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Radiology administrators are not confident that their practices will have adequate reimbursement from Medicare in the months to come, but they remain hopeful that imaging will grow as a profit center #radiology
MICI Q4: Radiology admins' confidence varies regarding medical imaging
Administrators' confidence is "neutral and consistent" with Q3 2025, although the "downstream impact of politics continues to be a concern."
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November 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Radiology administrators are not confident that their practices will have adequate reimbursement from Medicare in the months to come, but they remain hopeful that imaging will grow as a profit center #radiology
AI risk scoring from only medical images could help better predict five-year breast cancer risk over breast density alone #radiology #breastcancer #AI
Image-only AI model improves breast cancer risk assessment
AI image-based risk scoring could help with more accurate breast cancer prediction over breast density alone.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
AI risk scoring from only medical images could help better predict five-year breast cancer risk over breast density alone #radiology #breastcancer #AI
Contact sport athletes' brain waste-clearing systems significantly decline in function with repeated head impacts #radiology #MRI
Brain MRI reveals pro fighters' risk of waste clearing system damage
Sports-related traumatic brain injuries make up about 30% of brain injury cases.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Contact sport athletes' brain waste-clearing systems significantly decline in function with repeated head impacts #radiology #MRI
MRI-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) combined with chemotherapy boosted overall survival for patients with glioblastoma #radiology #MRI #MRgFUS
MRgFUS opens blood-brain barrier for chemotherapy
MRgFUS successfully opened the blood-brain barrier in cancer patients for chemotherapy to be delivered to target regions.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
MRI-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) combined with chemotherapy boosted overall survival for patients with glioblastoma #radiology #MRI #MRgFUS
The technetium-99m (Tc-99m)-based radiotracer helped visualize for the first time how the drug is distributed in the central nervous system #radiology #ALS
New SPECT/CT tracer visualizes distribution of ALS drug
Tofersen has been approved for treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but its regional brain uptake is not fully understood.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The technetium-99m (Tc-99m)-based radiotracer helped visualize for the first time how the drug is distributed in the central nervous system #radiology #ALS
Chronic stress appears to manifest as a detectable biomarker that can be seen on routine chest CT images using AI #radiology #CT
Imaging biomarker emerges as chronic stress measure
Adrenal volume acts like a "biological barometer" of chronic stress, according to Johns Hopkins researchers.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Chronic stress appears to manifest as a detectable biomarker that can be seen on routine chest CT images using AI #radiology #CT
MRI has revealed that shape changes in the buttocks may be an indicator of type 2 diabetes #radiology #MRI #diabetes
Does the shape of our buttocks signal diabetes?
In participants with type 2 diabetes, MRI showed that men had muscle shrinkage, while women showed enlarged muscles.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
MRI has revealed that shape changes in the buttocks may be an indicator of type 2 diabetes #radiology #MRI #diabetes
For decades, the strength of your network -- whether measured in number of connected hospitals, cloud nodes, or referral relationships -- was the ultimate moat. If you had the pipes, you controlled the flow. But agentic AI is rewriting the rules #radiology #AI
Your network doesn't matter anymore
Agentic AI is rewriting the rules, according to PocketHealth Co-Founder and CEO Rishi Nayyar.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
For decades, the strength of your network -- whether measured in number of connected hospitals, cloud nodes, or referral relationships -- was the ultimate moat. If you had the pipes, you controlled the flow. But agentic AI is rewriting the rules #radiology #AI
A new case for your consideration: 70-year-old man with left-sided chest pain #radiology
70-year-old man with left-sided chest pain - Auntminnie
A 70-year-old man presented with concern of left-sided chest pain.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
A new case for your consideration: 70-year-old man with left-sided chest pain #radiology
A bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives has reintroduced a bill that aims to expand access to diagnostic breast imaging #radiology #breastcancer #mammography
House members reintroduce Find It Early Act
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have reintroduced the Find It Early Act to remove barriers to breast imaging.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
A bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives has reintroduced a bill that aims to expand access to diagnostic breast imaging #radiology #breastcancer #mammography
What do you make of this case? #radiology
45-year-old man with flank trauma after bicycle accident - Auntminnie
A 45-year-old man was transported to the hospital after a bicycle accident with blunt trauma to his right flank.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
What do you make of this case? #radiology
