When it comes to digital medicine, digital pathology is very late to the game. But its time is coming. And the benefits could be many: Bolstering the capabilities, efficiency and reach of individual pathologists, cutting patient wait times, streamlining multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTs) and offering more data-rich decision-making. It could even obviate a shortage of pathologists. Where does it fit into your strategic plan?

Once a child’s broken arm is on the mend, little to nothing is gained by having follow-up x-rays read by both radiologists and orthopedic surgeons, according to a study conducted at Case Western Reserve University and published online March 6 in the Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics.

To cut respiratory motion artifacts on liver MRI, have patients hold their breath at the end of an exhale rather at the end of an inhale. That’s the recommendation of Stanford researchers after testing and comparing the two techniques, and it holds for unenhanced and contrast-enhanced scans.

In Ontario, Canada, it is illegal to cremate a patient who has received the radiation treatment brachytherapy. Radiation experts are now calling on the province to change the law, according to a report by CBC News.

Authors of the research, published in the Korean Journal of Radiology, analyzed 516 published studies and found only six percent (31 studies) externally validated their AI.

Measuring the effectiveness of treatment in metastatic melanoma patients is difficult, but a study published in the March issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine found 18F-FDG PET/CT could accurately monitor immunotherapy with ipilimumab in these patients.

When JAMA published research detailing radiation contamination in a crematorium, it gained considerable attention from both the mainstream media and the general public. Mahadevappa Mahesh, MS, PhD, chief physicist for Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, spoke with Radiology Business to provide additional information about this subject.

MIT researchers have developed a near-infrared imaging technique that can detect tumors deep in internal tissue before the cancer grows beyond a few hundred cells.

Researchers looked at data from more than 2,500 free-text radiology reports of patients undergoing hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance to determine if an NLP approach could extract clinical data and predict downstream utilization of resources.

U.S. Senators Pat Toomey, R-Pennsylvania and Amy Klobuchar D-Minnesota introduced bipartisan legislation, Thursday, March 7, to permanently repeal the 2.3 percent medical device tax.