Theresa Pablos[email protected]UltrasoundUltrasound autopsies help doctors understand COVID-19A hospital in São Paulo used a portable ultrasound machine to perform autopsies on 10 patients with fatal cases of COVID-19. The authors described the modality's benefits for studying the effects of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus in a paper published on May 22 in Histopathology.June 2, 2020BreastYoung women have unique breast cancer characteristicsWomen under the age of 40 are more likely than older patients to have breast cancers diagnosed at a later stage and more aggressive tumor types, according to research published on May 22 for the 2020 American Society of Breast Surgeons virtual meeting.June 1, 2020MRIMRI aids discovery of new pregnancy contractionResearchers using MRI to study blood flow through the placenta discovered a new type of contraction during pregnancy. The authors described the characteristics of the aptly named "utero-placental pump" in a study published on May 28 in PLOS Biology.May 27, 2020UltrasoundPOCUS helps docs make timely decisionsPoint-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) may help physicians make timely and accurate decisions for patients admitted to the hospital with chest pain or shortness of breath, according to the findings of a pilot study published on May 16 in Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology.May 26, 2020BreastYears later, DCIS tied to more imaging but not anxietyIn the five years after treatment, women with a history of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) are more likely than their peers to undergo breast imaging but not to have anxiety or depression, according to the findings of a study published on May 8 in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment.May 25, 2020UltrasoundTongue ultrasound may identify obstructive sleep apneaTongue stiffness measured by shear-wave elastography ultrasound may be able to help identify patients with obstructive sleep apnea while they're awake, according to the findings of a pilot study published on May 10 in Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology.May 20, 2020UltrasoundContrast ultrasound reveals unique COVID-19 lung findingsContrast-enhanced ultrasound scans revealed patterns in the lung not typically associated with pneumonia in three Italian patients with COVID-19, according to a report published on May 12 in the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.May 20, 2020Breast6-month follow-up effective for BI-RADS 3 mammo findingsA six-month surveillance imaging appointment appears effective for women with BI-RADS 3 findings following routine screening mammography, according to the results of a large, long-term study published on May 19 in Radiology.May 19, 2020UltrasoundUltrasound scoring aids COVID-19 decisionsA risk-stratification system that includes scores from lung ultrasound scans may help emergency clinicians quickly make care decisions for patients with COVID-19, according to an article published on May 9 in Emergency Medicine Australasia.May 17, 2020BreastInitially hiding CAD findings could improve mammographyThe performance of computer-aided detection (CAD) software for breast cancer screening could be improved by initially hiding CAD findings from radiologists as they review images, according to the findings of a small study published on May 7 in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.May 14, 2020Previous PagePage 16 of 22Next PageTop StoriesUltrasoundCEUS impacts 2D shear-wave elastography liver assessmentContrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) performed after 2D elastography could impact liver assessment.AIHow accurate are AI-generated depictions of radiologists?Molecular ImagingExtravasations rare in Lu-177 DOTATATE therapyPractice ManagementNew MR safety codes provide additional reimbursement for radiologistsCTCT, MRI reveal hidden brain changes linked to increased fall risk
![Images depict axial MRI scans in a 50-year-old premenopausal female patient with biopsy-proven 12-mm invasive lobular cancer in the lower outer quadrant of the left breast. Upper images are subtracted dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI scans from the first and second postcontrast acquisitions. Lower images are ultrafast MRI scans obtained within 24 hours after the DCE study (four consecutive subtracted dynamic frames from time points [T] 6–9). There is marked background parenchymal enhancement (BPE) on the DCE MRI scans. Thus, the known cancer (arrow) is barely visible; it exhibits only slightly stronger enhancement than the normal fibroglandular tissue, which results in low conspicuity. At ultrafast MRI there is less BPE, and still the cancer is barely visible because it starts to enhance simultaneously with the BPE. The conspicuity of the cancer is even reduced compared with the DCE series. Both of the readers missed this cancer on both the DCE and ultrafast MRI scans.](https://img.auntminnie.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2025/05/2025-05-06-rsna-ultrafast-dce-mri-breast.Gzvq76udFr.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
