Tomography MDPI

07/08/2026

📢🆕 Check out our recently published paper "Baseline Body Composition Characteristics and Overall Survival in Young Women with Breast Cancer: Matched Case–Control Study Nested Within a Cohort"!

🔎📑 "Young women with breast cancer often have aggressive disease, and little is known about how body fat and muscle quality affect their survival. In this study, routine CT scans at diagnosis were used to measure different types of body fat and muscle in women aged 40 or younger. Higher fat stored within and around muscles and lower muscle quality were linked to worse long-term survival, whereas simple measures such as body mass index were not. These findings suggest that CT-based body composition may help radiologists and oncologists better assess risk and design future lifestyle or exercise interventions."

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07/08/2026

🔝This Friday we invite you to read our highly cited Review from section Abdominal Imaging!!
📖 Title: Complicated Liver Cystic Echinococcosis—A Comprehensive Literature Review and a Tale of Two Extreme Cases

🔎📑 "Cystic echinococcosis is a zoonotic parasitic disease that affects the liver in more than 70% of cases, and there is still an underestimated incidence in endemic areas. With a peculiar clinical presentation that ranges from paucisymptomatic illness to severe and possibly fatal complications, quality imaging and serological studies are required for diagnosis. The mainstay of treatment to date is surgery combined with antiparasitic agents. The surgical armamentarium consists of open and laparoscopic procedures for selected cases with growing confidence in parenchyma-sparing interventions. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is extremely useful for the diagnosis and treatment of biliary fistulas. Recent relevant studies in the literature are reviewed, and two complex cases are presented. The first patient underwent open surgery to treat 11 liver cysts, and during the follow-up, a right pulmonary cyst was diagnosed that was treated by minimally invasive surgery. The second case is represented by the peritoneal rupture of a giant liver cyst in a young woman who underwent laparoscopic surgery. Both patients developed biliary fistulas that were managed by ERCP. Both patients exhibited a non-specific clinical presentation and underwent several surgical procedures combined with antiparasitic agents, highlighting the necessity of customized treatment in order to decrease complications and successfully cure the disease."

📲 Read full review: https://brnw.ch/21x4L6C

07/08/2026

📢 Registration for the 1st International Online Conference on Tomography (IOCTG 2026) is closing soon! Don't miss this opportunity to connect with leading experts, exchange ideas with fellow researchers, and explore the latest developments and innovations in tomography. Join a global community dedicated to advancing the field and driving meaningful change. Attendance is free. Register today!

Discover more about these topics:
🧠 Neuroradiology
🫀 Cardiac Imaging
🫁 Thoracic Imaging
🩻 Gastro Abdominal Radiology
🤖 AI in Radiology

✅ Registration is FREE
📅 Registration Deadline: 7 September 2026
🔗 Registration Link: https://brnw.ch/21x4L6b
🌐 Conference Website: https://brnw.ch/21x4L6c
🔎 Inquiries: MDPI Conference

06/08/2026

📢 Meet Us at the ESMO Congress 2026
23–27 October 2026 | Madrid, Spain

As a global platform for oncology breakthroughs, ESMO is where the future of cancer research and clinical practice takes shape. 🚀🔬

📚 We're bringing 14 of our oncology and related journals to the event, including Current Oncology MDPI, Cancers MDPI, Diagnostics MDPI, Uro MDPI, Biomedicines MDPI, Onco MDPI, Diseases MDPI, Journal of Clinical Medicine MDPI, Tomography MDPI, Journal of the Oman Medical Association MDPI, Journal of Personalized Medicine MDPI, and more!

Whether you're an author, researcher, or clinician—we'd love to connect with you! 🤝✨

👉 Visit us at Booth to chat about your research, our journals, open access, or anything in between. ☕

📌 Announcement: https://brnw.ch/21x4IGs
🔗 Learn more about ESMO 2026: https://brnw.ch/21x4IGt

04/08/2026

🥳Tomography, Volume 12, Issue 7

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🌟Cover Story:
https://brnw.ch/21x4EVu

03/08/2026

💮 Start work week with Editor’s Choice and highly cited article
"A Review of Artificial Intelligence in Breast Imaging" published in Tomography‼️

📑 "With the increasing dominance of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, the important prospects for their application have extended to various medical fields, including domains such as in vitro diagnosis, intelligent rehabilitation, medical imaging, and prognosis. Breast cancer is a common malignancy that critically affects women’s physical and mental health. Early breast cancer screening—through mammography, ultrasound, or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)—can substantially improve the prognosis for breast cancer patients. AI applications have shown excellent performance in various image recognition tasks, and their use in breast cancer screening has been explored in numerous studies. This paper introduces relevant AI techniques and their applications in the field of medical imaging of the breast (mammography and ultrasound), specifically in terms of identifying, segmenting, and classifying lesions; assessing breast cancer risk; and improving image quality. Focusing on medical imaging for breast cancer, this paper also reviews related challenges and prospects for AI."

