Here's what to expect this week on Diagnostic Imaging.
In this week’s preview, here are some highlights of what you can expect to see coming soon:
Healthcare disparities and inequities are known to exist in diagnostic imaging. Research published in the American Journal of Roentgenology takes a look at imaging utilization across Medicare beneficiaries in emergency departments nationwide. Results indicate that African American patients are nearly one-third less likely to receive advanced imaging that their white counterparts. Look for more in-depth coverage this week.
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Providers cannot rely on the initial severity of a patient’s case of COVID-19 to determine whether he or she will have long-term respiratory complications. This week, findings published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society outline, based in part on CT and X-ray images, that common complications that linger after COVID-19 infection appear to be unrelated to how severe the patient’s case is. Keep your eyes open for more details this week.
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It’s January, and the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) is starting the year with a new president, Mary C. Mahoney, M.D., Benjamin Felson Endowed Chair and Professor of Radiology at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine. This week Diagnostic Imaging spoke with her about her priorities for RSNA over the coming year, as well as what she sees as the challenges and opportunities for the industry going forward. Watch for our interview with her in the coming days.
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Breast MRI and Background Parenchymal Enhancement: What a Meta-Analysis Reveals
May 29th 2025Moderate or marked background parenchymal enhancement (BPE) reduces the sensitivity and specificity of MRI for breast cancer detection by more than 10 percent in comparison to scans with minimal or mild BPE, according to a new meta-analysis.
New MRI Study Questions Use of Corticosteroid Injections for Knee OA
May 27th 2025Two years after intraarticular knee injections for knee osteoarthritis (OA), study participants who had corticosteroid knee injections had greater OA progression than control patients while the use of hyaluronic acid injections was associated with less OA progression.
Photon-Counting Computed Tomography: Eleven Takeaways from a New Literature Review
May 27th 2025In a review of 155 studies, researchers examined the capabilities of photon-counting computed tomography (PCCT) for enhanced accuracy, tissue characterization, artifact reduction and reduced radiation dosing across thoracic, abdominal, and cardiothoracic imaging applications.