Philip Ward

September 27, 2023

ISMRM: Promising MRI technique prepares to enter the clinical arena

Zero echo-time is shining light on a wide range of developmental, traumatic, inflammatory, rheumatological, and oncological conditions and can open the door for more MRI-based musculoskeletal studies and morphometric analyses, researchers from a leading U.K. hospital have reported.

June 7, 2023

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ISMRM: MRI detects brain changes in past cannabis users

Heavy cannabis use in adolescence to early adulthood is associated with volumetric differences in subregions of the hippocampus and amygdala, New Zealand researchers have reported at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) annual meeting.

June 5, 2023

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Nuclear Medicine

Is biopsy needed prior to PSMA-PET in elderly patients?

Prostate cancer PET/CT imaging can potentially obviate the need for invasive biopsies in elderly patients before they begin therapy, according to a study published April 28 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

May 1, 2023

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Christiane Kuhl speaks out on breast density and screening

Radiologists must be more active in providing objective and understandable information to women about the diagnostic and prognostic implications of dense breasts, and the value of using other screening methods. That's the view of leading expert Dr. Christiane Kuhl.

March 14, 2023

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Big crowds return to Vienna for first March ECR for 4 years

Official figures released by the European Society of Radiology show that 17,262 participants from 122 countries attended ECR 2023. This represents a rise of 14% compared with last year, but it is still a much lower figure than was recorded in 2019.

March 13, 2023

Breast

French group flies the flag for Europe in RSNA poster hall

Members of a research group in Nantes -- known as the jewel of the Loire Valley in northwest France -- received Europe's only magna cum laude award when the prestigious prizes were handed out on day 4 of the RSNA meeting.

November 30, 2022

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Running mania and World Cup fever come to the fore at RSNA

Sports-minded RSNA attendees had a bonanza on day 3 of the congress. A 5k fun run took place in the morning, and then four World Cup soccer games were broadcast live in a dedicated space in McCormick Place.

November 29, 2022

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U.K. strives to address huge workforce challenges

Every imaging department needs to take trainees if the U.K. is to come to terms with the huge shortfall of radiologists that is looming large in the years ahead, Dr. Priya Suresh said at a special session held on November 28 at RSNA 2022.

November 29, 2022

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Krestin gazes into radiology's future at RSNA 2022 event

When contemplating the future, we should not look in a rear-view mirror – we need to be open to the changing environment. That was the central message in a visionary lecture given by Dr. Gabriel Krestin, PhD, at a special evening reception held in Chicago on November 28.

November 28, 2022

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CCTA links neighborhood income to atherosclerosis

The relationship between socioeconomic disparities and imaging-defined coronary atherosclerosis on CCTA has not been fully understood.

$Study overview. (A) Volumetric segmentation of the paraspinal musculature was performed for 1,316 participants. (B) Manual segmentation was performed, the results were compared with the volumetric segmentation results, and the Dice score and the intersection over union were calculated. (C) The three-dimensional segmentations from T1 through T10 were individually extracted and combined into a single volume for analyses. (D) Muscle volume and median muscle attenuation were derived from the segmentation volumes. (E) Analyses were performed to assess the correlation of the paraspinal muscle attenuation and volume with the bone mineral density and the ability to predict vertebral fractures. NIFTI = Neuroimaging Informatics Technology Initiative, 3D = three-dimensional.$