MR Robot: Prof. Dr. Andreas Melzer, director of the Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology at the University of Dundee in Scotland and co-founder of InnoMedic, describes at the ISMRM meeting a robot designed for MR interventions. The device, now in clinical testing, takes cues from an MR scan to position a probe at an exact point and along a specific trajectory. DI business editor Greg Freiherr has the report.
The Path of Least Resistance: Make it a Road Less Traveled in Radiology
June 5th 2023Whether it’s attempting to get appropriate clinical histories from referring physicians or getting a tech to split up a multiphasic contrast study into separate image series, consistently striving to fight the good fight for optimal image interpretation is worth the effort.
The Reading Room Podcast: Emerging Trends in the Radiology Workforce
February 11th 2022Richard Duszak, MD, and Mina Makary, MD, discuss a number of issues, ranging from demographic trends and NPRPs to physician burnout and medical student recruitment, that figure to impact the radiology workforce now and in the near future.
Large Study Shows Mixed Results in Comparison of DBT and Digital Mammography
May 31st 2023In a large retrospective study involving over 523,000 digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) exams and over one million digital mammography (DM) exams, researchers found that DBT was associated with significantly lower recall rates but showed no advantage over DM in the diagnosis of interval or advanced breast cancer.
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