For the last several years, artificial intelligence (AI) has represented the newest, most rapidly expanding frontier of radiology technology. Expo floors at all the major professional society meetings are full of vendors showcasing AI tools they have developed or integrated into their products, billed as efficiency and time-savings aids to help ease the workload of radiologists who are increasingly bogged down by vast amounts of data.

When it comes to the use of mammography skin markers in digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) or 3-D mammography, care has to be taken to use the correct markers. With many sites performing both a full field digital mammogram (2-D) and a 3-D exam at one time, many sites are using the markers that they have had for 2-D exams. What many radiologists did not realize is that the older markers are not ideal for the 3-D images.

Windsong Radiology Group is a New York-based radiology practice with five locations. Recently, Windsong participated in a controlled commercial release (CCR) of the MEDRAD Stellant FLEX Injection System, the newest MEDRAD CT Injection System.

Iodine-based CT contrast ready for scanning with a Canon Aquilion One 320-slice CT system at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in the Chicago suburbs.

Iodine-based contrast agents used in computed tomography (CT) and catheter-based angiography have been implicated as a cause of contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN). This has raised concern in recent years, especially in renally compromised patients, and imagers are looking for ways to reduce the contrast media dose levels they use.
Physicians at North Shore University Hospital/Feinstein Institute for Medicine in Manhassett, N.Y., use a 3-D printer to assist with medical cases.
This 3-D printed spine recreation from the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research enables physicians to study varying degrees of curvature of the spine.
A variety of 3-D printed models displayed by Stratasys at a recent RSNA conference.
Anna Dussing

The advancement of medical technology offers a plethora of options for healthcare professionals and patients alike. New technologies and clinical trials are solving the way we treat diseases and interface with patients. Recent breakthroughs in three-dimensional printing (3-D) may have hit upon a solution for organ failure.1

As the largest provider of inpatient and outpatient services in New Jersey, Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack University Medical Center caters to a diverse patient population.

The 775-bed, nonprofit teaching and research hospital tends to everyone from the elderly to newborn infants. But as any clinician will tell you, patient needs vary not only according to their disease states, but according to their age or life stage, as well.

Siemens Healthineers earned FDA clearance in 2019 for the Mobilett Elara Max mobile X-ray system

As medical imaging technology continues to advance, the evolution of digital radiography (DR) or X-ray has increasingly moved the modality into the mobile space. DR is one of the most commonly used modalities in the world, with applications from emergency departments to orthopedic clinics, doctor’s offices and more.

See Possibilities Together is the theme for the Radiological Society of North America’s (RSNA) 105th meeting and scientific assembly, and this year invites attendees to experience the hands-on, cutting-edge technology of artificial intelligence (AI), 3-D printing and virtual reality … and a whole lot more. The meeting will take place at Chicago’s McCormick Place Dec. 1-6, 2019.


There were several interesting new trends in cardiovascular computed tomography (CT) imaging at the 2019 Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) meeting in July.
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