The American College of Radiology (ACR) Board of Chancellors has elected Geraldine McGinty, M.D., MBA, FACR, as chair. McGinty is the first woman elected chair of the board in the nearly 100-year history of the ACR.

Three new studies presented at the 113th annual meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) highlight the effectiveness of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the diagnosis and management of prostate cancer. The studies concur that use of MRI in the diagnosis of prostate cancer is increasing, and brings added value to screening and surveillance.

A new kind of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) component in the shape of a glove delivers the first clear images of bones, tendons and ligaments moving together, a new study finds.

A novel positron emission tomography (PET) tracer developed by Korean researchers can visualize joint inflammation and could provide early diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis, a common autoimmune disease that causes chronic inflammation of joints and can lead to deformity and dysfunction. The study is reported in the featured basic science article in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine’s May issue.

Denver-based Matrix Analytics announced the company's rebrand to Eon. The rebrand marks the expansion of Eon's offerings beyond LungDirect to a suite of software solutions that will help improve the treatment of complex conditions of any kind. LungDirect, which will be rebranded to EonDirect, is the first and only cloud-based software application for lung cancer screening and incidental nodule management that integrates seamlessly with hospital electronic medical records (EMRs), according to Eon.

Having breast cancer placed a significantly greater financial strain on black women than white women, according to a study by researchers at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.

On May 30, 2018, the American College of Radiology (ACR) Data Science Institute (DSI) and the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) will hold the Spring 2018 Data Science Summit: Economics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Health Care. The summit will be hosted at the SIIM 2018 Annual Meeting, May 31-June 2 in National Harbor, Md.

Imaging Technology News (ITN) was honored with a pair of National Bronze Azbee Awards for editorial excellence at the 2018 American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) Azbee Awards of Excellence banquet in Washington, D.C. Both ITN awards were in recognition of the efforts of Contributing Editor Greg Freiherr — in the Regular Column, Contributed category for Freiherr’s monthly column “The Last Read,” and in the Online Video News category for his Technology Report: Enterprise Imaging from the 2016 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting.