Updating hospital protocols can reduce the frequency of oversedation events during invasive radiology procedures, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Following the release of a lung cancer study that found fewer than 2 percent of heavy smokers received preventive CT screenings in 2016, the American College of Radiology (ACR) is urging physicians and insurance providers to step up in the fight against America’s deadliest disease. 

Natural language processing (NLP) techniques can help extract relevant data from free-text radiology reports, according to a study published in Journal of Digital Imaging.

Swapping traditional paper checklists for digital alternatives could cut the time physicists and dosimetrists spend on quality assurance (QA) within radiation therapy, researchers have reported in Practical Radiology Oncology. But it’s still unclear whether an electronic approach will really improve patient safety or quality of care.

Conventional MRI has a new use in the clinical setting, Canadian researchers wrote in Radiology this month: measuring lung ventilation abnormalities in free-breathing patients.

The American College of Radiology (ACR) announced this week it is now accepting applications for the Bruce J. Hillman Fellowship in scholarly publishing.

Here’s a twist on that old philosophical mind game about a tree falling in a forest when no one’s around to hear it. If a medical journal gets published and no one bothers to read it, does it do anything meaningful for medicine?