MRI

ISMRM annual meeting in Cape Town to highlight South African 'Ubuntu'

By Kate Madden Yee

A term helps define ISMRM's goal of building stronger, more interconnected community.

May 6, 2026

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MRI reveals how hidden muscle fat increases risk to heart, metabolism

By Kate Madden Yee

The results suggest that MRI exams could "augment traditional risk factor screening," researchers noted.

May 5, 2026

Whole body MRI, deep-learning can 'map' distribution of fat and muscle

By Kate Madden Yee

The map shows that the quality and amount of skeletal muscle, not just visceral fat, are strong predictors of disease.

May 5, 2026

Overview of the study design. (A) The fully automated deep learning framework was developed to estimate body composition (BC) (defined as subcutaneous adipose tissue [SAT] in liters; visceral adipose tissue [VAT] in liters; skeletal muscle [SM] in liters; SM fat fraction [SMFF] as a percentage; and intramuscular adipose tissue [IMAT] in deciliters) from MRI. The fully automated framework comprised one model (model 1) to quantify different BC measures (SAT, VAT, SM, SMFF, and IMAT) as three-dimensional (3D) measures from whole-body MRI scans. The second model (model 2) was trained to identify standardized anatomic landmarks along the craniocaudal body axis (z coordinate field), which allowed for subdividing the whole-body measures into different subregions typically examined on clinical routine MRI scans (chest, abdomen, and pelvis). (B) BC was quantified from whole-body MRI in over 66,000 individuals from two large population-based cohort studies, the UK Biobank (UKB) (36,317 individuals) and the German National Cohort (NAKO) (30,291 individuals). Bar graphs show age distribution by sex and cohort. BMI = body mass index. (C) After the performance assessment of the fully automated framework, the change in BC measures, distributions, and profiles across age decades were investigated. Age-, sex-, and height-adjusted body composition reference curves were calculated and made publicly available in a web-based z-score calculator (https://circ-ml.github.io).

Podcast: Twisted litigation of fatal MRI accident at open MRI center

Legal battles among the parties may just be heating up.

May 5, 2026

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Esaote's I-Genius open MRI moves closer to U.S. market

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

I-Genius is pending U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance.

May 4, 2026

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Hyperfine installs first Swoop system in India

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The installation marks the first bedside MRI deployment for routine clinical use in India.

April 29, 2026

MRI reveals occurrence of placental contractions

By Kate Madden Yee

Characterizing these contractions could help clinicians better understand the placenta's function.

April 29, 2026

Uterine and placental changes during an example placental contraction. The top row shows axial MRI images at selected times points before, during and after a placental contraction (indicated by vertical lines on the graph below) with segmentations shown below. Changes in placental and non-placental volumes, wall areas and placental R2* (all measured across the whole volume of the uterus, not just the single slice shown) are plotted underneath. The legend indicates the colors used for the lines in the plots and the regions indicated in the segmentation.

Functional MRI predicts CTD-ILD progression better than standard tests

By Kate Madden Yee

The technique performs better for this indication than do standard clinical tools such as chest CT and pulmonary function tests.

April 28, 2026

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SimonMed deploys AIRS Medical AI across its national MRI network

By Kate Madden Yee

SwiftMR uses AI to improve image quality and reduce scan times without requiring additional hardware.

April 27, 2026

Stanford Medicine receives $3.9M ARPA-H MR lymphangiography grant

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Stanford will collaborate with radiologists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Imperial College London.

April 24, 2026

Andreas Loening, MD, PhD

Imricor launches NorthStar cardiac MRI mapping system

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

NorthStar Mapping System is a cardiac mapping and guidance platform designed for use with real-time MRI.

April 23, 2026

A screenshot of Imricor's Northstar Mapping System.

LI-RADS CT/MRI liver malignancy features show high interreader agreement

By Kate Madden Yee

The results could have implications for how LI-RADS CT/MRI (v2018) should be applied in clinical liver imaging practice.

April 23, 2026

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