Diagnostic Imaging's Weekly Scan: December 7 — December 13

Welcome to Diagnostic Imaging’s Weekly Scan, which offers an opportunity to catch up on the most well-viewed radiology content of the past week.

In a recent interview with Diagnostic Imaging, Layne Dylla, M.D. discussed key findings from a recent study that revealed a doubling of annual head CT scans in emergency department settings over a 15-year period.

Noting limitations of prostate MRI and advantages of PSMA PET/CT for detecting extraprostatic extension and lymph node involvement, researchers explored the potential utility of standalone PSMA PET/CT in prostate cancer staging in a review presented for the RSNA conference.

In a recent interview, Tyler Coombes, M.D., and Parth Patel, M.D., discussed recent research, presented at the RSNA conference, which suggested that quantitative evaluation of non-calcified plaque volume (NCPV) may offer significant utility for cardiovascular risk stratification.

In an interview with Diagnostic Imaging at the RSNA conference, Rajesh Bhayana, M.D., discussed current research findings on the use of large language models (LLMs) in radiology and emerging LLMs that may have an impact.

In a newly published study involving patients with systemic sclerosis, researchers found that the combination of photon-counting CT and automated Lung Texture Analysis (LTA) offered a higher AUC for detecting interstitial lung disease (ILD) at a 70 percent lower mean CT dose index than the pairing of energy-integrating detector CT and LTA.

Watch the video summary below of Diagnostic Imaging’s Weekly Scan.