Researchers form the Georgia Institute of Technology have comforting news for those who may drift into a daydream during an afternoon meeting. Such behavior, as seen via MRI, could be a sign of intellectual and creative abilities.

As internal medicine practitioners continue to increase their use of point-of-care ultrasound—aka POCUS—these physicians need to clarify how they intend to use the technology going forward.

Can the image-reconstruction principle behind computed tomography lend itself to rendering the most abundant protein in humans—collagen—in 3D at the molecular level? It surely can, according to researchers who are working on bringing the science and engineering about.

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) is partnering with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to beef up educational resources for health professionals wherever in the world they may be.

Getting alums of emergency-medicine training programs to evaluate their own practice skills can help directors of said programs strengthen their curriculum where it’s weak, according to a study published online Oct. 21 in Emergency Medicine Journal. Of interest to imaging observers, the researchers found that diagnostic ultrasound was one of several ER subcompetencies in need of attention at their institution.

Reviewing brain MRI of close to 4,000 children as part of an ongoing population-based study, European neuroradiologists and neuroscientists discovered at least one incidental finding in more than one-quarter of the cohort.

A semi-retired radiologist who gained renown in the 1990s by tracking the performance of rads working under his chiefship at Kaiser Permanente—and firing or reassigning those who didn’t measure up—has completed a study on how best to repair divots on golf courses.

Michelle Bautista, from Panama City, Florida, is challenging her community to raise enough funds to provide 100 women mammograms. In addition to raising funds, she is also offering free mammograms at her own clinic for the next month.