Florida’s Orange County is investing half a million dollars in a CT scanner for its local morgue, a move expected to speed up the autopsy process and facilitate criminal investigations without cutting into victims’ bodies, WFTV reported this week.

Subspecialization may be growing in radiology, but generalists are still responsible for the majority of invasive procedures performed by radiologists, according to new research published in Radiology.

Radiologists with less than a decade’s worth of experience and lower annual reading volumes are more likely to have higher mammography recall rates, according to research published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Male breast cancer is rare, making up less than 1 percent of all breast cancers. However, radiologists and all imaging professionals must have as much up-to-date information on the detection and treatment of male breast cancer as possible.

Lung cancer mortality rates among women around the world could increase by 40 percent by 2030, according to a new study published in Cancer Research. Breast cancer mortality rates, meanwhile, are expected to decrease by 9 percent.

Radiology has undergone large-scale subspecialization, causing some experts to question how the shift has impacted patient access to both basic and invasive procedures.

Changes to brain tissue due to “heading” a soccer ball are more damaging for female athletes than male counterparts, according to a new study published in Radiology.

A novel ultrasound technique known as acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging has proved useful in evaluating liver fibrosis, opening the field to a more universal method for measuring tissue repair, according to a Radiology study of 500 hepatitis B patients in Taiwan.