Clinical Radiology Podcast

We will speak with Dr Nisha Sharma as editor of the Breast Imaging Special Issue on topics including technological advances and standardisation of care. She works as the Director of Breast Screening and is the clinical lead for Breast Imaging as well as the Lead Clinician Radiology at Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust.

We will be speaking with Dr Daniel Kim who has written on his work using artificial intelligence and deep learning to aid fracture detection on wrist radiographs.

We will speak with Dr Ashley Shaw as editor of the Endocrine Virtual Special Issue. He is a consultant radiologist and medical director of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as well as deputy editor of Clinical Radiology.

We will speak with Dr Nisha Sharma as editor of the Breast Imaging Special Issue on topics including breast density and personalised imaging. She works as the Director of Breast Screening and is the clinical lead for Breast Imaging as well as the Lead Clinician Radiology at Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust.

We will be speaking with Dr Elizabeth Dick, lead for trauma and emergency radiology at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, president of the BSER and president elect of the ESER on bomb blast injuries, imaging and how to prepare your department for a major incident.

We will be speaking with Dr Christina Messiou, member of the RCR Academic Committee, a consultant radiologist at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and honorary faculty at the Institute of Cancer Research who has written Guidance on the use of patient images obtained as part of standard care for teaching, training and research.

We will be speaking with Dr Sanjeev Nayak, consultant neurointerventional radiologist regarding mechanical thrombectomy in acute ischaemic stroke.

In this podcast we speak with Dr Andrew McQueen who has co-authored a paper entitled Head and Neck Ultrasound: Technical advances, novel applications and the role of Elastography with Dr Kunwar Bhatia part of the Head and Neck Special Issue.

In this podcast we speak with Dr Lance Cope, lead author of the RCR audit looking at the compliance with UK guidelines for the prevention and detection of acute kidney injury in adult patients undergoing iodinated contrast media injections for CT and Dr Jane Belfield of the British Society of Urogenital Radiology on the RANZCR guidelines, Iodinated Contrast Media guidelines and their implementation in Radiology Departments.

We will be speaking with one of the Clinical Radiology Deputy Editors and the author of the Renal Masses Virtual Special Issue, Dr Michael Weston on how to tackle incidental renal masses.

In this podcast, we hear from Dr Simon Padley on the NICE guidelines Chest pain of recent onset: assessment and diagnosis (CG95) updated in November 2016 on changes in the requirement for cardiovascular CT.

In this podcast, we hear from Dr Bharucha on her paper Diagnostic Yield of FDG-PET/CT in Fever of Unknown Origin: A Systematic Review,Meta-analysis and Delphi Exercise. If you are interested to get involved please contact her by email at tehminabharucha@googlemail.com.

In this podcast, we hear from Dr Denis Remedios who has worked on the new iRefer guidelines (version 8). He tells us what is new, about the value and access to radiological investigations.

In this podcast, we hear from Dr Jain whose paper "Can acoustic radiation force impulse elastography be a substitute for liver biopsy in predicting liver fibrosis?" contributed to the Hepatobiliary Virtual Special Issue edited by Dr Albazaz and Dr Guthire.

In this podcast, we hear from several authors who have contributed to the Thoracic Special Issue edited by Dr Anand Devaraj. Firstly, we hear from Dr Tom Semple on Current and Future Approaches to Large Airways Imaging in Adults and Children, followed by Dr Joanna Moser on Radiation Dose Reduction Strategies in Thoracic CT and finally from Dr Mario Silva on Lung Cancer Screening with Low Dose Computed Tomography in Europe.

We speak with Dr Michael Paddock, radiology registrar and Dr Amaka Offiah, Reader in Paediatric Musculoskeletal Imaging and Honorary Consultant Paediatric Radiologist at the University of Sheffield who share their thoughts on their two part pictorial review on imaging and reporting considerations for suspected physical abuse (non-accidental injury) in infants and young children and share their expertise on fracture dating.

We speak with Dr Trevor Cleveland, consultant interventional radiologist and Professor Phil White, Professor of Interventional and Diagnostic Neuroradiology who highlight some of the key issues and challenges in implementing mechanical thrombectomy for acute ischaemic stroke in the UK.

In this podcast, we discuss the findings of the recent RCR audit looking at the accuracy of reporting of emergency non-trauma abdominal CT and factors that may affect the report - comparisons made between onsite reporting consultants, registrars and offsite reporters with Dr Giles Maskell and Mr Iain Anderson.

We speak with Dr Mark Igra who highlights some of the key issues in his field and topics covered in the Virtual Special Issue on Neuroradiology.

We speak with Dr Giles Roditi who is the guest editor of this special issue and President Elect of BSCI/BSCCT. We also speak with Dr Michelle Williams about CT myocardial perfusion imaging, Professor Stephen Harden about the safe practice of CT coronary angiography and finally with Professor Paul Finn about cardiovascular MRI with ferumoxytol.