Dear AuntMinnie member,
Our reporting on the annual meeting of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) generated the most traffic on both AuntMinnie.com and our sister site AuntMinnieEurope.com last week. Readers were particularly interested in our articles on the performance of a next-generation total-body PET scanner and a talk by Thomas Hope, MD, on what’s next for fibroblast activation protein (FAP)-targeted radioligand therapy.
You can check out all of our coverage of the Vienna congress in our special EANM 2026 section.
On the imaging side of theranostics, FAP inhibitor (FAPI) PET/CT was recently found to detect more hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) lesions than FDG-PET, suggesting that FAPI-PET offers additional value for staging and treatment planning.
After a short hiatus, our Women’s Imaging MinnieCast is back. In Episode 19, Associate Editor Amerigo Allegretto spoke to Eun Langman, MD, and Vilert Loving, MD, of Duke University about deploying AI for breast imaging. Want more MinnieCasts? Stop by the AuntMinnie Podcast Network for our full catalog.
In other news, researchers from Stanford University reported that MRI findings in patients with scapular pain overlap with results that occur in the general aging population, indicating that MRI findings in these patients should be cautiously interpreted. And the Kaiser score was found to be highly effective in differentiating benign from malignant breast lesions initially categorized as BI-RADS 0 or 4 on conventional imaging.
Please see below for our full list of top stories of the week.
Erik L. Ridley
Editor in Chief
AuntMinnie.com
1. EANM: Next-generation PET scanner cuts imaging time to one minute
2. EANM: Thomas Hope on what’s next in FAP-targeted theranostics
3. FAPI-PET detects more HCC lesions than FDG-PET
4. Women’s Imaging MinnieCast, Episode 19: Considerations for AI in breast imaging
5. MRI shows features of scapular pain in patients
6. Kaiser score outperforms MRI BI-RADS for inconclusive breast findings
7. LLMs mostly avoid unnecessary care in Choosing Wisely tests
8. PCCT improves image quality when scanning patients with obesity
9. MRI shows no ties between COVID, future heart inflammation
10. VR boosts accuracy, confidence for evaluating abdominal neuroblastoma
