Diagnostic Imaging's Weekly Scan: September 21 — September 27

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.

New research, published earlier this week in Insights into Imaging, demonstrates that a MRI-based pancreatic risk stratification model (M-PRiSM) offers enhanced prognostic insight into postoperative survival for patients being treated for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC).

In a prospective study, recently published in the European Journal of Radiology, researchers found that deep learning image reconstruction (DLIR) may facilitate up to a 45 percent reduction in radiation dosing with dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) for the detection of liver metastases.

Speaking of radiation dosing, in a recent interview with Diagnostic Imaging, Dr. Rebecca Smith-Bindman discussed a new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, that examined the impact of cumulative radiation exposure from medical imaging upon hematologic cancer risk in children.

In a new 67-study meta-analysis published in Academic Radiology, researchers found that PSMA PET offered significantly higher accuracy in detecting biochemical recurrence (BCR), lymph node metastasis and bone metastasis in comparison to multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) and computed tomography (CT).

The combination of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) and molecular breast imaging (MBI) offered more than double the detection of invasive breast cancer with DBT in the first year of screening, according to a prospective study of nearly 3,000 women with dense breasts.

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