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Italian research team shows the way on sustainability

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The new horizons of advanced imaging, especially in oncology, must increasingly consider not only diagnostic efficacy but also sustainability for patients, prize-winning researchers told ECR 2025 delegates. To mitigate these effects, low-energy imaging techniques should be prioritized without compromising diagnostic accuracy.

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A Physician, a Patient and a Technology Whose Time Is Now

Radiology Business

If certainty is the holy grail of diagnostic breast imaging, then opto-acoustic ultrasound is the treasure map showing exactly where to find it.

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Researchers offer age-specific dose estimator for fluoroscopy exams

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A team of researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital has developed an age-specific dose catalog for estimating radiation exposure to children from diagnostic and interventional radiology fluoroscopy procedures. They analyzed metrics to estimate age-specific effective dose per IR procedure type and diagnostic fluoroscopy exam.

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Is CEM or breast MRI better for breast cancer diagnosis?

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Ritse Mann, MD, PhD, of Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and colleague Valentina Longo, MD, of Fondazione Policlinico Universitario in Rome, Italy, noted that, although CEM's performance is slightly less than MRI for diagnostic imaging of breast cancer, in "many situations [it is] a viable alternative."

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Seno Medical's Imagio System Receives Innovative Technology Contract

Imaging Technology

The result is a diagnostic imaging modality that delivers functional information regarding suspicious breast masses, increasing confidence regarding the need for invasive breast cancer diagnostic biopsies. Seno’s Imagio OA/US technology combines light, sound, and AI to deliver new information never before available.

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ISCT: New professional positions could relieve RT workforce strain

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Geoffrey Rubin, MD, of the University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson, offered session attendees an overview of key issues in the radiology workforce landscape, highlighting a 2024 consensus committee report from the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) on the future of medical imaging and radiation therapy.

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Road to RSNA 2024: Ultrasound Preview

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Ultrasound proponents will have the opportunity to present and see the modality’s versatility in helping detect and diagnose pathologies such as liver cancer, breast cancer, and thyroid cancer. They can also highlight the resulting benefits that are possible, of course, without the ionizing radiation of some other imaging modalities.