In locales and cultures as far removed from one another as Ethiopia and Pennsylvania, trainee radiologists finely—and similarly—honed their technical skills in pediatric ultrasound after viewing brief web-based tutorials on image acquisition.

Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals announced Aug. 24 it has reached an agreement to sell its nuclear imaging business to IBA Molecular (IBAM) for $690 million.

It’s rare to see radiological research making national front-page news. But the Zika virus has emerged as a top enemy of the national health, and RSNA’s Radiology has published some heart-stopping images inside a free study that went up Aug. 23 on the journal’s website.

Average-risk women with low breast density who get screened for breast cancer every three years share a trait in common with higher-risk women with high breast density who get screened every year. Both groups will maintain a similar or better balance of benefits and harms than average-risk women who get screened every other year.

An innovative use of RNA sequences has allowed scientists from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to track connections between individual neurons in the brain, according to a study published in Neuron. Invented by Professor Anthony Zador, MD, PhD, the technique is called Multiplexed Analysis of Projections by Sequencing (MAPseq). 

Adding annual screening tomosynthesis to 2D mammography beginning at age 40 is cost-effective compared with 2D mammography alone, according to a study published online Aug. 23 in the American Journal of Roentgenology. 

When an MRI turned up cancer in four parts of his brain a year ago, Jimmy Carter thought his end was near. 

Largely owing to the diagnostic prowess of ever-improving imaging technologies—mainly CT, ultrasound and MRI—more than 470,000 women and 90,000 men were overdiagnosed with thyroid cancer between 1987 and 2007 across 12 bellwether countries.