Aims and scope

Insights into Imaging is a journal of the European Society of Radiology (ESR) with an Impact Factor 2023 of 4.1. It accepts original articles, educational and critical review articles as well as position and recommendation papers from leading societies and institutions. Through critical thinking and re-thinking, the authors should provide an insight into how radiology is currently practised and analyse whether it needs to be re-shaped.

Insights into Imaging is a Gold Open Access journal, all articles are freely available on the publisher’s portal SpringerOpen.

Editor in Chief

Paola Clauser, MD, PhD
Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
paola.clauser@i3-journal.org

Deputy Editors

Elisabetta Giannotti, MD
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS
Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
(Breast Imaging)

Carlos F Muñoz Núñez, MD
Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe,
Valencia, Spain
(Thorax Imaging)

Prof. Emilio Quaia, MD, PhD
University of Padova,
Padova, Italy
(Abdominal Imaging)

Sofia Gourtsoyianni, MD, PhD
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Athens, Greece
(Gastrointestinal Imaging)

Camilla Panico, MD, PhD
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy
(Urogenital Imaging)

Bin Song, MD
West China Hospital,
Chengdu, China
(Quantitative imaging, radiomics, and biomarkers)

Prof. Christian Loewe, MD
Medical University Vienna,
Vienna, Austria
(Cardiac Imaging)

Prof. Bela Purohit, MD
National Neuroscience Institute,
Singapore
(Neuro and Head & Neck Imaging)

Prof. Alberto Vieira, MD
Hospital CUF Porto,
Porto, Portugal
(Musculoskeletal Imaging)

Guest Editor

Ferdia A. Gallagher, PhD FRCR FRCP,
University of Cambridge,
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ESR Publications Committee Chair
Guest Editor ESR Journals

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Section Editor
Roberto Cannella, MD, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Gennaro D’Anna, MD, ASST Ovest Milanese, Legnano, Milan, Italy

Advisory Editorial Board

European Society of Breast Imaging
Ritse Mann, PhD, MD, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology
Giuseppe Muscogiuri, MD, PhD, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy

European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology
Marc Zins, MD, Hôpital Saint-Joseph, Paris, France

European Society of Head and Neck Radiology
Steve Connor, MD, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

European Society for Hybrid, Molecular and Translational Imaging
Prof. Dr. med. Johannes Rübenthaler, MHBA, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany

European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics
Erik Ranschaert, PhD, MD, St. Nikolaus Hospital, Eupen, Belgium

European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology
Alberto Bazzocchi, PhD, MD, The “Rizzoli” Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy

European Society of Neuroradiology
Prof. Luigi Manfré, MD, Institute of Oncology in Mediterranean I.O.M., Catania, Italy

European Society of Oncologic Imaging
Prof. Dr. med. Heinz-Peter Schlemmer, PhD, MD, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany

European Society of Thoracic Imaging
Asst. Prof. Anna Rita Larici, MD, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

European Society of Urogenital Radiology
Marie-France Bellin, MD, Hôpital Bicêtre, Villejuif, France

Scientific Editorial Board

Abdominal
Section Editor: Emina Talakic, MD, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Elena Belloni, MD, Vigevano Civil Hospital, ASST Pavia, Vigevano, Italy
Roberto Cannella, MD, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Oğuz Dicle, MD, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Türkiye
David Marti-Aguado, PhD, MD, Clinic University Hospital of Valencia, INCLIVA Biomedical Research Institute, Valencia, Spain
Mustafa N Özmen, MD, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye
András Palkó, PhD, dr. med. habil., University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Stefano Palmucci, MD, University Hospital “Policlinico G. Rodolico-San Marco” – Departiment “GF Ingrassia”, Catania, Italy
Gemma Sempere Campello, MD, Hospital Universitari Son Espases, Palma, Spain
Avinash Tiwari, MD, DM, Regency Hospital Ltd., Kanpur, India
Federica Vernuccio, MD, PhD, Universita degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo Italy

Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics
Section Editor: Angel Alberich-Bayarri, MD, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe, Valencia, Spain

Lorenzo Faggioni, MD, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Ana Jiménez-Pastor, QUIBIM, Valencia, Spain
Daniel Pinto dos Santos, MD, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Yashbir Singh, PhD, ME, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, United States

Breast
Section Editor: Nuala Healy, MD, Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Rodrigo Alcantara Souza, MD, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
Corinne Balleyguier, PhD, MD, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, Villejuif, France
Gamze Durhan, MD, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Türkiye
Eduardo Fleury, MD, PhD, Instituto Brasileiro de Controle do Câncer, São Paulo, Brasil
Veronica Magni, PhD, MD, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
Manuel Signorini, MD, Radiology Department – ULSS 5 Polesana, Rovigo, Italy
Giulia Vatteroni, MD, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy

