When the RSNA throws the book at us, we read it all
At 1186 pages, much of it in agate (very small) type, the RSNA 2008 program book is a pretty imposing document. Few people or organizations can claim to have reviewed most of it. But the Diagnostic Imaging news team did.
At 1186 pages, much of it in agate (very small) type, the RSNA 2008 program book is a pretty imposing document. Few people or organizations can claim to have reviewed most of it. But the Diagnostic Imaging news team did.
Every year, for 11 years running, we've divided the program book by topics and conducted a comprehensive review that is summarized and shared as part of our RSNA coverage planning process. Summaries in hand, our most senior editors meet and decide what we're going to cover in every time slot from Sunday through Friday morning. Calls and messages to program experts inform our decisions.
Articles are written on laptops at the meeting and then sent to San Francisco for further editing and posting on our annual RSNA webcast page. This year, our scientific and business editors produced more than 100 articles that appear at the webcast site.
Making it all the way through these articles is an imposing task all by itself. Our e-mail newsletters can help in this process. In addition, our web page has navigation tabs that allow you to sort by date and topic area.
A subgroup of these articles is further massaged for our annual In Review supplement and in the Overread and Tech Watch sections of the magazine. We'll mine the summaries for ideas that we'll develop later.
Conducting this review is a massive task but probably one of the most fruitful ones we do all year. The annual RSNA meeting is a treasure trove of information about clinical, technological, and practice advances in radiology and probably our best opportunity to gather and present this information to you.
-John C. Hayes is editor of Diagnostic Imaging.
Can MRI-Guided Transurethral Ultrasound Ablation Have an Impact for Localized Prostate Cancer?
December 11th 2023Follow-up MRI imaging one year after transurethral ultrasound ablation revealed approximately 50 percent decreases in prostate volume and median PSA density, according to recently presented research findings at the 2023 Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO) Annual Meeting.
What a New Mammography Study Reveals About BMI, Race, Ethnicity and Advanced Breast Cancer Risk
December 8th 2023In a new study examining population attributable risk proportions (PARPs) based on data from over three million screening mammography exams, researchers found that postmenopausal Black women had the highest BMI-related PARP and premenopausal Asian and Pacific Islander women had the highest breast density-related PARP for advanced breast cancer.
Study: Contrast-Enhanced Mammography Changes Surgical Plan in 22.5 Percent of Breast Cancer Cases
December 7th 2023Contrast-enhanced mammography detected additional lesions in 43 percent of patients and led to additional biopsies in 18.2 percent of patients, over half of whom had malignant lesions, according to a study of over 500 women presented at the recent Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference.
What a New Study Reveals About Adjunctive DBT and Early-Stage Invasive Breast Cancer
December 6th 2023The combination of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) and digital mammography had a 21.6 higher invasive breast cancer detection rate for stage 1 tumors than digital mammography alone, according to a new study involving nearly 100,000 women.
