Illuminations

News From The International Society of Radiology

April 2024

Announcements

2023 Image Gently Butterfly Awards

Since the beginning of the Image Gently (r) campaign, the butterfly has been used as a symbol communicating both the soft touch and big effect - the Butterfly Effect.

Awardees were honored for their exceptional impact on the success of our efforts by being named recipients of the Butterfly Award.

ISR Represented at Asian Oceanian Congress of Radiology in Taipei

The ISR was well represented at the recent AOCR in Taipei. At a joint session, the Commission on Radiology Education Chair Dr. Geraldine McGinty spoke on "Building and Leading Effective Teams," ACR Radiology Leadership Institute Chief Medical Officer Dr. Frank J. Lexa spoke on "Leadership Development: What radiologists need to do to succeed," and Past President of the Taiwan Radiologic Society Dr. Cheng-Yu Chen spoke on "The Journey - Navigating the evolving landscape of radiology."

Slides can be viewed here and here for Drs. McGinty & Lexa's presentations.

Congratulations are in order for past ISE Executive Committee member Dr. Evelyn Ho who received the AOSR's Gold Medal award, its highest honor.

The ISR is grateful to both the AOSR leadership and the host Society, the Taiwan Radiologic Society for this opportunity to build community and learning.

Open Access Education Articles

Green radiology: How to develop sustainable radiology

Decreasing energy, water, and helium usage; properly recycling and/or disposing of waste and residues (even contrast media); minimizing the environmental impact of ionizing radiation; and promoting ecofriendly radiology practices are the key strategies to go green in radiology.

Multimaterial decomposition in dual-energy CT for characterization of clots from acute ischemic stroke patients

Nowadays, there is no method to quantitatively characterize the material composition of acute ischemic stroke thrombi prior to intervention, but dual-energy CT (DE-CT) offers imaging-based multimaterial decomposition.

Is PET Radiomics Useful to Predict Pathologic Tumor Response and Prognosis in Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer?

This study investigated whether radiomic features extracted from pretreatment [18F]FDG PET could improve the prediction of both histopathologic tumor response and survival in patients with locally advanced cervical cancer (LACC) treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery compared with conventional PET parameters and histopathologic features.

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