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Glowing anatomical illustration of human heart with blood vessels on blue background

High CAC scores nearly doubles 30-year mortality in young adults

October 23, 2026

MinnieCast Women's Imaging podcast episode featuring Drs. Eun Langman and Vilert Loving

Women's Imaging MinnieCast, Episode 19: Considerations for AI in breast imaging

October 23, 2026

FREE webinar: find your imaging capacity

FREE webinar: find your imaging capacity

October 22, 2026

Comparison of healthy pink lung with bronchial vessels versus diseased gray lung showing smoking damage and tar accumulation

Pilot project triples LDCT ordering among Hispanic patients

October 22, 2026

High CAC scores nearly doubles 30-year mortality in young adults

Among 12,847 participants, 1,703 (13.3%) had CAC scores above the 90th percentile.

October 23, 2026

Glowing anatomical illustration of human heart with blood vessels on blue background

Women's Imaging MinnieCast, Episode 19: Considerations for AI in breast imaging

By Amerigo Allegretto

Experts from Duke University discuss considerations for breast imaging departments to make before implementing AI into practice.

October 23, 2026

MinnieCast Women's Imaging podcast episode featuring Drs. Eun Langman and Vilert Loving

RALE score accurately identifies ARDS on chest x-rays

The RALE score is a semi-quantitative system developed in 2018 to quantify the extent and density of pulmonary edema on chest x-rays.

October 22, 2026

Frontal chest X-ray showing bilateral lungs, ribcage, and thoracic spine with normal anatomical structures

Pilot project triples LDCT ordering among Hispanic patients

Hispanic patients face persistent barriers to lung cancer screening, and culturally adapted multilevel interventions remain an underexplored approach.

October 22, 2026

Comparison of healthy pink lung with bronchial vessels versus diseased gray lung showing smoking damage and tar accumulation

fMRI reveals how music enhances food taste

By Amerigo Allegretto

Music and taste activate regions of the brain that are involved in taste processing and reward.

October 22, 2026

Brain fMRI activation maps showing statistical comparisons of temporal-spatial processing regions with color-coded intensity scales

EANM: Is ‘research fragmentation’ holding back nuclear medicine?

Well-designed studies require collaboration among nuclear medicine, medical oncology, urology, radiation oncology, and clinical trial support.

October 21, 2026

Research presentation on nuclear medicine fragmentation showing 25 studies with PET imaging criteria analysis and expert interview

PCCT improves image quality when scanning patients with obesity

By Amerigo Allegretto

PCCT resulted in better image quality on thoracic and abdominal scans in these patients than energy-integrating detector CT.

October 21, 2026

Comparative abdominal CT scans showing six cross-sectional images with varying BMI and radiation dose measurements

Kaiser score outperforms MRI BI-RADS for inconclusive breast findings

By Amerigo Allegretto

Kaiser scoring led to higher diagnostic accuracy on breast MRI.

October 20, 2026

Patient relaxing inside an MRI scanner with illuminated circular ring during medical imaging procedure

FAPI-PET detects more HCC lesions than FDG-PET

Relative to F-18 FDG, F-18 FAPI-PET/CT produced staging changes in 19 of 32 patients undergoing initial staging, including six true upstagings.

October 20, 2026

Comparative PET/CT scan images showing [18F]FAPI and [18F]FDG imaging with MIP projections, fusion views, and CT cross-sections for medical diagnosis

LLMs mostly avoid unnecessary care in Choosing Wisely tests

By Amerigo Allegretto

LLMs recommended potentially unnecessary care in about 5% of responses, with many being thyroid ultrasound tests.

October 19, 2026

EANM: Thomas Hope on what’s next in FAP-targeted theranostics

The innovations and work being done to optimize FAP agents will likely "spill over" to other targets.

October 19, 2026

Clinical research presentation slide showing FAP RLT experience data table with patient outcomes across multiple institutions and speaker photo

MRI shows no ties between COVID, future heart inflammation

By Amerigo Allegretto

A study of recovered COVID and non-COVID patients revealed no significant differences in heart inflammation on cardiac MRI exams.

October 19, 2026

3D medical illustration of human heart with coronary arteries glowing in orange and red against blue background

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