑art liver DWI, current challenges, and what’s next.
https://t.co/IcCpBQVjtv

[Radiology @radiology_rsna]

Hyperrealistic rendering of CT images demonstrates an interesting and rare case of foregut duplication cyst associated with a fish-tail pancreas. Take a look in this week's Images in Radiology ⬇️ https://t.co/fDztdHPCAc

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This week in #Radiology

🦵MRI accuracy for meniscus tears
🧬Early ¹⁷⁷Lu‑PSMA SPECT/CT & survival in mCRPC
🫁PREFUL MRI predicting CTD‑ILD progression
🫀CT insights into poststenotic dilatation in renal artery stenosis

Fresh imaging that informs care👇
https://t.co/d3wBuiQbnq

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🫁📈 Can MRI predict CTD‑ILD progression?

PREFUL MRI shows ventilation–perfusion changes linked to 1‑year progression. Higher perfusion defects and V/Q mismatch flagged at‑risk patients (AUC 0.87).

A promising, radiation‑free marker for ILD management.
https://t.co/U9rjDtkfYC

[RadioGraphics @RadioGraphics]

Incidental findings: common, often benign--but not always. This review updates ACR guidance, highlights gaps, and challenges prior recommendations across organs. A must-read to refine management and avoid unnecessary workup. @UCDRadiology https://t.co/SFsxFZA1LA

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🦵 How good is knee MRI for meniscus tears?

Meta-analysis (75 studies, 8,500+ pts) vs arthroscopy:
✅ Medial: sensitivity ~91%
✅ Lateral: specificity ~94%
🧠 Best reads: signal + distortion

Take-home: MRI stays strong, but “tear” definitions matter.
https://t.co/PBWpRmqpMZ

[RSNA @RSNA]

Remote radiology isn’t a trend anymore—it’s a global operating model. From Australasian market growth to U.S. telework momentum, Canada’s remote-supervised mammography and Singapore’s access-first approach, this story explores how teleradiology is expanding capacity and subspecialty access, while surfacing real concerns about privacy, cross-border practice, credentialing and patient trust.
Read more: https://t.co/tprDfY7fVO

#RemoteRadiology #Teleradiology @RANZCRcollege

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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) diagnosis relies heavily on well‑timed arterial phase MRI, yet single arterial phase scans often miss the optimal late arterial phase, especially with hepatobiliary contrast agents that are prone to motion artifacts and narrow timing windows.

In a study recently published in Radiology: Imaging Cancer researchers led by Kai Liu, BS, Zhongshan Hospital at Fudan University in Shanghai, compared conventional single phase imaging with an ultrafast, deep learning-based multiphase MRI technique, which can rapidly acquire six high-resolution arterial phases in a single breath hold.

Read the full article: https://t.co/T8Y90fW7yU
#ImagingCancer #MRI @RadIC_Editor

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Advanced imaging has a carbon cost.

Suite‑level energy analysis shows MRI demand is driven by main power, while CT and PET/CT are dominated by HVAC highlighting where smarter efficiency efforts can make the biggest impact. ♻️⚡
https://t.co/5rtyEDCQAR