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Take a road trip to discover true state of radiology, Halliday urges

Hop on a bus or jump on the train if you really want to find out what's happening in imaging departments, Dr. Kath Halliday, president of the U.K. Royal College of Radiologists (RCR), told RSNA 2022 attendees at a special session held in Chicago on Monday.

November 27, 2022

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Investigation reveals how stressed radiologist missed cancer

Full details have emerged in a report issued on November 7 about how an overworked radiologist missed a cancerous lesion and how the healthcare provider in New Zealand failed to respond adequately to concerns about workload pressures.

November 13, 2022

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Molecular Imaging

GE unveils new PET/CT system at EANM congress in Barcelona

GE Healthcare has launched the Omni PET/CT platform and Omni Legend system at the annual meeting of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) in Barcelona, Spain.

October 16, 2022

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Metallic markers produce diverse range of artifacts in breast MRI

Radiologists must be aware that metallic markers are responsible for artifacts in breast MRI exams, according to Swiss researchers. These artifacts can be of different types and sizes, depending on the MRI sequence, magnetic field, and marker type, they say.

August 3, 2022

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Don't modify the quench button: MRI safety grabs attention at ISMRM

LONDON - Take great care when it comes to the quench button, a specialist on MRI safety standards warned on Saturday at the annual meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). Also, stay vigilant of thermal burns, attendees were told.

May 8, 2022

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Under fire: Ukrainian radiologists take shelter from Russian attack

Radiologists from Ukraine are providing graphic details about the impact that the Russian invasion of their country has had on their lives. They are facing major disruption to their work, and they have even feared for their own survival.

February 28, 2022

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French doctor faces legal action over sale of Bataclan survivor's x-ray

A senior orthopedic surgeon faces legal action and a possible disciplinary charge after attempting to sell an x-ray of a concertgoer who was shot during the 2015 terrorist attack on the Bataclan music venue in Paris, according to media reports.

January 27, 2022

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When to biopsy: How prostate MRI can transform best practice

In the era of MRI targeting, do all prostate cancer patients require an additional 12-core systematic biopsy? Moving away from default systematic biopsy in some cases may be wise, according to German researcher Dr. Dominik Deniffel, who has won a prestigious award for trainees at RSNA 2021.

December 1, 2021

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Why do Spaniards live so long? Imaging of longevity

Life expectancy in Spain is nearly 86 years -- the highest in Europe and the fourth-highest worldwide -- RSNA 2021 delegates learned on Monday. This has major implications for radiology.

November 30, 2021

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Cybersecurity comes under intense scrutiny at RSNA 2021

Cybersecurity and safety have become major issues in global healthcare, and it's vital to address these topics because any radiology department or practice can easily become the victim of an attack, experts told RSNA 2021 attendees at a special session on Sunday.

November 29, 2021

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Representative longitudinal chest CT images and five-year parametric response mapping (PRM), pulmonary vascular CT reconstructions, and hyperpolarized xenon-129 (Xe-129) ventilation MRI scans from survivors of nonsevere and severe COVID-19 pneumonia. (A–F) Images in a 68-year-old male survivor of nonsevere COVID-19 pneumonia, (G–L) 62-year-old male survivor of severe COVID-19 pneumonia, and (M–R) 55-year-old male survivor of severe COVID-19 pneumonia. For each participant, the first three columns show coronal chest CT images from the acute phase (A, G, M), two-year follow-up (B, H, N), and five-year follow-up (C, I, O) (left to right). The fourth column (D, J, P) shows a coronal PRM image for each participant at five-year follow-up derived from paired inspiratory and expiratory CT scans, showing the spatial distribution of lung functional categories. Green indicates normal lung tissue, yellow indicates functional small airway disease, and red indicates emphysema. The second-to-last column shows volume-rendered small pulmonary vessel visualization (red) at five-year follow-up per participant (E, K, Q). The column on the far right (F, L, R) shows a hyperpolarized Xe-129 MRI ventilation defect percentage (VDP) map at five-year follow-up per participant. Dark blue represents high Xe-129 signal intensity, corresponding to well-ventilated lung regions, whereas red represents no Xe-129 signal intensity, corresponding to ventilation defects. At five-year follow-up, the 68-year-old survivor of nonsevere COVID-19 pneumonia (top row) showed near-complete radiologic resolution, no respiratory symptoms, and preserved pulmonary function. In contrast, the 62-year-old survivor of severe COVID-19 pneumonia (middle row) showed persistent fibrotic linear opacities without respiratory symptoms and mildly reduced pulmonary function. The 55-year-old survivor of severe COVID-19 pneumonia (bottom row) showed persistent scattered fibrotic linear opacities and focal emphysematous changes in both lungs, with dyspnea and impaired gas exchange function. The VDP values obtained from F, L, and R were 7.7%, 7.1%, and 6.3%, respectively.

