A giant tabular iceberg named A68A, which was adrift in the South Atlantic was calved from Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017 and reportedly by April 2021, it vanished.
Now a new report sheds light upon the melting speed of the giant iceberg as it has been revealed that it was dumping more than 152 billion tonnes of fresh water into the ocean every single day when the melting was at its peak.
Alice Marzocchi, NOC
It is a relief when we finally see the iceberg emerging, first as a line on the ship’s radar and then as a wall of ice emerging from a foggy horizon, stretching further than we can see.
This is the remains of iceberg A-68, the third largest iceberg ever recorded, which broke away from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf in 2017. After drifting northwards, A-68 was on a collision course with the island of South Georgia in December 2020 before being … Continue reading Subscribe now for unlimited access
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In a direct comparison with gallium-68 (Ga-68) prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET/CT, MR imaging with a ferumoxtran-10 nanoparticle contrast agent (nano-MRI) identified significantly more suspected serious lymph nodes, as well as nodes that were significantly smaller. At the same time, the two approaches were fairly complementary, as they both discovered some lymph nodes the other modality missed. Although there is no reference standard in this study, the main results mentioned above provide insight into the complementary performance of both modalities by identifying aspects where they agree and disagree, wrote the authors led by Dr. Melline Schilham from Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Such results allow the definition of future areas of research that need to be addressed in order to define the optimal imaging strategy for prostate cancer patients.