AJR Podcasts

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.22.28603 Wenhui Zhou, MD, PhD reviews a recent AJR article which compares the efficacy and safety of delayed versus upfront thermal ablation in the treatment of colorectal cancer liver oligometastases. This comparison study shows upfront thermal ablation results in better progression-free-survival compared to delayed ablation, for patients with low tumor burden.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.22.28515 In this podcast, Shambo Guha Roy, MD discusses an article in which the authors studied the effect of different reconstruction kernels and slice thickness on chest CT image quality performed on photon-counting detector CT used in ultra-high-definition mode.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.22.28385 Locoregional therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma perform differently when compared by rates of complete pathologic necrosis of lesions. Juliet Alla, MD discusses a new AJR study that demonstrates improved rates of complete pathologic necrosis for patients with HCC who underwent thermal ablation and TARE therapies, when compared to those who received TACE. Special guest Dr. Zachary Berman, an interventional radiologist who specializes in locoregional therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma, joins to discuss the implications for clinical practice.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.22.28323 Jesi Kim, MD discusses a recent AJR article that demonstrates the value of new metrics using dual energy CT to differentiate between an adrenal adenoma and non-adenoma.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.22.28231 Rachana Borkar, MBBS discusses a new AJR study which is the first to simultaneously compare radiologist's overall impression, ACR TI-RADS, and deep learning algorithm in differentiating benign and malignant thyroid nodules on ultrasound in children and young adults.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.22.28319 Aruj Chawla, MD provides an overview and discussion of an AJR article that discusses the possibility of using thin-slice reconstructions in a head-to-head comparison with existing reconstruction techniques to compare subjective image quality. Is there a possibility of streamlining workflows and eliminating thick reconstructions all together? The ideas proposed in this research hope to help pave the way.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.22.28320 Stephany Mazur, MD reviews a study on digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT)-guided versus digital mammography (DM)-guided biopsies of calcifications, demonstrating similar pathologic outcomes, with a decreased procedure time and radiation exposure for DBT guidance as compared to DM guidance.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.22.28233 Across practices, Eovist is used to differentiate focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH) from hepatic adenoma (HCA). Mohanned Alnammi, MD discusses how further research and new updates in HCA classification system, combined with new data from a recent AJR article shows how Eovist uptake occurs in these subtypes (namely B-HCA which has malignant potential).

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.22.28357 Eymen Ucisik, MD discusses an AJR article comparing opioid-exposed and unexposed fetuses in terms of 2D biometric measurements of the brain and additional pregnancy-related assessments on fetal MRI.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.22.28024 Mostafa Alabousi, MD discusses a retrospective trial by Dr. Taylor-Cho et al. that compared the performance of the contrast-enhanced in-phase Dixon sequence to three other routine clinical breast MRI sequences for biopsy clip detection.