Dear AuntMinnie Member,
The radiology community was stunned last month when a worker was killed while moving an MRI scanner at a hospital in Utah. While such industrial accidents involving MRI are rare, they can be fatal, according to a follow-up story by Editor Kate Madden Yee.
The accident occurred while the scanner was being moved from one floor to another at the hospital. Investigations into the accident are still underway, but it appears that the magnet came loose from a crane while being moved. Learn more about the challenges of moving MRI scanners in a new article in our MRI Community.
In other MRI news, learn about how functional MRI could show variations in how people respond to traumatic events, as well as how MRI with a diffusion-tensor imaging protocol could help predict an individual's genetic risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.
What patients know about radiation
How much do patients really know about radiation from medical imaging procedures? A new survey from Italy has some disturbing revelations.
Over half of patients surveyed didn't know that chest CT delivers more radiation than chest x-ray, while almost half thought MRI involved ionizing radiation.
While you're in our CT Community, learn about how researchers from South Korea used an image-retrieval search engine to improve diagnosis of interstitial lung disease, while a group from Colorado found that recent changes that expand who can receive CT lung cancer screening could help address healthcare disparities.
Medical displays and COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought major changes throughout society -- and radiology. One of these is the surge in remote reading, with radiologists increasingly likely to be interpreting images outside a centralized reading room.
How does this trend affect medical displays, which are key to the performance of radiologists? Find out in our latest special section, "Medical displays in the era of COVID-19." You'll learn about the shift to remote reading during COVID-19, and how the pandemic has created challenges in managing displays.
