The IASLC Lymph Node Map helps us accurately communicate lymph node involvement and options for workup in patients with lung cancer.

An overview of left ventricular heart failure, and tips for recognizing left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), left ventricular enlargement, and left atrial enlargement on imaging.

Learn the in’s and out’s of portable x-ray machines, radiography technologies, and how a portable CXR is performed.

Review the MR imaging sequences most often used in chest imaging, and the distinct clinical role of each sequence.

When is a CXR sufficient? When should you get a chest CT? When is a chest MRI the best option?

Learn how lung cancers are staged, and what you can provide in your interpretation to make staging more accurate and efficient.

Review the ways lung infections may present on imaging, a practical method for categorizing lung infections, and what your role as a radiologist is in their diagnosis.

A review of the role of the portable CXR during the workup of respiratory distress on the wards, and what referring providers may be looking for in your CXR interpretation.

Learn what to expect on imaging after lung cancer surgery and radiation therapy, and what to look out for.

Infamous for its breadth of presentations in the lungs and body, understand the cause of TB’s different imaging presentations and your role in its diagnosis.

Understand the specificity, limits, and role of imaging in the setting of distinguishing viral from bacterial lung infections.

With a strong understanding of the pathophysiology of lung transplant complications and when they occur, learn how to construct a simple strategy for diagnosis.

Suboptimally acquired CXRs cause more false positive calls, more false negative calls, and higher intra-reader and inter-reader variability.

A review of the six primary cardiac imaging modalities, how they’re used, and what their relative pros and cons are.

Understand the relationship between COPD, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and asthma and review their imaging features.

Review the differences between different non-small lung cancers and small cell lung cancer and how they behave. Understand the different imaging presentations of lung cancer.

Different morphological features of a nonspecific lung nodule influence our level of suspicion for malignancy, but these are of varying sensitivity and specificity.