Novel genetic assessments for cancer patients: where does medical imaging stand in the future of personalised medicine?

As our understanding of genetics in cancer care improves, the role of personalised medicine for patients continues to grow. With the increasing emergence of novel technologies for patient assessment, such as the evaluation of circulating tumour DNA, we must reflect on the potentially changing role that medical imaging will play in the future of optimal patient care.

Positron emission tomography: Evolving modalities, radiopharmaceuticals and professional collaboration.

Positron emission tomography (PET) as an imaging modality has undergone considerable innovation over the past few decades. Hybrid anatomical and functional imaging has become commonplace (initially PET/CT but now also PET/MRI) with improvements in imaging technology continually delivering studies with increasing diagnostic accuracy and decreasing radiation dose to the patient. More and more radiopharmaceuticals have emerged from the research sphere into clinical practice, with the traditional PET workhorse tracer F-FDG accompanied by a range of novel radiopharmaceuticals with specific molecular targets.

Female representation in radiology subspecialty interest groups in Australia and New Zealand.

Introduction: Women comprise 31% of the Australian and New Zealand radiology workforce, and 35% of radiology trainees. To date, there has been no study of female representation within clinical radiology subspecialties in Australia and New Zealand. This study aims to quantify female representation among the clinical radiology subspecialty interest groups (SIGs) in Australia and New Zealand.

Navigating the glass labyrinth: Addressing gender diversity in Australian and New Zealand representative radiology leadership.

Introduction: Gender inequity among representative leadership in Clinical Radiology is a global issue, with the lack of gender diversity in leadership even more marked when compared to workforce representation. Women leaders face a disproportionate magnitude of seen and unseen challenges to leadership engagement and progression when compared to men (a 'glass labyrinth'), which is likely contributing to this discrepancy. The aim of the study was to examine and reflect on the state of gender diversity in representative leadership within the RANZCR Faculty of Clinical Radiology.

Medical imaging education opportunities for junior doctors and non-radiologist clinicians: A review.

Medical imaging plays a critical role in clinical decision-making across disciplines, and as such, there is frequent need for non-radiologist clinicians to interact with medical imaging. This review examines the literature about the delivery of medical imaging education to non-radiologist clinicians, spanning junior doctors, advanced trainees and specialists. Knowledge of medical imaging among non-radiologist clinicians is paramount to the quality of patient care, with calls for formal implementation of radiology education into non-imaging specialty training programmes.

Is 67gallium dead? A retrospective review of 67gallium imaging in a single tertiary referral centre.

Background: [67Ga]Ga-citrate scanning has been used to investigate patients with known or suspected infection for over 50 years, continuing to maintain a clinical niche in many centres. The introduction of single photon emission tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) in addition to planar imaging has improved the specificity of diagnosis.

Aim: To examine the experience of modern [67Ga]Ga-citrate scanning in a single tertiary referral centre, considering the diagnostic yield of the study.

(67)Ga SPECT/CT accurately localized recurrent hepatic cyst infection in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.

Hepatic pyocyst is a rare but potentially life-threatening complication of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. With extensive hepatic cystic disease, localization of a pyocyst and targeted aspiration or drainage is often a diagnostic challenge. Two patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease and recurrent gram-negative sepsis were imaged with Ga SPECT/CT for investigation of an infective source.