The Lancet Medical Imaging and Theranostics Podcast

Did you know we can image whole organs in 3D at multiple scales? The modality that enables this is called Hierarchical Phase Contrast Computed Tomography (HiP-CT). Claire Walsh, a Principle Research Fellow at the University College of London (department of mechanical engineering), director of the Human Organ Atlas and co-director of the Multiscale X ray imaging lab at UCL and Giel Lemmens, PhD candidate at the University Hospital of Aachen, Institute of Pathology explain this modality to our Deputy Editor, Pierre Nauleau.

They shared their enthusiasm for this technique that started when imaging lung samples infected with COVID-19 but that could, in the future, reveal new anatomical details in organs, provide new insights in disease mechanisms, and open up new perspectives when combined with other imaging modalities. They also presented the Human Organ Atlas Hub and encouraged everyone to interact with these images. For more details, you can read their review in our September issue.

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmit/article/PIIS3117-4523(26)00015-8/fulltext

In this special episode, join the editorial team of The Lancet Medical Imaging & Theranostics as they discuss the journal, its mission, the inaugural issue, and what's coming next. Learn behind the scenes insights about launching a journal from developing our aims and scope to building an advisory board to our first publications. Please remember to subscribe and leave a review.

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What if brain MRI could be interpreted more like a child’s height or weight chart?

Dr Marjolein Dremmen and Professor Meike Vernooij from Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands join Ankita Das to discuss their Article “Neuroimaging growth curves in children and young adults aged 6–20 years in the Netherlands: a population-based cohort substudy of the Generation R Study” and how MRI-based growth charts could help clinicians move beyond a single snapshot to understand brain development over time.

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS3117-4523(26)00006-7/fulltext

Professor Matthias Preusser (Medical University of Vienna, Austria) and Professor Nathalie Albert (LMU University Hospital, Munich, Germany) join Editor-in-Chief Ali Landman to discuss the Nuclear Medicine Meets Neuro-oncology (NMN) Symposium, the value of multidisciplinary discussion across nuclear medicine and oncology, their Personal View: "Imaging-based classification of blood–brain barrier disruption in glioblastoma for patient selection in clinical trials: the NMN-BBB score" which emerged from the NMN Symposium in 2023, and how this new score, which semi-quantitatively measures the extent of blood-brain barrier opening within gliomas can be used to select patients for the right clinical trials and treatments.

For more on the NMN Symposium see: https://www.nmn-society.org/

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