There are many reported factors contributing to this gender gap, including fears of radiation exposure and difficulties with work-life balance, experts wrote in Academic Radiology. 

"We recognize the profound and lasting impact these failures have had on communities of color and Black radiologists," the society's board wrote. 

For instance, income does not have the same influence on outcomes as other populations, according to new analysis of Medicare data.

"Recruiters have their hands full,” Sarah Thomas, MD, with the Department of Radiology at Duke University Medical School, and colleagues wrote recently. 

Oftentimes, these deviations can occur informally, but experts believe careful documentation is needed to resolve them in a timely fashion.

Women now fill the top editorial spots at 10 peer-reviewed radiology journals. Just like that, a new set of gatekeepers is shaping the conversation around scientific inquiry and discovery across much of medical imaging.

As a high-schooler, he rebuilt a hospital’s discarded X-ray machine to learn the science of crystallography using the principles of Bragg diffraction.

In the years since the turn of the century, interventional radiology has made quantifiable strides toward familiarizing the general public with the specialty and, along the way, helping IR better compete for business with surgery.