➡️ Read full Review here: https://brnw.ch/21x4D4K

With the increasing dominance of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, the important prospects for their application have extended to various medical fields, including domains such as in vitro diagnosis, intelligent rehabilitation, medical imaging, and prognosis. Breast cancer is a common maligna...

31/07/2026

📢 Don't miss our cited publication: "Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Forearm in Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1"‼️

📝 "Myotonic dystrophy type 1 causes weakness, impaired movement, and myotonia. Little is known about MRI measures that quantify muscle fat infiltration and inflammation of the arm in these patients. We examined how these MRI measures in the forearm were related to strength, functional ability, and myotonia. Muscle fat and inflammation were greatest in specific muscles, and the anterior forearm had more muscle fat infiltration than the posterior forearm. The MRI measures correlated with measures of strength, function, and myotonia. These quantitative MRI measures in the forearm show potential to monitor the effectiveness of treatments in these patients."

➡️ Find out more: https://brnw.ch/21x4AX8

Introduction: Myotonic dystrophy type 1 is the most prevalent muscular dystrophy in adults, characterized by weakness, impaired functional abilities, and myotonia. However, little is known about the relationship between quantitative MRI measures (fat fraction and T2 relaxation time) and clinical fin...

31/07/2026

📲 For the end of the work week, we invite you to read the article from our section Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging.
🦴Article Title: Clinical Potential of Artificial Bone Scintigraphy from Early-Phase Bone Scintigraphy Using Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation in Patients with Breast Cancer: A Single-Center Prospective Study

📑 "Bone scintigraphy (BS) is widely used to detect bone metastases in patients with breast cancer; however, conventional delayed-phase bone scintigraphy (dBS) requires a prolonged waiting time after radiotracer injection. This study evaluated whether artificial intelligence (AI) could generate images comparable to dBS using early-phase bone scintigraphy (eBS) acquired shortly after injection. Artificial bone scintigraphy (aBS) images demonstrated improved bone-to-soft tissue contrast and overall image quality compared with eBS while preserving lesion-related information comparable to dBS. Although these findings do not support replacement of dBS for definitive diagnosis, they support the feasibility of aBS as an assistive delayed-phase-like image generation approach from earlier-acquired BS and provide a basis for future studies evaluating its clinical utility."

➡️ Read full article: https://brnw.ch/21x4APY

30/07/2026

📢 Don't miss our recently published article below!
🔬 Title: Optimizing Microbubble Reduction to Facilitate IVUS Guidance During Endovascular Radiofrequency Wire Procedures

📖 "Radiofrequency wires use energy to puncture dense tissue during medical procedures. When radiofrequency energy is applied, bubbles form that block intravascular ultrasound imaging, making it difficult to see and guide the wire accurately. This study tested different methods to clear these bubbles using a bovine liver tissue model. The most effective approach used an external ultrasound probe, which reduced bubble interference by 33% and improved visualization of the wire tip. These findings suggest that widely available ultrasound equipment could improve guidance during radiofrequency wire procedures, though more testing is needed to confirm effectiveness in patients."

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➡️ https://brnw.ch/21x4yj6 ⬅️

30/07/2026

🎉 Check out article below published in Tomography!
☢️ Title: 3D Imaging of Proton FLASH Radiation Using a Multi-Detector Small Animal PET System

🔎 "Ultra-high dose-rate FLASH radiotherapy has emerged as a promising paradigm in radiation oncology. However, its physical and radiobiological mechanisms remain incompletely understood. In this study, we investigated a PET system equipped with 12 detector panels to analyze the distribution of PET events during and immediately after irradiation of a proton FLASH beam, validate these events using Monte Carlo simulations, and assess the system’s 3D localization performance. The system demonstrated the ability to reliably capture PET signals both during and after beam delivery, enabling accurate coincidence detection and having the potential to support real-time monitoring of proton FLASH beam-induced positron-emitting nuclei."

Read full article below:
👉 https://brnw.ch/21x4y99 👈