Kevin M. Reilly[email protected]Nuclear MedicineHow to maintain a successful PET/CT program"If you build it, they will come" was the philosophy many radiology practices believed earlier this decade. But with the Deficit Reduction Act and increases in facility costs, radiology practices have been forced to look for creative ways to increase their patient volume. Kevin Reilly shares some basic principles for PET/CT program success.September 3, 2009Page 1 of 1Top StoriesImaging InformaticsSIIM: LLMs can reliably perform numerical tasks in radiologyA study presented at SIIM 2026 showed how LLMs can perform well on numerical tasks in radiology.Molecular ImagingEarly FAPI-PET scans match 60-minute scans for lung cancer stagingSIIM 2026SIIM: LLMs have tradeoffs in energy use for imaging tasksMRIAI gives a boost to cardiac MRI risk predictionSponsor ContentWebinar: AI for CT & PET/CT Imaging
![Axial images from unenhanced calcium score cardiac CT (left) and curved planar reformation images from CT angiography (right) show that higher long-term exposure to air pollution is associated with greater coronary artery calcium and more obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD). Top row: Images in a 68-year-old male patient with higher 10-year mean ambient air pollution exposure (7.9 μg/m3 for particulate matter measuring ≤2.5 μm in diameter [PM2.5] and 17.4 parts per billion [ppb] for NO2) with extensive CAD (coronary artery calcium score [CACS] >1,000 and obstructive CAD [≥70% diameter stenosis]). Bottom row: Images in a 57-year-old female patient with lower 10-year mean ambient air pollution exposure (6.3 μg/m3 for PM2.5 and 4.6 ppb for NO2) with no CAD (CACS = 0 and no obstructive stenosis).](https://img.auntminnie.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/06/hanneman.r6SMLzkezo.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
