Providers at Marshfield Clinic Health System (MCHS) in Marshfield, Wisconsin, utilized existing DICOM infrastructure to build software that improved its non-radiology imaging quality, access and costs, according to a study published Sept. 4 in the Journal of Digital Imaging.

Researchers using fMRI have found medical marijuana may significantly relieve chronic nerve pain, according to research published online Sept. 5 in Neurology.

Stony Brook University in New York will display a plaque posthumously honoring Paul Lauterbur, MD, whose work led to the development of the MRI, in its new engineering building. The university also named a campus street after the late chemist, according to a news release.

A Pennsylvania woman credits her early detection of breast cancer to a combination of ultrasound and mammography testing of her dense breast tissue, according to a report by the Scranton Times-Tribune in Pennsylvania.

New research published in Scientific Reports details the accuracy of optical microscope technology in identifying malignant brain tumors.

Quantifying liver surface nodularity (LSN) from CT scans can accurately and quickly identify clinically significant portal hypertension in cirrhosis patients, according to a Radiology study.

Last year, the NHS spent $150 million outsourcing patient scans to cope with the radiologist shortage, according to a 2017 clinical radiology U.K. workforce census report released Wednesday, Sept. 5, by the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR).

A machine learning platform accurately predicted mortality in patients with heart disease, outperforming models created by medical experts, according to an Aug. 31 study in PLOS One.

It’s a great time to be a radiologist. Imaging technology is advancing, jobs are plentiful and wages are healthy, wrote a pair of radiologists in a Sept. 4 Radiology commentary. At the same time, costs are rapidly increasing.

The ability to walk upright on two feet required millions of years of evolution, and even today humans are not perfectly adapted to bipedalism, argued authors in a recent Academic Radiology perspective.