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Molecular Imaging
PET develops key clinical role in neuroendocrine tumors
Dual PET imaging and the NETPET score are proving increasingly useful in the prognosis and treatment of neuroendocrine tumors.
February 19, 2026
Dual PET imaging in Case Two illustrates a patient with discordant disease. FDG PET (b & d) shows FDG uptake in tail of pancreas primary lesion (yellow arrow), as well as multiple hepatic metastases (yellow boxes), with enlarged liver span. DOTATATE PET on left (a) shows several hepatic metastases that do not demonstrate DOTATATE uptake above background of liver parenchyma. The liver lesions in (c) demonstrate moderate FDG uptake in liver lesions, with no corresponding DOTATATE avidity (white box) or central photopenia (white arrow). This discordance in dual PET imaging corresponds to a NETPET score of 5. This suggests de-differentiated disease and a less favorable prognosis. The patient was not suitable for Lutate treatment and received chemotherapy.
Digital X-Ray
'The disease of kings' comes under intense scrutiny
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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Womens Imaging
EUSOBI: Positron emission mammography demonstrates worth
Positron emission mammography is proving useful in the presurgical assessment of invasive lobular carcinoma, researchers reported at the European Society of Breast Imaging (EUSOBI) annual meeting.
October 22, 2025
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Molecular Imaging
Will AI lead to merger of radiology and pathology?
A strategic merger of radiology and pathology into a unified specialty is vital, two experts have warned in an 8 October commentary in European Journal of Radiology AI.
October 9, 2025
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Revealed: The cause of CT safety incident in Belgium
A single bottle of contaminated contrast agent was the cause of eight patients becoming unwell after undergoing CT in Dendermonde, East Flanders. Bracco has now issued a statement.
September 3, 2025
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Womens Imaging
Swedish team advocates daily QC checks for mammography
Automated daily quality control (QC) implementation can transform mammography safety and efficiency through the early detection of equipment issues, researchers have reported.
August 6, 2025
Daily quality control of mammography equipment with a 40 cm plexiglass block covering the entire detector. Photo courtesy of Tanny Visanuyanont et al and presented at EuroSafe 2025.
CT
Strategic plan for radiology leads to strong protests in France
A report by two French bodies has led to an angry response from private radiologists, who claim the authors want to "establish a health dictatorship" and support "the death of private medicine."
July 21, 2025
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Ukraine hosts international cardiovascular conference
Further evidence of Ukraine’s ongoing commitment to medical education was provided by the two-day conference “Modern Cardiovascular Interventions: Lviv Forum.” It attracted around 360 onsite attendees and 870 virtual delegates.
June 20, 2025
Attendees from across Ukraine were onsite for the congress. All photos courtesy of Heart Center Lviv and Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University.
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New evidence emerges on U.K. radiology’s workforce crisis
Two major reports published today reveal the huge workforce problems facing the U.K. radiology and oncology sectors and the ever-greater reliance on outsourcing.
June 5, 2025
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MRI proves value in pelvic floor disorders
MR defecography now plays a central role in the preoperative evaluation of patients with pelvic floor dysfunction, award-winning researchers have reported.
May 26, 2025
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When war hits your radiology department
More than 2,881 attacks on healthcare in Ukraine have been documented since February 2022. At ECR 2026, a radiologist from Kyiv walked a room of European colleagues through what that actually means for a department, and what to do before it happens to yours.
'We can see what the clinicians cannot see, and especially sarcopenia and osteoporosis are under-reported and under-diagnosed,' said Kerensa Beekman, MD, PhD, of Radboud University Medical Center.
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ECR: The scan you've already done: Body composition's missing picture
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When war hits your radiology department
By Claudia Tschabuschnig
More than 2,881 attacks on healthcare in Ukraine have been documented since February 2022. At ECR 2026, a radiologist from Kyiv walked a room of European colleagues through what that actually means for a department, and what to do before it happens to yours.
March 26, 2026
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ECR: The scan you've already done: Body composition's missing picture
By Claudia Tschabuschnig
The argument for body composition in radiology is not about acquiring new data, but about reading what's already there. At ECR 2026, two sessions made the case that every CT scan already holds information that could change a patient's prognosis. Most of it is never reported.
March 25, 2026
'We can see what the clinicians cannot see, and especially sarcopenia and osteoporosis are under-reported and under-diagnosed,' said Kerensa Beekman, MD, PhD, of Radboud University Medical Center.
Study finds that AI fails to speed lung cancer diagnosis
By Will Morton
AI prioritization of chest x-rays requested by U.K. primary care had no significant impact on the lung cancer pathway.
March 24, 2026
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New FAPI tracer shows promise across 19 solid tumor types
By Will Morton
PET using fibroblast activation protein inhibitor (FAPI) tracers has emerged as a robust imaging tool for detecting solid tumors.
March 23, 2026
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42 countries, 1 standard, and radiology leading the way
By Claudia Tschabuschnig
It is collaboration, not legislation, that drives European radiology training forward, according to the joint ESR-UEMS session "Harmonia" at ECR 2026.
March 23, 2026
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CDSS improves outcomes among stroke patients
By Kate Madden Yee
Use of a clinical decision-support system (CDSS) with stroke sufferers decreased the incidence of new vascular events at three months.
March 20, 2026
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Radiology's carbon problem needs more than good intentions
By Claudia Tschabuschnig
Healthcare generates 4.4% of global emissions. Radiology accounts for a notable slice. At ECR 2026, three perspectives on the same problem showed exactly why change is slow and where the real leverage is.
March 20, 2026
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Mammography AI approach finds more breast cancers, reduces workload
By Amerigo Allegretto
An AI approach that excludes low-risk mammograms from radiologist reading led to more cancers being found.
March 19, 2026
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Making data speak the same language: Harmonization and health data
By Claudia Tschabuschnig
Europe's imaging data is vast, fragmented, and increasingly powerful. Two sessions at ECR 2026 asked the same question from opposite ends: How do you make it usable?
March 19, 2026
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Training, standards needed for radiographers to perform POCUS
By Amerigo Allegretto
Training, standardization, and careful management are needed for radiographers to regularly use point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in imaging departments.
March 19, 2026
Thérèse Herlihy, PhD, at ECR 2026 discusses the state of radiographer-performed POCUS and what's needed for expanded scope of practice.
Radiographer judgment still essential in AI-assisted x-ray
By Maryam Payne
While AI by itself performed well, it lagged behind the radiographers using AI.
March 18, 2026
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Researchers optimistic on healthcare AI privacy risk fixes
By Maryam Payne
Privacy concerns with healthcare foundation models (FMs) can be mitigated through safeguards embedded into FM design.
March 16, 2026
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