Dear AuntMinnieEurope Member,
Important new evidence of the potential dangers of CT scans in children is being published in the Lancet this week. A group of authors from respected institutions in the U.K. and North America found that radiation exposure from two or three head CT scans in childhood can triple the risk of developing brain cancer, while five to 10 such scans may triple the risk of developing leukemia.
This study is likely to add to growing pressures on the global medical imaging community to justify pediatric CT examinations and to implement dose-reduction strategies. Go to our CT Digital Community, or click here.
The European Society of Radiology (ESR) is taking a stricter stance on plagiarism and scientific fraud. Its publications committee is now using special software to identify suspicious articles, and it's also clamping down on case reports and meeting abstracts. Copycats and cheats will be punished, ESR promises. Get the story here.
Turf battles over cardiac imaging are not new, of course, but they're becoming a bigger threat in many countries, including Russia. We interviewed Dr. Simon Matskeplishvili, PhD, about this hot topic. As well as being an eminent cardiologist, he's well-known in Russia for escaping from the Twin Towers on 9/11. Go to our Cardiac Imaging Digital Community, or click here.
Post-transplant evaluations are another important area for cardiac imaging, and Spanish and Italian researchers have looked closely at whether CT or MRI is the best modality to use for assessing these patients. To read about their findings, click here.
The 3rd Annual Scientific Symposium on Ultrahigh Field Magnetic Resonance takes place in Berlin on Friday. To mark the occasion, we invited Dr. Thoralf Niendorf to write about the latest developments in this emerging field. Visit our MRI Digital Community to learn more, or click here.
Researchers from Nottingham, U.K., have used 7-tesla MRI to scan the brains of patients suspected of having multiple sclerosis. They presented their findings at the recent American Academy of Neurology congress, and their work underlines the clinical potential of high-field MRI. Click here to find out more.
