WAYNE, NJ—Network Radiology, a leading independent radiology center and teleradiology service provider in Cleveland, Ohio, is using Exa™ PACS/RIS from Konica Minolta Healthcare America, Inc. to help increase productivity and enable high reading volumes for both business applications.

Older patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) marked mainly by memory loss are most accurately evaluated with intensive neuropsychological test batteries. However, if such mental decline progresses to full-on Alzheimer’s disease, the patients are better monitored with the quicker, less costly Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE).

Rare but aggressive, cancers of the bile duct can be added to the list of carcinomas for which PET scanning with the radiotracer 18F-FDG adds diagnostic and/or prognostic value, according to the authors of a study running in the August edition of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Transabdominal ultrasound is an excellent tool for follow-up imaging of larger cysts on or in the pancreas, although its performance falls off as surveilled known lesions decline in size, according to a study published online Aug. 1 in Abdominal Radiology.

Despite known risks and unknown benefits, many older survivors of breast cancer with short life expectancy go for surveillance mammography every year. Meanwhile, relatively few with robust life expectancy don’t seem to bother. At the very least, the odd juxtaposition calls for guidelines to tailor care for both these older cancer-survivor subsets.

As emergency CT has grown in use, incidental findings in trauma patients have multiplied. No surprise there, but a study conducted at a level-1 trauma center in New York City suggests that documentation of incidental findings may be seriously lacking, with obvious potential implications for follow-up care.

A new radiologist gets a nice writeup in a contributor section at the Huffington Post. Kimberly Isakov, MD, recently graduated Yale Medical School and is headed for residency at an undisclosed provider organization in New York City.

Members of the radiology department at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore have tried two simple means of reducing recall rates in screening mammography and found both effective. What’s more, neither intervention hurt the team’s performance on cancer detection—and both are replicable by other breast-imaging operations.