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Week in Review: Vienna calling for Vilgrain | New findings on cardiac CT | Controlling demand for imaging

As ECR 2025 looms large, we begin our build-up to the congress by speaking with the renowned educator and gastrointestinal radiologist Prof. Valérie Vilgrain.

January 23, 2025

Week in Review: Coroner focuses on radiology error | Response to AI action plan | MRI of the vulva

An error by a radiologist from an outsourcing company contributed to a patient death, a coroner has found.

January 16, 2025

Artificial Intelligence

Radiology responds to launch of U.K. AI action plan

The medical imaging community has started to give its verdict on the U.K. government's 26-page strategy document for AI that was unveiled on 13 January.

January 14, 2025

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Week in Review: Use of AI to triage brain MRI | Why start breast screening at 40? | ESR unveils election candidates

An important new study has found that most clinicians support the idea of using AI to triage MRI scans of the brain.

January 9, 2025

ESR reveals candidates for 2025 elections

The European Society of Radiology (ESR) has announced the details of its annual elections, which begin on 14 January. Three of the five posts to be filled are uncontested.

January 9, 2025

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How do clinicians perceive use of AI to triage brain MRI?

New research from a top London hospital suggests that AI can be implemented effectively to triage MRI scans of the brain to streamline the patient pathway and also relieve clinician workload.

January 7, 2025

Week in Review: Top 10 list for 2024 | Court case looms in Italy | Virtual reality advances

There's invariably a couple of major surprises when we reveal the 10 most popular articles of the year, and 2024 is no exception.

December 19, 2024

Advanced Visualization

Virtual reality initiates a paradigm shift in learning

Applying virtual reality and augmented reality technology to abdominal ultrasound exams can boost the spatial understanding and procedural skills of trainees.

December 19, 2024

Ultrasound is an operator-dependent technique, the success of which rests on good training. All figures courtesy of Dr. Pasquale Maria Parrella et al and ESR EPOS database.

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Virtual reality is having a significant clinical impact on training and education in abdominal ultrasound.

December 18, 2024

Ultrahigh-field MRI, medicolegal and safety topics dominate

The clinical potential of 11.7T MRI, along with medicolegal investigations and patient safety, feature strongly in Aunt Minnie Europe's 2024 list of 10 most popular articles.

December 18, 2024

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Brain Puzzle Stars Social

What brain mechanisms drive depression in older adults?

PET has revealed that mechanisms other than amyloid brain deposits may underlie depressive symptoms in people later in life.

Images in a 74-year-old male patient who presented at the hospital with acute symptoms of a right hemispheric ischemic stroke and a National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score of 24. (A) Nonenhanced CT image shows no signs of early infarction, whereas (B) CT perfusion image shows a large perfusion deficit in the territory of the middle cerebral artery and anterior cerebral artery caused by an extracranial occlusion in the right internal carotid artery. (C) Digital subtraction angiography shows the occlusion in the C1 segment. The extracranial occlusion was passed, reperfused, and subsequently stented (D, E). The final contrast injection did not reveal any intracranial occlusions within the territory of the internal carotid artery (F). At the 24-hour follow-up, there was no infarction on (G) the nonenhanced CT image, and the NIHSS score had decreased to 3 points. Image courtesy of RSNA.

German team supports use of endovascular thrombectomy

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DEXA receives major boost for osteoporosis screening

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ML model using CCTA, MRI data predicts MACE in cardiac patients

Justice Scales Fire

Patient death prompts RCR to act on gastric bands

What brain mechanisms drive depression in older adults?

PET has revealed that mechanisms other than amyloid brain deposits may underlie depressive symptoms in people later in life.

January 24, 2025

Brain Puzzle Stars Social

German team supports use of endovascular thrombectomy

Researchers from Hamburg say endovascular thrombectomy is a safe and effective option in cases of acute extracranial internal carotid artery occlusions.

January 23, 2025

Images in a 74-year-old male patient who presented at the hospital with acute symptoms of a right hemispheric ischemic stroke and a National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score of 24. (A) Nonenhanced CT image shows no signs of early infarction, whereas (B) CT perfusion image shows a large perfusion deficit in the territory of the middle cerebral artery and anterior cerebral artery caused by an extracranial occlusion in the right internal carotid artery. (C) Digital subtraction angiography shows the occlusion in the C1 segment. The extracranial occlusion was passed, reperfused, and subsequently stented (D, E). The final contrast injection did not reveal any intracranial occlusions within the territory of the internal carotid artery (F). At the 24-hour follow-up, there was no infarction on (G) the nonenhanced CT image, and the NIHSS score had decreased to 3 points. Image courtesy of RSNA.

DEXA receives major boost for osteoporosis screening

Greater emphasis looks set to be put on the use of dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) for osteoporosis screening.

January 22, 2025

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ML model using CCTA, MRI data predicts MACE in cardiac patients

By Amerigo Allegretto

A machine-learning (ML) model that includes both CCTA and stress cardiac MRI data can accurately predict major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE).

January 20, 2025

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Patient death prompts RCR to act on gastric bands

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

A coroner's report has led to a pledge by the U.K. Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) to consider how to improve identification of "slipped" gastric bands on imaging.

January 16, 2025

Justice Scales Fire

Genetic testing, risk assessment tied to more breast MRI uptake

By Amerigo Allegretto

Women with high-risk pathological variants for breast cancer as identified by genetic testing and risk assessment are more likely to undergo breast MRI.

January 15, 2025

PET scans can reduce unnecessary lymph node procedures

Negative prostate-specific antigen PET scans can be used to avoid unnecessary pelvic lymph node dissection in certain prostate cancer patients undergoing radical prostatectomies.

January 10, 2025

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ChatGPT promising as support tool for researchers getting started in AI

By Amerigo Allegretto

ChatGPT could serve as an academic reference tool for early-career radiologists and researchers.

December 17, 2024

LLMs outperform medical student in solving imaging cases

By Amerigo Allegretto

Large language models (LLMs) outperformed a medical student when solving imaging cases in a quiz widely used by medical professionals.

December 16, 2024

Irish radiologist, 37, dies of cancer

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Tributes have been paid to a gifted young radiologist and mother-of-two from County Westmeath who has died from brain cancer, according to a report in the Irish media.

December 9, 2024

Symphony of radiology: RSNA unveils art winners

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The prize winners of the RSNA 2024 Art Contest are being displayed at the Learning Center at McCormick Place, Chicago, during the meeting.

December 2, 2024

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Siemens targets 3.3B patient touchpoints by 2030

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

In the fourth edition of its annual sustainability report, Siemens Healthineers has emphasized the need to address patient care and pressing global crises.

November 26, 2024

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