Musculoskeletal Imaging: Current Practice and Future Directions
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Terence P. Farrell; John P Walsh; John P. Hynes; Niamh Catherine Adams; Eoin C. Kavanagh; Sarah Kate Eustace
- Source
- Seminars in Musculoskeletal Radiology. 22:564-581
- Subject
- Diagnostic Imaging
medicine.medical_specialty
Musculoskeletal imaging
business.industry
MEDLINE
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
Review article
Imaging modalities
body regions
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Current practice
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Health care
medicine
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Medical physics
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Molecular imaging
business
Forecasting
- Language
- ISSN
- 1098-898X
1089-7860
Musculoskeletal (MSK) radiology plays a crucial role in the diagnosis and management of MSK disorders and has rapidly expanded in tandem with advances in technology and improved access to imaging. Although anatomical imaging remains the mainstay of MSK radiology, significant progress has been made in functional and molecular imaging as well as in hybrid imaging with an expanding armament of technologies becoming available or in development. A vast array of research is occurring in MSK imaging, and this review article highlights some of the most promising current and future clinical applications in development in each of the major imaging modalities. Identifying the clinical utility of these technologies in an era of rising health care costs is an important challenge for MSK radiologists.