Dear Pediatric Imaging Insider,
For many readers of this newsletter, the month of December is associated with Christmas, and Christmas, of course, is associated with the birth of a child.
How timely, then, that physicians at Charité University Hospital in Berlin captured the process of a fetus moving into the birth canal with MR images for the very first time. Click here to read about and see an image from this radiology first.
Speaking of MRI, life can be made safer for children with shunted hydrocephalus who need regular monitoring when brain MRI exams replace head CT scans. This is happening at Children's Medical Center in Dallas, with details reported as part of AuntMinnie.com's extensive RSNA meeting coverage.
And in more Pediatric Imaging Digital Community news, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has found a way to reduce the long-term effects of fluoroscopy procedures for young cardiac patients. Read the details from contributing writer Ed Susman, who attended the American Heart Association annual meeting.
An entire scientific session at the RSNA meeting focused on radiation dose reduction and the Image Gently initiative. AuntMinnie.com is starting its coverage with a report on how to measure radiation dose from a neck CT scan and predict the risk of thyroid cancer. Click here to read the article, which is provided to our Insider subscribers several days before it is published for our general readership.
Performing these calculations is important. This is confirmed by a different study from the University of Rochester, which you can read about by clicking here.
Finally, the American College of Radiology (ACR) and the RSNA are giving a timely holiday gift to any patient who has a radiology procedure. The organizations' launch of the Image Wisely campaign is the best form of flattery and recognition of the Image Gently awareness campaign's success. If you haven't read the details, click here to do so, and then pass this article along to your peers.
Happy holidays!