The use of head CT during emergency department (ED) encounters increased more than twofold between 2007 and 2022 #radiology #CT
CT use in the emergency department has increased more than 2-fold
The use of head CT in the emergency department increased by 6.7% to 10.3% between 2007 and 2022, researchers have reported.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The use of head CT during emergency department (ED) encounters increased more than twofold between 2007 and 2022 #radiology #CT
"It's disappointing that lung cancer screening uptake remains this low," lead author Priti Bandi, MD, said #radiology #lungcancer #lungcancerscreening
ACS: Only 1 in 5 eligible U.S. adults underwent LCS in 2024
If screening increased to 100%, an estimated 62,110 lung cancer deaths over five years would be prevented, the ACS reported.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
"It's disappointing that lung cancer screening uptake remains this low," lead author Priti Bandi, MD, said #radiology #lungcancer #lungcancerscreening
Our last installment! Road to RSNA 2025: Ultrasound Preview #radiology
Road to RSNA 2025: Ultrasound Preview
Ultrasound may not get as much love as other imaging modalities at RSNA, but its impact will still be felt at McCormick Place.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Our last installment! Road to RSNA 2025: Ultrasound Preview #radiology
Another case for your consideration #radiology
62-year-old man with worsening dizziness - Auntminnie
A 62-year-old man presented to the hospital with complaints of five months of dizziness and two months of altered mental status and impaired ability to ambulate, as well as recent weight loss.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Another case for your consideration #radiology
An AI-powered workflow algorithm could help deliver equitable care to women seeking breast cancer screening #radiology #breastcancer #AI
AI-driven workflow delivers equitable breast cancer care
An AI-powered workflow increased cancer detection while not adding to disparities in race and breast density.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
An AI-powered workflow algorithm could help deliver equitable care to women seeking breast cancer screening #radiology #breastcancer #AI
Their performance was good enough to consider the model for generating mock exams for training programs #radiology #LLMs
LLMs fit for writing mock rad tech exams
OpenAI's o3 large language model (LLM) generated radiological licensure items that aligned with national standards.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Their performance was good enough to consider the model for generating mock exams for training programs #radiology #LLMs
Adaptive stress coping is associated with cognitive resilience in unimpaired older adults at-risk for Alzheimer’s disease #radiology #Alzheimers #PETimaging
Stress coping may protect against cognitive decline
Adaptive coping was associated with better cognitive trajectories, independent of amyloid and tau PET brain pathology.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Adaptive stress coping is associated with cognitive resilience in unimpaired older adults at-risk for Alzheimer’s disease #radiology #Alzheimers #PETimaging
Another installment! Road to RSNA 2025: Imaging Informatics Preview #radiology
Road to RSNA 2025: Imaging Informatics Preview
AI often makes headlines for its capabilities in image analysis, but perhaps its most significant impact is on workflow applications.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Another installment! Road to RSNA 2025: Imaging Informatics Preview #radiology
Check out our sixth installment of our Road to RSNA 2025 coverage: Molecular Imaging Preview #radiology
Road to RSNA 2025: Molecular Imaging Preview
The green flag is up, and nuclear medicine and molecular imaging have plenty of fuel in their tank on the 2025 Road to RSNA.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Check out our sixth installment of our Road to RSNA 2025 coverage: Molecular Imaging Preview #radiology
What's your diagnosis? #radiology
55-year-old man with sudden-onset headaches - Auntminnie
A 55-year-old man presented to the emergency department due to sudden-onset headaches.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
What's your diagnosis? #radiology
The models, based on data from mammography features, achieved high marks in identifying candidates for active monitoring #radiology #radiomics @DCIS #mammography
Mammography-based radiomic models predict DCIS upstaging
Radiomic models based on mammography features performed consistently for predicting invasive cancer in women with DCIS.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The models, based on data from mammography features, achieved high marks in identifying candidates for active monitoring #radiology #radiomics @DCIS #mammography
The use of large language models (LLMs) with oncologic CT reports simplifies medical text and makes the reports clearer for patients #radiology #LLMs #CT
LLMs improve patient comprehension of oncologic CT reports
Patients' understanding of their health data is "key to empowering them for health care decision-making and informed consent."
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November 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The use of large language models (LLMs) with oncologic CT reports simplifies medical text and makes the reports clearer for patients #radiology #LLMs #CT
Another case for your consideration: buff.ly/SQmPrfO#radi...
55-year-old man with sudden-onset headaches - Auntminnie
A 55-year-old man presented to the emergency department due to sudden-onset headaches.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Another case for your consideration: buff.ly/SQmPrfO#radi...