U.S. healthcare is now a solid week into the CT contrast shortage of ’22, and common themes are emerging in adaptations at local hospitals and imaging centers.

Challenged by the COVID pandemic to “match pedagogy with purpose,” many radiology educators have tapped technology to help keep residents from falling behind.

Computer scientists, rheumatologists and immunologists have pooled skill sets to develop a neural network that can distinguish between rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis while also recognizing healthy joints with no arthritis at all.

The interventional radiology practice of an academic medical center has identified four challenges to securing informed consent from patients or their medical decision-makers. 

In pediatric care settings, hybrid PET/MR imaging combines “exquisite soft-tissue information obtained by MR imaging with functional information provided by PET.”

Applied physicists have developed a portable MRI system that can screen young tennis players for wrist injuries in a minivan or suchlike passenger vehicle. 

Using point-of-care ultrasound in emergency settings does not lead to overutilization of follow-up imaging with cross-sectional CT, MRI or additional ultrasounds. 

"Inattention blindness bias" causes radiologists to unintentionally overlook what could be considered an obvious or significant finding.