Dear AuntMinnie Member,
Each time you see an athlete cross the finish line at this month's Olympic Games in Athens, you're witnessing a triumph of athletic achievement. And while training and natural ability are major parts of any athlete's success, staying free of injury can often mean the difference between standing on the winner's podium and watching the Olympics from home.
The athletes are benefiting from the major advances that have occurred in medical imaging technology in recent years. From multislice CT to musculoskeletal MRI to digital radiography, radiologists and sports imaging specialists have more tools at their disposal than ever to diagnose and treat injuries.
Find out how medical imaging is supporting Olympic athletes with AuntMinnie.com's 2004 Olympic Games RADCast. AuntMinnie writers Tracie L. Thompson and Matt King are on hand in Athens, filing reports on how radiology is helping the games -- and the athletes -- run smoothly.
You'll also find stories in the RADCast that you can use in everyday practice to help you diagnose sports-related injuries -- and be a star in the eyes of your patients and referring physicians. Check it out at olympics.auntminnie.com. And be sure to visit our photo gallery from the games, updated daily.
![Representative example of a 16-year-old male patient with underlying X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy. (A, B) Paired anteroposterior (AP) chest radiograph and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) report shows lumbar spine (L1 through L4) areal bone mineral density (BMD). The DXA report was reformatted for anonymization and improved readability. The patient had low BMD (Z score ≤ −2.0). (C) Model (chest radiography [CXR]–BMD) output shows the predicted raw BMD and Z score in comparison with the DXA reference standard, together with interpretability analyses using Shapley additive explanations (SHAP) and gradient-weighted class activation maps. The patient was classified as having low BMD, consistent with the reference standard. AM = age-matched, DEXA = dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry, RM2 = room 2, SNUH = Seoul National University Hospital, YA = young adult.](https://img.auntminnie.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/04/ai-children-bone-density.0snnf2EJjr.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
