International Day of Radiology 2014 Interview on brain imaging

European Society of Radiology (ESR): Imaging is known for its ability to detect and diagnose diseases. What kind of brain diseases can imaging help to detect and diagnose? Miloš Lučić: Actually, there are very few brain diseases that can’t be diagnosed by modern imaging techniques nowadays. Thanks to the extraordinary breakthroughs in imaging technology in the last decades, neuroradiologists have been offered the outstanding capacity to not only visualise and assess a broad variety of different diseases and pathological conditions, including brain ischaemia and infarcts, tumours, inflammation and infections, and metabolic disorders, but also to get insights into the foetal brain, as well as both the structural and functional organisation of the brain; gradually entering into the molecular imaging era. Great improvement has also been achieved in understanding the brain organisation and interconnectivity networks, in diagnosing brain ageing processes and neurodegenerative diseases, as well as psychiatric disorders, using a broad spectrum of novel radiological techniques.