Diagnostic Imaging's Weekly Scan: July 5, 2021 to July 9, 2021

Beyond the hype, whole-body MRI offers limited clinical benefit in the general population with extraneous use potentially triggering a cycle of overdiagnosis, unnecessary treatment and financial strain.

In the second of a multi-part podcast episode, Emanuel Kanal, M.D. and Tobias Gilk, MRSO, MRSE, share their perspectives on remote MRI safety protocols for ensuring screening accuracy and adherence to conditional implant guidelines as well as a rapid and effective response to adverse events.

Developed by 21 thoracic radiologists, the new international consensus statement addresses appropriate indications, scan acquisition and keys to reporting for the use of chest CT imaging in evaluating for residual lung abnormalities from COVID-19.

In the second part of a multi-part podcast episode, Stamatia Destounis, MD, Emily Conant, MD and Habib Rahbar, MD, discuss key sequences for abbreviated breast MRI and how it stacks up to other breast cancer screening modalities.

The dose length product (DLP) for the flash mode on a dual-source photon-counting CT system was less than a third of that for the spiral mode, according to a study of CTA findings for 1,000 patients presented at the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) conference.

The use of adjunctive bpMRI-based AI led to 10 percent and greater increases in lesion-level PPV for csPCa and PCa with a threshold of PI-RADS > 3.