Education & Training

Providers still routinely using unnecessary imaging to diagnose mild traumatic brain injury

There is little value in deploying CT, MRI or X-ray to diagnose mTBI, experts note, and it may instead result in harm and excess costs.

Charles Maxfield, MD, professor of radiology and pediatrics, Duke pediatric radiology, vice chair of education, and division chief of pediatric radiology, discusses residency Match Day 2023 and how prestigious medical schools to try tipping the scales in their collective favor for the best students. #Matchday 2023

Watch for prestigious medical schools trying to tip the scales in their favor during Match Day 2023

Who benefits and who pays the price when top-ranked medical schools withhold comparative student data from radiology residency program directors? Radiology researchers at Duke recently documented the commonness of the problematic practice.

Q&A: Dr. William Brody reflects on a radiological life well lived

As a high-schooler, he rebuilt a hospital’s discarded X-ray machine to learn the science of crystallography using the principles of Bragg diffraction.

7 steps to ‘new era of personalized medicine’ by way of radiomic analysis

Quantifiable features of medical images such as pixel intensity, arrangement, color and texture—in a word, radiomics—can help radiologists improve diagnostic accuracy.

Neha Patel doesn’t want her radiologist husband prosecuted for attempted vehicular homicide

The radiologist suspected of trying to murder his wife and children by deliberately driving the family car over a 250-foot cliff has an unlikely ally in his corner.

Internal surgery patients with infectious complications shown not to benefit by extra CT

Thoracic CT is safely and wisely omitted from diagnostic protocols for ICU patients who have signs of infection after abdominopelvic surgery but were already imaged with abdominal CT.

Long daily exposure to blue light no threat to radiologists’ eyesight

Most radiologists log many hours every workday gazing into computer monitors emitting blue light, but their eyes are at close to zero risk of damage from retinal phototoxicity.

Homegrown tracking boosts follow-up imaging for incidental findings of uncertain gravity

A structured program to track incidental findings on body CT has significantly boosted rates of clinician follow-up as well as timely patient adherence to radiologist recommendations for next exams.

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The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.