Sina Tavakoli, MD, PhD, of the University of Pittsburgh, has received the 2018 Strategic Radiology/RSNA Research Seed Grant to study the imaging of macrophages in atherosclerosis.

Interventional radiologist and 25-year Navy veteran Steve Ferrara, MD, lost his race against former Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton to represent Arizona’s 9th Congressional District. Ferrara, running as a Republican, was working to become the first radiologist elected to Congress.

Richard Stayskal, a Green Beret from North Carolina and Purple Heart recipient, sued the federal government for $10 million after a CT scan was misread, or perhaps not read at all—resulting in him developing stage four terminal lung cancer, according to reporting from WJZY-TV in Tampa.

Harvard researchers have developed a “cellular atlas” of the brain using a novel fluorescence imaging technique known as multiplexed error-robust fluorescence in-situ hybridization, or MERFISH, the Harvard Gazette reported early this month.

Canon Medical Systems USA announced a collaboration with Applied Radiology to support two international expert-led symposiums that will discuss innovation within high resolution imaging and imaging techniques for liver assessment at the 2018 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting.

As AI-related medical devices continue to saturate the healthcare market, regulatory agencies like the FDA are struggling to keep up with a new category of technology.

The Food and Drug Administration has cleared Siemens Healthineers’ Cios Spin, a mobile C-arm that enables surgeons to perform intraoperative corrections based on 3D images, Siemens announced this week.

The American College of Radiology (ACR) is co-sponsoring the 2018 International Day of Radiology on Thursday, Nov. 8, alongside RSNA and the European Society of Radiology.