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Week in Review: Norway gets tough on imaging overuse | Making money out of AI | Mobile app for radiation protection
Norway is the latest European country to reveal plans to tackle the growing problem of inappropriate imaging.
July 25, 2025
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How best can medical imaging staff learn about x-ray scattering techniques? Researchers from Finland think they’ve found a novel training solution.
July 24, 2025
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Who will get rich out of radiology AI?
Most productivity gains from AI will go to employers, vendors, and private-equity firms rather than employed radiologists, and as AI redefines roles, radiologists should seek equity, specialize, or pivot, according to a new opinion piece.
July 22, 2025
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Week in Review: Clampdown on unnecessary exams | CT pearls from Dublin | Dutch assess image quality
European governments are waking up to the urgent need to get tough on unnecessary and inappropriate requests for imaging, but ensuring the compliance of GPs and referring clinicians is a major obstacle.
July 18, 2025
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Belgium is embarking on a new scheme designed to reduce the number of unnecessary examinations, particularly CT scans, but will GPs and referring clinicians comply?
July 17, 2025
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Belgium moves ahead with novel radiology referral scheme
An initiative is underway in Belgium to improve the justification and appropriateness of radiology referrals. But will it succeed? Prof. Erik Ranschaert gives his opinion.
July 17, 2025
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Week in Review: Errors come under scrutiny | New advice on lung nodules | Tribute to Sarah Jenkins
For cardiac MRI scans, the expected error rate is around 5%, but initial findings from a U.K. audit showed a radiologist's discrepancy rate was a staggering 37%, BBC News has reported.
July 11, 2025
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Tragedy in Scotland puts focus on workplace culture
The tragic case of a neuroradiologist who died by suicide has cast light on the scale of the mental health difficulties faced by many doctors and the essential need to establish adequate safeguards to protect all employees.
July 8, 2025
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Week in Review: Leadership and radiology AI | Hospital doctor struck off | How AI depicts radiologists
Visionary leadership that fosters innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration is essential to achieve success in AI implementation.
July 4, 2025
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Report: Leadership proves central to integration of radiology AI
Successful AI implementation requires strong leadership and robust governance structures to oversee algorithm evaluation, deployment, and ongoing maintenance, according to a special report from a German-U.S. team.
July 3, 2025
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MRI safety panel unveils findings on patient death
An MRI scan that resulted in a patient's death deviated from national recommendations, a Finnish safety investigation has found.
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Abdominal pain? Consider fishbones
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Christiane Kuhl endorses DRG's new women’s health campaign
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Do young athletes with low back pain need advanced imaging?
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Structured reporting, AI improve chest x-ray workflows
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Art and radiology: Seeing beauty and value in images
By Philip Ward
“Radiological illustrations are more than medical images. They teach!” That’s the view of Dr. Harun Yildiz from Bursa, Turkey. In a Q&A interview, he elaborates on his passion for art.
November 20, 2025
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AI enables tissue matching for digital breast tomosynthesis
By Maryam Payne
Ahead of RSNA 2025, Elaitra has highlighted an AI product featured recently in a European Journal of Radiology study.
November 19, 2025
Example case demonstrating improved accuracy in lesion location with ViewFinder (VF) on versus VF off. The mediolateral oblique (MLO) view shows the source reference-standard annotation (red), while the craniocaudal (CC) images show individual radiologist annotations (blue) for both, ViewFinder ON and OFF, and the reference standard annotation (in red). Courtesy of Stephen Morrell, PhD, et al and EJR. (Note: For interpretation of the references to color in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the original version of this article.)
Gianfranco Gualdi breaks his silence
By Philip Ward
Prof. Gianfranco Gualdi, the senior radiologist from Rome who faces manslaughter charges over alleged malpractice, gave a presentation at a meeting held on 14 November. A video clip of him has appeared on social media.
November 18, 2025
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IAEA recommends global adoption of PSMA-PET
By Will Morton
A global trial sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) supports the adoption of prostate-specific antigen (PSMA) PET/CT into standard staging protocols.
November 18, 2025
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French group focuses attention on benign bone lesions
By Maryam Payne
Musculoskeletal radiologists from Lille have conducted a large study of nearly 600 benign bone lesions found in almost 500 patients.
November 17, 2025
Lesions with concave borders (arrows): (a, b) intraosseous abscess, (c) chondroblastoma, (d) Langerhans cell histiocytosis, and (e, f) metastasis (same patient). In (a) and (c), one concave border follows the shape of the growth plate.
Study finds gender differences in inappropriate imaging requests
By Maryam Payne
A Dutch study has pointed out that women are more likely than men to receive inappropriate diagnostic imaging requests.
November 17, 2025
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PSMA-PET effective for initial staging of prostate cancer
By Will Morton
Researchers from Bonn, Germany, have found that upfront PSMA-PET/CT has a major impact on treatment decision-making in suspected cases of prostate cancer.
November 14, 2025
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Gastric ultrasound can be used by novice examiners
By Amerigo Allegretto
With training, novice users of ultrasound can detect a full stomach in patients undergoing anesthesia, Swiss authors have reported.
November 14, 2025
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'The disease of kings' comes under intense scrutiny
By Edna Astbury-Ward, PhD
Imaging can play a central role in the management of gout, one of the most common inflammatory arthropathies in adults and the most common arthritis in men.
November 13, 2025
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fMRI exams of soccer fans' brains offer clues to the cause of fanaticism
By Kate Madden Yee
Functional MRI (fMRI) illuminates the phenomena of "in-group bonding and reinforcement of social identity," researchers noted.
November 12, 2025
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César Pedrosa: Still going strong at 93
By Liz Carey
Prof. César Pedrosa, the living legend from Madrid who turned 93 earlier this year, actively contributed to Spain's International Day of Radiology celebrations.
November 12, 2025
Nonagenarian Prof. César Pedrosa (front row) opened Friday's event.
ESR eBook now available in Ukrainian, Romanian, Hungarian
By Philip Ward
The ESR's free-to-download Modern Radiology eBook is now available in Ukrainian, Romanian, and Hungarian. Dozens of translators have worked tirelessly on the project, ESR noted.
November 11, 2025
Some of the translators of the ESR Modern Radiology eBook met during ECR 2025.
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