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Researchers have used MRI to illuminate the effect of hypertension on cerebral small vessel disease-related brain structures, finding that these effects differ by patient sex and age at diagnosis.

The study results could help identify sex-specific neuroimaging biomarkers that might inform clinical practice and public health guidelines in the management of hypertension and brain structural changes. Take a look at our featured article for more details.

After you've read that story, check out our coverage of a study that suggests that MRI performs comparably to 68Ga PSMA PET/CT for prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment tracking and another that found that per-patient grouping for liver tumor status based on LI-RADS and treatment response shows low negative predictive value on MR imaging for detecting residual or untreated tumors.

We're also highlighting research from the recent San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium that suggested that restriction spectrum imaging (RSI) is a suitable method for evaluating neoadjuvant therapy response early for breast cancer. RSI is a relatively new diffusion-weighted MR technique.

Finally, take a look at our MRI coverage from RSNA, including the following:

• A report on radiologist reading trends for cardiac MRI
  
  
• How quantitative MRI shows how muscles in the neck are involved in primary headaches and how AI-assisted DWI illuminates differences in the brains of children with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
  
  
• What vessel wall MRI data suggest regarding men with type 2 diabetes and brain plaque burden
  
  
• Using MRI volumetric analysis based on a deep-learning segmentation algorithm to assess intracranial and white-matter volumes in patients with Parkinson's disease
  
  
• How combining radiomic features extracted from brain MRI exams with clinical ones helps predict poor neurodevelopment in preterm newborns
  
  
• A study that describes how injections of mesenchymal stem cells in patients with knee osteoarthritis can improve clinical symptoms
  
  
• A roundup of expert tips and tricks on MRI safety

Our MRI content area keeps you current on the modality's up-and-coming applications. We invite you to check it out regularly, and, as always, if you have MRI topics you'd like us to consider, please contact me.