What are the effects of COVID-19 pneumonia after 5 years?

After five years, residual lesions persisted in 35.6% of survivors (37 of 104).

Nuclear Medicine

USC researchers develop “plug-and-play" platform for PET tracers

Representative MRI scans for which the independently assigned imaging-derived extranodal extension (iENE) grades differed among the readers. (A) Axial and sagittal images in a 56-year-old male patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma and cervical nodal metastases. Readers 1 and 3 interpreted the finding as a metastatic lymph node invading the left sternocleidomastoid muscle (arrow) and assessed an iENE grade of 3, whereas reader 2 assigned a grade of 2. After joint review, the radiologists reached a consensus on the absence of definite sternocleidomastoid muscle invasion, and the final iENE grade was 2. (B) Axial and sagittal images in a 52-year-old male patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma and cervical nodal metastases. Reader 1 interpreted the findings as a single enlarged metastatic lymph node and assessed an iENE grade of 1, whereas readers 2 and 3 interpreted them as two coalescent metastatic lymph nodes (arrows) and assessed a grade of 2. After joint review, the radiologists reached a consensus on the coalescence of the two metastatic lymph nodes, and the final iENE grade was 2.

Image-based grading system estimates nasopharyngeal carcinoma severity

Astro

ASTRO 2026 to center on translating radiotherapy data into dialogue

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Recalls stable for radiation oncology tools despite tech advancements

By Amerigo Allegretto

While radiation oncology devices using AI or machine learning are increasingly entering the market, recalls may be plateauing.

September 18, 2026

Ultrasound MinnieCast, Episode 17: Elastography holds promise toward expanded role

By Amerigo Allegretto

David Fetzer, MD, discusses current applications and issues in the world of elastography.

September 18, 2026

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Minibeam radiotherapy performs well in first clinical trial

The technique delivers very high doses of radiation through closely spaced, extremely narrow beams.

September 17, 2026

Radiation oncology medical physicist Michael Grams, MD, holds a device called a tungsten collimator that divides a conventional radiation beam into submillimeter-wide beamlets.

USPSTF names radiologist to task force; ACR responds

By Amerigo Allegretto

Dennis Wulfeck, MD, has 33 years of experience in diagnostic imaging, and his appointment to the task force has the support of the ACR.

September 17, 2026

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Individual specialization may drive IR procedure complexity

By Amerigo Allegretto

Practice- and radiologist-level IR specializations showed associations with greater procedural complexity.

September 17, 2026

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AI boosts brain aneurysm detection on CT angiography

AI preferentially detected smaller aneurysms (< 3 mm), while radiologists more often identified larger aneurysms (3 to 5 mm and > 5 mm).

September 17, 2026

ASTRO issues first radiation therapy guideline for bladder cancer

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Bladder preservation should be presented as a curative treatment option alongside radical cystectomy.

September 16, 2026

LLM on par with head-and-neck subspecialists in analyzing MRI reports

By Amerigo Allegretto

GPT-5-Thinking yields similar diagnostic accuracy compared to subspecialists focusing on orbital and head-and-neck MRI.

September 16, 2026

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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.

September 15, 2026

Chest CT muscle attenuation predicts future bone density loss

Muscle and bone loss commonly coexist with aging, but potential links between paraspinal muscle and thoracic vertebral bone mineral density loss remain poorly understood

September 15, 2026

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.

Curium gets FDA approval for Lu-177 injection for GEP-NETs

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The radioligand therapy delivers targeted radiation to GEP-NETs by binding to somatostatin receptors expressed on these tumors.

September 15, 2026

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Brains age faster among residents in disadvantaged neighborhoods

By Amerigo Allegretto

MRI data show that living in disadvantaged neighborhoods is tied to adverse brain health.

September 15, 2026

National and state neighborhood-level disadvantage rankings of the study patients. (A) National disadvantage rankings are shown. Left: area deprivation scores mapped onto the state of Wisconsin, where the study sample resides, with national ranking deciles shown. Blue indicates less disadvantaged neighborhoods, whereas red indicates more disadvantaged neighborhoods. Right: histogram quantifying the number of patients in each Area Deprivation Index (ADI) decile. (B) Same as A, but state ranking deciles are shown. The distributions of both the national and state-level ADI rankings of the patients were skewed toward less disadvantaged neighborhoods. Maps were obtained from reference 36.

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