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Tag Archives: Applied Radiology
Data Linkage and Extract Service: Hospital Episode Statistics and the Diagnostic Imaging Dataset (HSCIC)
Summary Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) contains roughly 1 billion records on patients attending accident and emergency units, whether admitted for treatment or attending outpatient clinics. The Diagnostic Imaging Dataset (DID) is a collection of data from NHS-funded diagnostic imaging tests … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, For Doctors (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), National, NHS, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Administrative Data Sets, Admitted Patient Care Commissioning Data Sets, Aggregate Data, Anonymised Patient Medical Records, Applied Radiology, Bespoke Data Linkages, Bespoke Record-Level Extracts, Brain Imaging, Cancer Data from the Office for National Statistics, Central Return Data Sets, Clinical Data Sets, Clinical Data Standards Network (CDSN), Clinical Data Standards Network Group, Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), Commissioning Data Sets, Data Linkage and Extract Service, Data Quality, Data Standards, De-Identified Data, Derivation of Patient Classification Code, Diagnostic Imaging, Diagnostic Imaging Dataset (DID), DID, Electronic Database of NHS Patient Demographics, English NHS Observational Data and Interventional Research Service, Functional Brain Imaging, General Practice Extraction Service (GPES), Health and Social Care Information Centre, Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), HES, Hospital Episode Statistics, Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Hospital Episode Statistics Linked to Mental Health Minimum Data Set, Hospital Episode Statistics Linked to Mortality Data from the Office for National Statistics, Hospital Episode Statistics Linked to Patient Reported Outcome Measures, Hospital Episode Statistics Linked to the Diagnostic Imaging Dataset, Infostandards.org Website (HSCIC), Linkage of HES to DID, Linked Data Sets, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Medication Messages (UK SNOMED CT), Mental Health Minimum Data Set (MHMDS), Mortality Data from the Office for National Statistics, MRI, MRI Scans, Neuroimaging, NHS Data Model and Dictionary, NHS Data Model and Dictionary Service (NHS DMDS), NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d), NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre, NHS Registration Data from the Personal Demographics Service, ONS Mortality Data, Open Data, Patient Classification Code, Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), Patient Status and Tracking Data, Payment by Results (PbR), Personal Confidential Data, Personal Demographics Service (PDS), Primary Care Data, Professional Records Standards in Health and Social Care, PROMS, Pseudonymisation, Pseudonymised Data, Radiological Information Systems, Records Standards in Health and Social Care, Secondary Uses Service (SUS PbR), Secondary Uses Service Payment by Results, SUS Payment by Results (PbR), Transparency and Open Data
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SPECT Imaging of Suspected Dementia with Lewy Bodies (BMJ Open)
Summary This article reviews progress in the use of Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) for the diagnosis of Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB). The authors conclude that systematic visual analyses of ((123)I)FP-CIT SPECT images may be used to detect people … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Diagnosis, For Doctors (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), International, Quick Insights, Systematic Reviews
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Tagged (123)I-FP-CIT: (123)I-2beta-carbometoxy-3beta-(4-iodophenyl)-N-(3-fluoropropyl) nortropane, (123I)FP-CIT SPECT, Acting Out Dreams: Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Sleep Behaviour Disorder, Aβ Deposition in DLB, Amyloid Beta Protein, Applied Radiology, BMJ Open, Brain Imaging, Centre for Age-Related Medicine: Stavanger University Hospital, Clinically Uncertain Parkinsonism Syndrome Study, Clinician Assessment of Cognitive Fluctuations (COGA), Computed Tomography (CT), Dementia in Parkinson's Disease, Dementia with Lewy Bodies, Dementia With Lewy Bodies (DLB), Dementia with Lewy Bodies Symptoms, DemWest Database, DemWest Study, Department of Psychiatry: Stavanger University Hospital, Diagnosis and Screening: Dementia with Lewy Bodies, Differential Diagnosis, Disease Predictors, DLB, DLB: Dementia with Lewy Bodies, Dream Enactment Behaviour During Sleep, Dreaming in Dementia: REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder and Synucleinopathy, Early Diagnosis, Early Differential Diagnosis, Fluctuating Cognition, Fluctuation Assessment Scales, FP-CIT Binding to DAT and SERT, Lewy Body Degeneration, Lewy Body Dementia, Lewy-Related Pathologies (LRP), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Mayo Fluctuation Questionnaire, Mayo Sleep Questionnaire, Montreal General Hospital, MRI, MRI Brain Imaging, MRI Scans, Neurodegeneration, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Norway, Parkinson’s Disease Dementia, Parkinsonism, PDD: Parkinson's Disease with Dementia, Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Sleep, Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Sleep Behaviour Disorder, Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Sleep Disorder, Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behaviour Disorder (RBD), RBD: Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behaviour Disorder, REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder, S−CF+ Cases, Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT), Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT or Less Commonly SPET), Sleep Disorders, SPECT, Stavanger University Hospital; Norway, Synucleinopathy, Visual Hallucinations, Visually Rated ((123)I)FP-CIT SPECT
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PET in Dementia Diagnosis and Treatment (Applied Radiology)
[A brief reference to this item appears in: Dementia and Elderly Care: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 3 Issue 3, October 2012]. Summary The role of PET in the diagnosis and management of dementia is expected to increase in … Continue reading →
Posted in Diagnosis, For Doctors (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), International, Parkinson's Disease, Quick Insights, Universal Interest
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Tagged Applied Radiology, Computed Tomography (CT), Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease, Dementia With Lewy Bodies (DLB), DLB, DLB: Dementia with Lewy Bodies, F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), FDG-PET, FDG-PET Imaging, Frontotemporal Dementia, Frontotemporal Lobar Dementia (FTD), Functional Brain Imaging, Huntington’s Disease, Infectious Etiology (HIV, Lyme Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Neuroimaging of Dementia, Neuroimaging Tools, Neuronuclear Imaging, Perfusion Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT), PET, Pick’s Disease (Frontotemporal Dementia), Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Radiopharmaceuticals, Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT), SPECT, Syphilis), Vascular Dementia, Vascular Dementia (Binswanger’s), Vascular Dementia (Muti-Infarct), Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome, Wilson’s Disease
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