Dear AuntMinnie Member,
Up to 10% of women of reproductive age are affected by endometriosis -- and the condition's symptoms can have a significant negative impact on a woman's life. Researchers have found that using deep learning with MRI boosts the modality's ability to identify the condition -- enhancing the performance of radiologists. Click here for more details.
Once you've read that article, check out more of our coverage of MRI's many contributions to patient care, including a study that shows how an MRI-based nomogram predicts breast cancer treatment response, another that demonstrates how timely patient feedback leads to improvements in MRI exam experience, and a third that demonstrates how ultrafast breast MRI can determine malignant from benign features.
We've also reported on a pair of studies regarding Alzheimer's disease. It turns out that having a father with Alzheimer's increases one's risk, and that an MRI technique called deuterium metabolic imaging aligns with F-18 FDG-PET -- a cornerstone of dementia diagnostics.
Don't miss our story on China's retaliation against new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration by limiting export of rare earth elements -- including gadolinium, which is used in MRI contrast agents. Also be sure to read our articles on the American College of Radiology's updated manual on MRI safety, how resting state functional MRI reveals changes in the brain caused by repetitive blast exposure, and the benefits of using MRI radiomics to distinguish low- from high-risk cases of ductal carcinoma in situ.
It's a pleasure to bring our readers up-to-date coverage of MRI's many applications via our MRI content area. Check it out regularly, and as always, if you have MRI topics you'd like us to consider, please contact me.
Kate Madden Yee
Senior Editor
AuntMinnie.com
![Examples of ultrasound findings and techniques. (A) Images in a 39-year-old male patient with a mass in the left thigh. The mass is heterogeneous on the B-mode US image (compared with the patient in D) and showed increased microvascularity (superb microvascular imaging [SMI]) and shear-wave elastography (SWE) values. Undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma was diagnosed at biopsy (with pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma in surgical specimen). (B) Images in an 18-year-old male patient with a mass in the left leg. The mass is hypoechoic on the B-mode image, with no other findings suggestive of malignancy. The lesion is in contact with the cortex of the tibia, which is slightly irregular. CT revealed a doubtful anteromedial tibial erosion. The microvascular study demonstrated high vascularization, suggestive of malignancy. Periosteal Ewing sarcoma was diagnosed with both histologic and immunohistochemical confirmation. (C) Images in a 69-year-old female patient with a lump growing on the outside of the left leg. Multiple SWE examinations were performed (please note the high values obtained in the measurements, whereas the color map highlights the stiffness relative to adjacent tissues). SMI showed areas of increased vascularization to target for sampling. Undifferentiated spindle cell sarcoma was diagnosed at biopsy, with residual leiomyosarcoma in the surgical specimen after neoadjuvant therapy. (D) Images in a 56-year-old female patient with a mass in the right thigh. The mass is heterogeneous at both B-mode ultrasound (similar to patient A) and MRI (coronal T2-weighted spectral attenuated inversion recovery [SPAIR]; T1-weighted pre-contrast and postcontrast imaging), which even shows uptake after the administration of paramagnetic contrast material, which is traditionally suggestive of malignancy. Low values at SMI and elastography are suggestive of benignity. Spindle cell lipoma was diagnosed at biopsy, with atypical spindle cell lipomatous tumor in the surgical specimen.](https://img.auntminnie.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/08/images-radiol250278fig2.APCFLSvX6p.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)