Dear AuntMinnie Member,
Today I'm pleased to bring you the news you've been waiting for all year -- the Minnies are now accepting nominations!
The Minnies is AuntMinnie.com's annual awards event that recognizes excellence in radiology. Now in its 21st year, the Minnies includes categories ranging from Most Influential Radiology Researcher and Most Effective Radiology Educator to Scientific Paper of the Year and Hottest Clinical Procedure. Also included are product-based categories like Best New Radiology Device, Best New Radiology Software, and Best Radiology Mobile App.
We derive the list of Minnies candidates from our members, and that's where you come in. This is your chance to let us know who you think deserves recognition, whether it's a mentor you studied under, a colleague who puts in extra hours, or a scanner or software application that has delighted you.
You can submit your nominations by filling out a short survey, or by going to minnies.auntminnie.com. And let your colleagues, acquaintances, friends, and family know that this is their chance to make their voices heard!
SNMMI Image of the Year
Midsummer isn't usually the peak of conference season in radiology, but of course there's nothing normal about 2020. We've had several conferences underway this past week, including the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) meeting and ECR -- both taking place virtually.
The SNMMI conference traditionally ends with the selection of the Image of the Year, and 2020 was no exception. This year's winning image was a PET scan with a pair of F-18-based radiotracers designed to demonstrate tau and amyloid pathology. The scans show that the brains of some individuals -- dubbed "super-agers" by the authors -- had much less tau and amyloid buildup than other individuals.
A wealth of fascinating research was presented at SNMMI 2020, including a study in which PET/MRI was used to find the location of chronic pain in individuals and research in which a copper-64-based radiotracer was used to image patients with glioblastoma.
In other news, researchers from a nuclear medicine department in New York City described how their facility handled the COVID-19 outbreak, while SNMMI 2020 President Dr. Vasken Dilsizian discussed how recruiting medical students is the key to nuclear medicine's future.
Get these stories and more coverage of SNMMI 2020 in our Molecular Imaging Community.
News from ECR 2020
ECR is the other major conference going on this week, with online sessions running through Sunday.
In a Thursday talk, Dr. Luis Martí-Bonmatí, PhD, from Valencia, Spain, discussed what's needed from radiologists and data scientists to expand the use of artificial intelligence in clinical practice. And in a Wednesday plenary lecture, Dr. Marie-Pierre Revel from Paris discussed lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic -- which she said has been the most serious public health emergency since the Spanish flu of 1918.
For more coverage of ECR 2020, be sure to visit our sister site, AuntMinnieEurope.com.
