The European Congress of Radiology 2023 industry exhibition featured more than 250 medical imaging vendors. Bhvita Jani, research manager at the healthcare market analysis firm Signify Research, attended the meeting and offered several takeaway observations.

Energy consumption reduction tactics could decrease greenhouse gas emissions owed to radiology while also saving departments tens of thousands of dollars every year. A team of experts at University Hospital Basel in Switzerland detailed their strategy for reducing their radiology department’s energy consumption on April 18 in a new paper in Radiology.

Evaluating the vascularity and elastography in suspicious Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System (TI-RADS) categories was recently proven an effective strategy for more accurately assessing thyroid nodules for malignancy.

Certain cancers remained associated with a wide range of incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) more than a decade down the road, according to a study of U.K. Biobank participants.

Automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) allows for reproducible breast imaging without variation based on which sonographer performs the exam. It also can help centers where they are short on qualified breast sonographers.  Breast ultrasound can help identify cancers, or benign cysts, even in women with very dense breast tissue.

While out-of-pocket costs (OOPCs) have largely been eliminated for screening mammography, they still serve as financial barriers to patients undergoing subsequent diagnostic tests, according to results from a retrospective cohort study.

Check out this episode of HealthWatch that covers the cardiovascular impact of low and moderate dose radiation, coffee’s effect on heart function, COVID-19 testing in long-term care facilities, and the link between delirium after surgery in older adults and subsequent dementia.

Compared with standard fractionation, hyperfractionated intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) could significantly increase overall survival, as well as reduce the rate of severe late complications in patients with locally advanced recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma.