“He looked across the sea and knew how alone he was now. But he could see the prisms in the deep dark water and the line stretching ahead and the strange undulation of the calm.” So wrote Ernest Hemingway in The Old Man and the Sea. And what does this have to do with medical imaging? 

The CT Protocol team at the University of Wisconsin have created a methodology for measuring organizational adherence to standardized CT protocols, published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Based on finding outliers in a large pool of scanning data, the workflows can be scaled to any size practice and are intended to help imaging centers identify problems.

As the global population is steadily growing at a rate of 88 million people per year, researchers are using advanced nuclear methods to study pest resistance in corn that could help to make significant strides toward solving global food shortages.

Patient delays related to MRI exams seem to be contagious—and even capable of crossing the Atlantic. 

The U.S. is far from alone on the continent in perpetually arguing over healthcare delivery and putting MRI in the center of the spat. 

In an effort to empower female radiologists to take a commanding role in the field, RSNA presented a session entitled, “Women in Leadership,” at this year’s conference. 

Despite an infusion of tens of millions of governmental dollars intended to speed access to MRI exams, patients in British Columbia still endure the longest wait times—a median of 24 weeks—in all of Canada. 

Regardless of where President-elect Donald J. Trump tries to take the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a recently formed independent practice association in Central Florida plans to carry on with members’ plan to stand together as medical independents.