AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Radiology practices can create a more welcoming environment for radiologists returning from parental leave who breastfeed, according to a paper published November 26 in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology. They can also provide a PACS workstation in breastfeeding rooms so radiologists can interpret images while breastfeeding.

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Professional Radiology

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The way physicians identify illness is changing due to advances in medical imaging, which make early diagnosis quicker, more precise, and less invasive. As one of El Pasos top radiology centers, Professional Radiology is dedicated to offering cutting-edge imaging services that aid in the early detection of illnesses.

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Diagnostic Imaging Disease Diagnostic Imaging 240

AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Women’s imaging at this year’s RSNA reflects momentous changes in trends regarding personalized, targeted healthcare in 2024 for women’s health. Research efforts toward supplemental breast imaging have ramped up in recent years and in Chicago, attendees can see results from these imaging modalities being put to the test.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Representatives from 11 radiology societies around the world have issued a call to action to radiology leaders and societies to improve the environmental sustainability of the field. The paper was published February 26 in Radiology. "As A team led by Andrea Rockall, MD, ofImperial College London in the U.K., Conduct research.

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Radiology Nuclear Medicine Education Radiologist 200

AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A Swiss research team has developed and tested an AI model that automatically segments anatomic structures on MR images independent of sequence, according to a study published February 18 in Radiology. Images and caption courtesy of the RSNA. The team then assessed the model's performance using Dice scoring.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 28, 2025

Excess imaging translates to "significant"carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, according to a study published March 28 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Overuse of imaging is a strain on our healthcare system and radiology workforce," said senior author Michael Atalay, MD, PhD, of Brown University in Providence, RI.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Imaging software company Intelerad and Strategic Radiology are highlighting recent achievements stemming from their collaboration on increasing access to advanced imaging technology for members of Strategic Radiologys network.

Radiology 241

Radiology Imaging IT 241

AuntMinnie

MARCH 11, 2025

and radiology has learned much since then, according to experts who directly dealt with the diseases impact. While the pandemic affected medical operations across the country, the experts said that radiologists developed and honed their sense of resiliency as imaging was placed on the front lines.

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Radiation Oncology Radiology X-ray Radiation 204

AuntMinnie

JANUARY 22, 2025

Using a deep-learning model with lung CT imaging shows promise for identifying and segmenting tumors, researchers have reported. The findings were published January 21 in Radiology. Kashyap and colleagues hope the study findings could help radiology departments establish their own medical image segmentation datasets. "[Our]

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 27, 2025

Independent imaging centers are experiencing increased competition for CT patients, according to the newly published IMV 2024 CT Market Outlook Report. Hospital-based sites are more likely to be experiencing this shift compared to independent imaging centers. Independent imaging centers 10.9 hours on weekdays and 17.9

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Radiology Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Finding the right enterprise imaging (EI) system is critical for radiology practices and hospitals that need to expand and scale their multi-specialty image management and reading capacity.

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Imaging Hospital Radiology 274

AuntMinnie

MARCH 31, 2025

Radiology clinician, educator, and mentor Lawrence Ross Muroff, MD, died on March 27. A year after securing his MD, he served for two years with the Bureau of Radiological Health, a public health service, in Rockville, MD. He also founded and led radiology educational organizations such as Educational Symposia and Imaging Consultants.

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Nuclear Medicine Radiology Magnetic Resonance Imaging Education 165

Ben White

MARCH 24, 2025

This month, at the request of the Society of Pediatric Radiology , the ABR announced the addition of pediatric radiology to the “do a fellowship during residency” pathway first pioneered by nuclear medicine several years ago. Various imaging societies would certainly have an opinion, but no one can stop us.

Radiology 147

Radiology Nuclear Medicine Radiologist Diagnostic 147

AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The use of AI in thoracic imaging has begun to demonstrate "cumulative evidence of effectiveness," but more testing and research are needed to determine its feasibility for this application, according to a commentary published February 25 in Radiology. van Beek, MD, of the University of Edinburgh in the U.K.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 2, 2025

A significant percentage of imaging studies ordered by office-based healthcare providers are self-interpreted rather than referred to radiologists for reading, according to researchers from the Harvey L. The study was published April 2 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Neiman Health Policy Institute (HPI).

Image Interpretation 147

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Implementing a clinical decision support system (CDSS) had little effect on reducing inappropriate imaging orders by doctors in university hospitals, according to a study published February 10 in JAMA. The primary outcome measure was the proportion of inappropriate imaging requests made per department before and after implementation.

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Imaging Hospital Clinic Diagnostic 187

AuntMinnie

JANUARY 6, 2025

Student interest in radiologic technology education programs is on the rise, suggest survey findings published by the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT). These students entered programs approved by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT). All these programs are approved by the ARRT. "We

Nuclear Medicine 264

Nuclear Medicine Radiology Technologist Education Radiation 264

AuntMinnie

MARCH 14, 2025

Overall, the professional component reimbursement for our sample practice is estimated to decrease 2.16% while global reimbursement is estimated to decrease 3.55% from 2024 levels, based on the same volume of services.

