Dear AuntMinnie Member,
In this edition of our MRI Insider, we’re highlighting a new podcast featured on the AuntMinnie Podcast Network that will investigate the 2025 fatal MRI accident in New York. The podcast host is Tobias “Toby” Gilk, an outspoken voice for MRI safety standards, and is called “The Invisible Force.” Click here to listen.
After tuning in to that, take a look at our coverage of a study that suggests motion on MRI exams inordinately affects elderly, male, obese, and Black patients. Next, read our article on the National Government Services (NGS)’s open comment period on a proposed policy for automated detection and quantification of brain MRIs. We’ve also got a column contributed by Italian radiology technician Giuseppe Scappatura on whether patient anxiety influences MRI contrast extravasation.
Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute (HPI) researchers have found that children are exposed to more imaging radiation at non-children’s hospitals, which underscores the need for “ongoing evaluation of pediatric imaging practices across all hospital types.” And the RSNA recently released what it is calling the Lumbar Degenerative Imaging Spine Classification (LumbarDISC) dataset, the largest publicly available adult MRI lumbar spine dataset for degenerative disease, according to the society.
For more recent MRI news, check out the list below:
- MRI technique shows promise for diagnosing ‘at risk’ MASH patients
- Presurgical mpMRI helps predict chronic kidney disease risk
- Breast MRI shows higher BPE levels in Black women
- Key neurologic imaging patterns of recreational drug use in the ED
- LLMs help automate PI-RADS classification from MRI reports
At AuntMinnie, we offer up-to-date coverage of MRI’s many applications via our MRI content area. We invite you to visit it regularly. And as always, if you have MRI topics you’d like us to consider, please contact me.
Kate Madden Yee
Senior Editor
AuntMinnie.com