A new Irish study has highlighted an alarming lack of knowledge among clinicians about radiation exposure and its potential risks.

Radiologist Dr. Richard M. Chesbrough has taken an in-depth look at outpatient imaging services in Southeast Michigan, and the resulting picture is not pretty

Many radiologists have already viewed clinical images on their iPhones, but a study by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College finds that there are plenty of other applications, ranging from study aides to clinical data lookups, that may be of value to practicing imagers.

DR Systems, an independent provider of medical information management systems, debuted a new image management system based on cloud computing Monday afternoon at the 2009 RSNA conference.

The number of unidentified, not corrected errors in radiology reports of spine MRIs is significantly higher than that of corrected errors, according to a study presented at the RSNA meeting on Monday.

Imaging suite dashboards that incorporate business intelligence to automate more steps could speed up and improve imaging processes, according to a Monday presentation at the RSNA meeting.

Developing a structured and rigorous peer-review quality assurance process that involves ongoing case presentations, open discussion, and consensus opinions can help to decrease perception errors and improve the interpretive skills of breast imagers, according to radiologists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Preoperative meniscal extrusion and the severity of cartilage loss and bone marrow edema can be trusted to predict the outcomes of arthroscopic partial meniscectomy in middle-aged and elderly patients.

If it’s round, has a hole in it, and isn’t a bagel or donut in the break room, chances are it’s a CD brought into the practice by a patient. According to Dr. Bradley Erickson from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, the use of compact discs to transfer diagnostic imaging data has seen a steady increase over the past decade.

A group of radiologists from Boston Medical Center is using interventional techniques to treat bleeding Jehovah’s Witness patients.

Despite challenges, ultrasound remains useful in obese trauma patients. Using the lowest frequency ultrasound probe along with tissue harmonic imaging improves image quality, according to an education exhibit presented at RSNA 2009.

RSNA president Dr. Gary J. Becker drew upon words of wisdom from legendary college basketball coach John Robert Wooden before a lively audience at the Arie Crown Theater on Sunday, Nov. 29.

A retrospective single-center study involving 350 pregnant women indicates that contrast-enhanced CT to diagnose suspected pulmonary embolism poses no risk to the thyroid function of neonats.

Lesion size, patient age, and current ipsilateral breast cancer are statistically significant predictors of pathologic outcome for nonmasslike enhancement lesions seen on breast MRI, according to a scientific session presented on Sunday at the RSNA 2009 meeting.

A system that counts the number of CT exams by body part and date and alerts clinicians when they order more CT studies has been implemented at Brown Alpert Medical School in Rhode Island.

A collaborative project backed by the National Cancer Institute, the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) is serving as an umpire and scorekeeper of medical imaging research by setting the rules for assuring the validity of multicenter research and formatting results for easy tabulation and sharing.

Radiologists will often not biopsy small lesions because they assume the lesions are benign. But the decision to do so could mean missing malignant cases, according to a scientific session presented Sunday at the RSNA 2009 meeting.

A system that required physicians, rather than support staff, to approve low-utility imaging exams was able to cut their incidence by more than half, according to a study from Massachusetts General Hospital reported Sunday at the 2009 RSNA meeting.

Mild skin reactions are a not infrequent delayed adverse outcome of contrast-enhanced CT, according to a prospective study from the University of California, Davis.

Genitourinary scientific papers to be released at the 2009 RSNA meeting underscore attempts to address diagnostic challenges as old as the subspecialty itself by taking advantage of recent technological developments.