Will Morton

Portland

Editor at Aunt Minnie

I’m an editor at https://t.co/ebM1uH7ODi, a daily news website covering radiology and imaging.

Featured in: Favicon

auntminnie.com Favicon

baltimoresun.com Favicon

physicsworld.com Favicon

newsbreak.com Favicon

drbicuspid.com Favicon

bigissuenorth.com Favicon

scienceboard.net Favicon

auntminnieeurope.com Favicon

labpulse.com

Articles

SNMMI: New molecular imaging agent shows promise for detecting HCC

4 days ago | buff.ly | Amerigo Allegretto |Liz Carey |Will Morton

A new molecular imaging agent targeting glypican-3 (GPC3) has shown high sensitivity and specificity in detecting hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), according to research presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) annual meeting.
SNMMI: PET/MRI helps manage patients with chronic spinal pain

4 days ago | buff.ly | Will Morton |Amerigo Allegretto |Liz Carey

NEW ORLEANS – F-18 FDG-PET/MRI can identify previously unknown foci that generate chronic spinal pain and enable targeted interventions, according to a June 22 presentation at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2025 annual meeting. Fatemeh Rashidi, MD, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discussed a study involving 23 patients with chronic spinal pain refractory to several standard-of-care therapies who underwent simultaneous PET/MRI scans.
Video from SNMMI: Phillip Kuo on new Alzheimerâ€™s disease imaging guidelines

5 days ago | buff.ly | Amerigo Allegretto |Liz Carey |Will Morton

NEW ORLEANS -- In an interview at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging annual meeting, Phillip Kuo, MD, PhD, of the City of Hope in Duarte, CA, discussed new appropriate use criteria for amyloid and tau PET imaging in Alzheimerâ€™s disease patients.
SNMMI: Retreatment with Lu-177 PSMA-617 shows promise in mCRPC patients

6 days ago | auntminnie.com | Will Morton

NEW ORLEANS β Retreating prostate cancer patients with lutetium-177 radioligand therapy after they have completed their initial course appears to improve overall survival, according to a study presented June 21 at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2025 annual meeting.
SPECT/CT valuable after radiopharmaceutical therapy

6 days ago | auntminnie.com | Will Morton

NEW ORLEANS – Post-therapy SPECT/CT is invaluable for patients undergoing radiopharmaceutical therapy, according to a June 21 presentation Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2025 annual meeting. In a case series, the method significantly enhanced patient safety, optimized therapy regimens, and improved outcomes for patients, noted presenter Taylor Gillespie, a nuclear medicine clinical research leader at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
SNMMI: New PET tracers developed for imaging brain disorders

6 days ago | auntminnie.com | Will Morton

NEW ORLEANS – Two newly developed PET imaging agents are effective for identifying a highly expressed receptor in neurological and psychiatric conditions, according to a presentation at the 2025 Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) annual meeting. The histamine H3 receptor (H3R) regulates histamine synthesis and release in the central nervous system, which influences learning, memory, and sleep.
Brain MRI helps predict outcomes in cardiac arrest survivors

1 week ago | buff.ly | Amerigo Allegretto |Will Morton |Liz Carey

Quantitative brain MRI data appear to help clinicians forecast the effects of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest among those who survive it, a team from the University of Washington in Seattle has reported. The study results are promising, but more research is needed, wrote a group led by Thuhien Nguyen, MD. The findings were published June 19 in Neurocritical Care.
PET/CT metric improves staging of patients with lung cancer

1 week ago | auntminnie.com | Will Morton

Primary tumor F-18 FDG radiotracer uptake on PET/CT scans is an independent prognostic factor for survival in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), researchers in Seoul, South Korea, have reported. The finding is from an analysis of imaging of 2,972 patients and suggests that the measurement should be added to initial staging systems, noted lead author Wonseok Whi, PhD, of Sungkyunkwan University, and colleagues.
The mangling of medical English

1 week ago | buff.ly | Will Morton |Philip Ward |Maryam Payne |Amerigo Allegretto

If learning medicine is like learning a different language, then learning radiology is like learning an additional related language. A bit like learning Spanish and then having to learn Portuguese as well. Radiologists, therefore, have these three linguistic identities: normal language, medical lingo, and radiology-speak. Moreover, there is verbal radiology and there is dictated radiology. Radiologists subconsciously switch between these many times a day.
Educational intervention boosts rads' confidence in MRI safety decisions

1 week ago | buff.ly | Amerigo Allegretto |Will Morton |Liz Carey

A team of Cleveland Clinic researchers has found that implementing a modular educational intervention goes a long way toward improving radiologists' trust in their MRI-related safety decisions. A 12-week initiative increased confidence in MRI safety decisions in 95% of the almost 300 radiologists who participated, according to a team led by Alexander Scott, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. The group's findings were published June 16 in Abdominal Radiology.