Ultrasound may not get as much love as other imaging modalities at RSNA, but its impact will still be felt at McCormick Place.
RSNA attendees will have the opportunity to find out how ultrasound compares to CT and MRI for diagnosing and monitoring numerous types of conditions, owing to the modality’s versatility.
Research to be highlighted in Chicago will explore emerging trends and potential uses in ultrasound that radiologists and practitioners in other medical areas can take back to their practices. This includes applications in musculoskeletal, pediatric, abdominal, and women’s imaging, among others. Studies on contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) and elastography will also be presented, including how CEUS detects ovarian malignancies and how elastography monitors transplanted livers.
In women’s imaging, ultrasound’s potential to detect endometriosis by consensus guidelines and supplemental breast imaging will also be explored. And pediatric imaging sessions will address ultrasound’s use for scanning children for gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and head and neck conditions.
And who could forget about AI and its use in ultrasound? Studies will show how AI improves the modality’s detection of pathologies and how AI can improve workflows for sonographers.
Those who work in interventional radiology will be interested in case reports and poster presentations displaying ultrasound-guided microwave and radiofrequency ablation techniques for treating malignancies and image-guided needle biopsies.
Those who attend the many plenary, scientific, and educational sessions at RSNA 2025 will also find out how and when ultrasound should be used in relation to MRI and CT for diagnosis. These include best practices in musculoskeletal (MSK), breast, abdominal, and pelvic imaging.
RSNA 2025 attendees can also attend in-depth education sessions exploring the latest innovations and techniques in sonography. These include case reports, updates in musculoskeletal imaging, pediatric and emergency medicine, ultrasound-guided interventional techniques and applications, AI and deep-learning models, contrast agent use, ob/gyn imaging, and more.
And sonography leaders can take practical knowledge back to their clinics with sessions on promoting sustainability, imaging informatics, quality improvement, and best practices.
And attendees can visit vendor-guided sessions and demonstrations on automated breast ultrasound (ABUS), elastography for liver imaging, and blood flow assessment, among others.
Keep reading for highlights in ultrasound coming from this year’s meeting, and you can also view the complete 2025 scientific and educational program by visiting the RSNA 2025 program site.
Microultrasound finds prostate cancers
Sunday, November 30 | 9:40 a.m.-9:50 a.m. | S1-SSGU01-5 | Room E353B
In this session, attendees will learn the benefits of using microultrasonography for detecting prostate cancer.
Sunday, November 30 | 11:20 a.m.-11:30 a.m. | S2-SSPD01-6 | Room E350
Session-goers will find out how a deep learning-based clinical support model that uses ultrasound imaging parameters can reduce unnecessary biopsies in pediatric head and neck patients.
CEUS helps find more ovarian malignancies
Sunday, November 30 | 2:30 p.m.-2:40 p.m. | S5-SSOB01-1 | Room S501
Attendees will learn about how contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) can significantly improve the detection of ovarian malignancies.
SWE evaluates allograft damage in pediatric liver transplants
Monday, December 1 | 8:10 a.m.-8:20 a.m. | M1-SSPD02-4 | Room S502
Attendees to this talk will find out how well 2D shear-wave elastography (SWE) can find liver allograft damage in pediatric liver transplant recipients.
AI makes MSK ultrasound workflows more efficient
Monday, December 1 | 1:30 p.m.-1:40 p.m. | M6-SSMK03-1 | Room E450A
Attendees in this session will find out how AI and language models can improve musculoskeletal (MSK) ultrasound workflows.
Ultrasound reveals features of RLN in thyroid patients
Tuesday, December 2 | 9:50 a.m.-10:00 a.m. | T3-SSHN02-3 | Room S403B
Research to be presented here will reveal how ultrasound shows structural features of the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) during radical thyroidectomy.
Color Doppler ultrasound can monitor success of varicocelectomy
Tuesday, December 2 | 10:10 a.m.-10:20 a.m. | T3-SSGU04-6 | Room E352
Here, attendees will learn about how color Doppler ultrasound can evaluate the effectiveness of microsurgical varicocelectomy.
Ultrasound detects inflamed tendons in thumb
Tuesday, December 2 | 10:20 a.m.-10:30 a.m. | T3-SSMK04-6 | Room S401
Session-goers will have the opportunity to learn about how ultrasound can be a noninvasive tool to find and characterize De Quervain tenosynovitis, in which the tendons connecting to the thumb become inflamed.
SRU criteria helps find endometriosis via pelvic ultrasound
Tuesday, December 2 | 10:20 a.m.-10:30 a.m. | T3-SSOB02-6 | Room S403A
Guidelines from the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound (SRU) can help recommend women for augmented pelvic ultrasound to evaluate for endometriosis, according to research to be presented in this session.
UGFF achieves high marks in measuring liver steatosis
Wednesday, December 3 | 9:50 a.m.-10:00 a.m. | W3-SSGI12-3 | Room E451B
Research in this session will highlight how ultrasound-guided fat fraction (UGFF) can quantify hepatic steatosis in patients with chronic liver disease.
Ultrasound comparable to CT for diagnosing nonruptured aneurysms
Thursday, December 4 | 8:30 a.m.-8:40 a.m. | R1-SSVA04-4 | Room S503
Attendees in this session will see how ultrasound compares to CT in diagnosing nonruptured visceral artery aneurysms.
DL ultrasound model classifies lymph node status in breast cancer patients
Thursday, December 4 | 1:50 p.m.-2:00 p.m. | R6-SSBR11-3 | Room S406A
Here, attendees will find out how a multimodal ultrasound-based deep-learning (DL) model can detect metastatic axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer patients.