Ryan McBeth[email protected]Home#MyRadGirlfriend No. 88: Data is king, but food fills seatsData is all the rage as healthcare analysts look for quantitative measures of healthcare quality. But how do you get busy attending physicians and residents to fill out surveys? Find out one trick in the next installment of #MyRadGirlfriend.June 27, 2019Home#MyRadGirlfriend No. 87: The feminist narrativeDo today's research trials adequately reflect medical outcomes in women? Or are they too focused on men? Ryan starts to wonder in the next installment of #MyRadGirlfriend.June 13, 2019Home#MyRadGirlfriend No. 86: Think before you scootElectric scooters are everywhere now, and while they can be a lot of fun, they also can have unintended consequences. One of those is more work for radiologists who read imaging studies from the emergency room -- including Andy, who decides to make a statement in the next installment of #MyRadGirlfriend.May 30, 2019Home#MyRadGirlfriend No. 85: The magic of Cinco de MayoWith the Cinco de Mayo holiday approaching, many hospital residents who aren’t working or aren’t on call have the opportunity to blow off a little steam. Priya and Andy are no different, as we discover in the next installment of #MyRadGirlfriend.May 2, 2019Emergency Radiology#MyRadGirlfriend No. 84: The most dangerous placeYes, the emergency room can be a dangerous place for a physician. But even greater danger can be found elsewhere in the hospital, as we learn in the next installment of #MyRadGirlfriend.April 11, 2019Home#MyRadGirlfriend No. 83: Circling the drainOne of the most challenging things about a radiologist's job can be dealing with referring clinicians, especially ones that are particularly obstinate, as Dr. Rankin is in the next installment of #MyRadGirlfriend.March 21, 2019Home#MyRadGirlfriend No. 82: When you hear hoofbeats ...It's been a late night in the reading room, and Andy encounters a perplexing case that could have a variety of differential diagnoses. Find out how she settles on the correct one in the next installment of #MyRadGirlfriend.March 7, 2019Home#MyRadGirlfriend No. 81: The price to pay for being antivaxAntivaxxers may think they're doing the right thing for their kids, but there's a price to pay for not getting vaccinated -- and it's mainly paid by their children, as Andy and Ryan find out in the next installment of #MyRadGirlfriend.February 21, 2019Home#MyRadGirlfriend No. 80: Anxiety in the reading roomWhat fears push your anxiety buttons? For some radiologists, it's the board exam, while others have more existential concerns. Andy has to face some of her internal demons during a long night in the reading room in the next installment of #MyRadGirlfriend.February 7, 2019Home#MyRadGirlfriend No. 79: How sweet it isMost folks would agree that the explosion of new coffee varieties is a great thing. But they can have a downside, as Andy and Priya find out in the next installment of #MyRadGirlfriend.January 24, 2019Previous PagePage 4 of 12Next PageTop StoriesMRIBlood-based testing could improve prostate cancer screening with MRIAdding the Stockholm3 blood-based biomarker test could help improve prostate cancer screening with MRI.Image ProcessingAdvancing precision medicine through quantitative imagingMRI"Dirty" brain white matter shows no link to dementia in older adultsMolecular ImagingNew PET tracer shows promise for guiding pancreatic cancer therapyWomens ImagingSIIM: CVMs on par with LLMs for labeling incidental breast findings
![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)
