Dear AuntMinnieEurope Member,
Getting into the Olympic Village was no easy task on Friday. After a 30-minute wait at the security desk, I had my photo ID checked four times and went through two airport scanners. The towering fences give the complex a penitentiary feel, but when sprinter Usain Bolt and other top athletes do eventually get inside next month, clearly they will be very well looked after. The restaurant alone caters for up to 5,000 people in a sitting.
The polyclinic opened officially this week and houses an impressive range of imaging equipment. Staff training has now begun, and you can read about it in our MRI Digital Community, or by clicking here.
Dr. Erik Odeblad, PhD, of Sweden isn't well-known among imaging professionals, but the Maverinck is convinced he played a vital role in the early development of MRI and deserves more widespread recognition. Find out why here.
Breast tomosynthesis continues to attract widespread attention, and new research from Malmö University Hospital in Sweden has provided further evidence of the technique's clinical value. Go to our Women's Imaging Community, or click here.
The weather at the annual meeting of the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR) in Edinburgh, U.K., wasn't exactly summer-like, but to make up for the cold and rain, there was plenty going on inside the conference venue. For instance, Portuguese researchers received rave reviews for their e-poster about neuroendocrine tumors. Get the story here.
The Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has a growing reputation in cardiac imaging. A new study from there has found that coronary CT angiography delivers similar diagnostic accuracy in men and women. For the details, visit our Cardiac Imaging Digital Community, or click here.
The in-press articles of the European Journal of Radiology are always worth a close look, and one that caught our eye is about how diffusion-weighted MRI can provide a boost for breast lesion detection. Learn more here.