Medicare 261

Medicare Radiology Nuclear Medicine X-ray 261

AuntMinnie

MARCH 21, 2025

New Jersey-based University Radiology Group (URG) has rejoined the Strategic Radiology coalition of independent radiology groups, raising the coalition's privately owned member groups to 43. URG, a 60-year-old radiology practice based in East Brunswick, employs over 180 board-certified radiologists who interpret over 2.1

Radiology 130

Radiology Insurance Patient Care Teleradiology 130

AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In his talk, Marc Kohli, MD, from the University of California, San Francisco, discussed current applications of this technology in clinical radiology. Marc Kohli, MD, discusses current and potential future uses of generative AI in radiology at ECR 2025 in Vienna, Austria.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

With 100% of precincts now reporting, we’re finally ready to declare this year’s winners in our annual awards program recognizing excellence in radiology. The voters also zeroed in on the ongoing shortage of radiologists as the Biggest Threat to Radiology. Most Influential Radiology Researcher Minnies 2024 Winner: Erik H.

Radiologist 360

Radiologist Education Clinic Radiology 360

AuntMinnie

MARCH 6, 2025

Private equity acquisition is on the rise in radiology, according to an analysis published March 5 in the American Journal of Roentgenology. High private equity penetration may allow firms to negotiate higher reimbursements and increase imaging utilization, the duo wrote. Radiology Specialists (6.7%).

Radiology 130

Radiology Radiologist Medicare Diagnostic Imaging 130

AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The global medical imaging community has paid tribute to Willi Kalender, PhD, the renowned medical physicist who died on October 21 at the age of 75. He is the father of contemporary CT imaging -- and thus of clinical radiology as we know it today," Christiane Kuhl, MD, PhD, told AuntMinnie.com on November 4.

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Clinic X-ray Radiology Medical 317

Ben White

JANUARY 22, 2025

The post Ashes to a New Radiology Practice first appeared on Ben White. But he shared a personal belief that such PE-backed provider groups serve their shareholders interest, not the patients’ and doctors’ and hospitals’ interests. Regardless of the reason, it happened.

Radiology 147

Radiology Private Practice Hospital Teleradiology 147

Radiology Business

JANUARY 20, 2025

To fully leverage today's radiology IT systems, standardization is a necessity. Steve Rankin, chief strategy officer for Enlitic, explains how artificial intelligence can help.

Radiology 274

Radiology Imaging IT 274

AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 20, 2024

While COVID and radiology salaries hit the top of AuntMinnie.com's Top 10 most-read posts in 2023, they rounded out the bottom of this year's list. Among our most popular stories, an incident in North Hollywood, California, demonstrated what can happen when a SWAT team raids an imaging center. Read more in the snapshots below.

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MRI Medicare Radiology Technologist Radiologist 279

Radiology Business

MARCH 21, 2025

Founded over 60 years ago, New Jersey-based University Radiology, employs 180-plus board-certified rads handling 2.1 million exams annually.

Radiology 257

Radiology Imaging 257

Health Imaging

AUGUST 2, 2024

American College of Radiology CEO Dana Smetherman, MD, is a diagnostic radiologist who specializes in breast imaging. She spoke to Health Imaging about some key issues that have her attention in 2024 and beyond.

Imaging 334

Imaging Health Imaging Radiologist Diagnostic 334

Ben White

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

From a Radiology Business summary of two new JACR papers predicting the future radiology market : In the next 30 years, the supply of radiologists is expected to grow by nearly 26%, assuming no increases in the number of radiology residents. The two papers are here and here.

Radiology 130

Radiology Radiology Marketing Image Interpretation Radiologist 130

Radiology Business

MARCH 28, 2025

Renaissance Imaging Medical Associates, a California-based Rad Partners affiliate, allegedly created false radiology reports supporting the diagnosis of spinal enthesopathy.

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Diagnose IT Radiology Medical 299

AuntMinnie

JANUARY 28, 2025

Features used for radiomics models can provide systematic analysis of images by overcoming the limitations of subjective analysis and dependence on the experience of radiologists interpreting MR images. From there, the researchers extracted 1,618 radiomic features and four kinetic features from ultrafast and standard MR images.

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MRI Radiologist Imaging Clinic 298

AuntMinnie

JANUARY 3, 2025

They were notorious in that they were inferior performers in an otherwise sound radiology department. Both were quite erratic in their radiology reports and became well-known for this. It could be a lengthy work of fantasy only vaguely related to the images or a concise and accurate verbal synopsis of the radiological findings.

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Radiologist Radiographer Radiograph Radiographer 317

AuntMinnie

APRIL 2, 2025

The crew will be in orbit for three to five days and will conduct more than 20 science experiments, including taking images of each other with an ultraportable x-ray machine. The Fen2 mission launched on March 31 at 9:46 p.m. EDT from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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X-ray Ultrasound Radiologist Diagnostic 290

AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Some of my radiological heroes would report a staggering 30,000 to 40,000 radiographs a year. The scanners could reconstruct images faster than we could report them. I remember the crossing of this particular radiological Rubicon about 15 years ago here in the U.K. I still don’t know how they did it. But stop this we must.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) has published results from its 2024 enrollment survey, showing that the number of new students enrolled increased compared with 2023. And MR imaging programs enrolled an average of 1,004 students, nearly doubling the 555 reported in 2023. This is up from 3,144 in 2023.

Radiology Technologist 130

Radiology Technologist Nuclear Medicine Radiography Radiology 130

Radiology Business

JANUARY 29, 2025

Melissa Davis, MD, vice chair of medical informatics and associate professor at Yale Universitys Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, shares her findings from research on private equity market penetration.

Radiology 284

Radiology Medical Imaging 284

Radiology Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

The South was the most active region with 50 deals, including 18 in Texas and 15 in Florida, experts write in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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