Cardiovascular
Section Editor: Rodrigo Salgado, PhD, MD, University Hospital Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Julius Frederik Heidenreich, MD, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
Maja Hrabak Paar, MD, PhD, EBCR, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Alexandros Kallifatidis, PhD, MD, St. Luke’s Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
Karl-Friedrich Kreitner, MD, Universitätsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Florian Michallek, MD, Priv.-Doz., Charité University Hospital Berlin, Berlin, Germany & Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Japan
Caterina Beatrice Monti, MD, PhD, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Ursula Reiter, MD, PhD, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Valentin Sinitsyn, MD, PhD, Lomonosov University Medical Center, Moscow, Russian Federation

Chest
Section Editor: Lucian Beer, PhD, MD, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Gordon Cowell, MD, MBChB, FRCR, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Olga Lukina, MD, PhD, St. Petersburg Pavlov’s State Medical University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Ruxandra-Julia Milos, MD, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Clinic Donaustadt, and Vienna Healthcare Group, Vienna, Austria
Helmut Prosch, MD, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Jiangdian Song, PhD, China Medical University, Shenyang, China

Emergency
Section Editor: Rathachai Kaewlai, MD, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Fabio Pinto, MD, Marcianise Hospital, Naples, Italy

Gastrointestinal
Section Editor: Cristina García-Villar, MD, Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar, Cádiz, Spain

Damiano Caruso, MD, Sapienza University of Rome, Sant’Andrea University Hospital, Rome, Italy
Rubens Chojniak, MD, A.C.Camargo Cancer Center, São Paolo, Brazil
Etienne Danse, MD, PhD, Université Catholique de Louvain, UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium
Anirudh Nair, MD, FRCR, CESR, EDiR, EDiUR, MBA, Everlight Radiology, London, United Kingdom
Cinthia Denise Ortega, MD, PhD, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP, São Paulo, Brazil
Charikleia Triantopoulou, MD, Konstantopoulio General Hospital, Nea Ionia, Greece

Head & Neck
Section Editor: Lorenzo Preda, MD, National Centre of Oncological Hadrontherapy, Pavia, Italy

Soraya Robinson, MD, Imaging Urania, Vienna, Austria

Interventional
Section Editor: Emanuele Barabino, MD, Ospedale Santa Corona Pietra Ligure, Genoa, Italy

Alireza Almasi-Nokiani, MD, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Fernando Aparici, MD, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe, Valencia, Spain
Adrian P. Brady, MD, FFRRCSI, FRCR, FRCPC, FRCPI, Mercy University Hospital, Cork, Ireland
Guillermo Elizondo-Riojas, PhD, MD, University Hospital, UANL, Monterrey, Mexico

Musculoskeletal
Section Editor: Anagha P. Parkar, MD, PhD, Haraldsplass Diakonale Sykehus, Bergen, Norway

Jasminka Igrec, PhD, MD, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Raquel Prada, PhD, Hospital Ribera Povisa, Vigo, Spain
Mitja Rupreht, PhD, MD, University Medical Center Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
Jingyu Zhong, MD, Tongren Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Neuro
Section Editor: Laura Oleaga, MD, PhD, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Soenke Langner, MD, University Medicine Rostock, Greifswald, Germany
Vivek Pai, MD, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Carlo Cosimo Quattrocchi, PhD, MD, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

Pediatric
Section Editor: Marta Gómez-Chiari, MD, Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona Children’s Hospital, Barcelona, Spain

Brendan Kelly, MB BCh BAO, BSc, MSc, FFRRCSI, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Radiation Protection
Section Editor: Yoshito Tsushima, MD, PhD, Gunma University, Maebashi, Japan

Lluis Donoso Bach, PhD, MD, Hospital Clinic Barcelona and University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Urogenital
Section Editor: Yuki Himoto, MD, PhD, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

Andrea Delli Pizzi, MD, Universita degli Studi Gabriele d’Annunzio Chieti e Pescara, Chieti, Italy
Lorenzo E. Derchi, MD, Università degli Studi di Genova, Genoa, Italy
Oğuz Dicle, MD, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Türkiye
Valdair Francisco Muglia, MD, Hospital Clinicas Ribeirão Prêto, Ribeirão Prêto, Brazil
Leo Pallwein-Prettner, MD, Health Center Steyr, Steyr, Austria
Lígia Pires-Gonçalves, MD, Department of Radiology and Cancer Biology and Epigenetics Group – Research Centre (CI-IPOP), Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto (IPOP), Porto, Portugal
Andrea Ponsiglione, MD, PhD, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Contact

Editorial Office
c/o European Society of Radiology, Scientific Publications Department
Am Gestade 1, 1010 Vienna, Austria
phone: +43-1-533 40 64-0
fax: +43-1-533 40 64-441
e-mail: office@i3-journal.org

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