AuntMinnie.com MRI Insider

Dear AuntMinnie member,

We've been covering the American Society for Radiation Oncology's (ASTRO) annual meeting being held in San Francisco this week, and for this edition of our MRI Insider we're highlighting research that showed how daily adaptive recontouring during MRI-guided radiation therapy improves prostate treatment outcomes -- particularly "urinary bother," according to presenter William Hall, MD, of the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Click here to learn more about Hall's and colleagues' findings.

When you've read that story, check out our articles on a new brain MRI technique that could help identify Alzheimer's; work that reported on how white-matter microstructure influences the brain's glymphatic system; and a study that outlined the use of cardiac MRI for predicting future major adverse cardiovascular events after heart attack. We also invite you to take a look at a contributed column that described four ways AI could modernize MRI -- and thus address some of radiology's most challenging issues.

Since our last MRI Insider, we highlighted an Italian radiologic technologist's creation of booklets for children to help them prepare for MRI exams and research that suggested that an MRI technique called quantitative susceptibility mapping that could help predict the onset of mild cognitive impairment and cognitive decline, even in as-yet unimpaired older adults.

Finally, don't miss these stories that illuminate some of the latest news in the modality:

• Breast calcifications affect MRI cancer treatment response prediction
• Node-RADS evaluates breast cancers on MRI exams
• DTI-MRI shows childhood neglect's effect on the brain's white matter

Keep up with research on MRI's many benefits by regular visits to our MRI content area, and as always, if you have MRI topics you'd like us to consider, please contact me.

Kate Madden Yee
Senior Editor
AuntMinnie.com