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ECR 2008

Editors from the U.S. and European offices of Diagnostic Imaging bring you daily updates of news, images, and commentary from Europe's leading radiology meeting.

 

Fresh concepts could speed up MRI
Novel concepts and approaches are essential to speed up MRI examinations. Furthermore, pushing speed limits does not just mean doing the same things quicker -- new application areas must also be found. More »
Cardiac radiology enters vital new phase
Cardiac imaging is at a crossroads, according to next year’s ECR president. He’s not alone in holding such an opinion. More »
Dutch doctors tout ultrasound for appendicitis in children, caution against CT overuse
The number of CT scans performed in the pediatric abdomen in the U.S. is high compared with Europe, possibly because doctors fear legal action in the case of a missed pathology or disease. Rather than using CT for appendicitis, many doctors in the Netherlands still prefer to use ultrasound to... More »
Delayed-enhancement MR saves senior marathon runners from lethal lap
Marathon runners 50 years or older may face a higher than expected risk of sudden cardiovascular accidents. MR imaging with late gadolinium enhancement may help identify these athletes in time to keep them from potentially deadly episodes, according to German researchers. More »
Imaging comes of age in biomedical research
Radiologists must develop strategies for participating in the new age of imaging-based research. They need to join interdisciplinary teams, develop core imaging facilities for host institutions, involve themselves in small-animal imaging facilities, enter clinical research programs, and learn about... More »
Ultrasound manufacturers address patient care with product innovations
One of the world’s smallest portable scanners, a new approach to 3D imaging, an award-winning convertible platform, and a novel method for detecting deep body tumors are among the many ultrasound highlights in the Technical Exhibition at ECR 2008. More »
What did you learn in school today?
In my leisurely hours of continuing education in February and March, I read some articles in the daily papers and learned journals that taught me new aspects of medicine. Among them were the following issues. More »
64-slice CT shows value for the assessment of the right heart
The enhanced spatial resolution and speed afforded by 64-slice CT scanning could enable the accurate assessment of right ventricular function in patients with cardiovascular disease, according to researchers in China and the U.S. More »
New ideas confront challenges posed by PACS
PACS developers face formidable challenges in their quest to create the ideal working environment for radiologists. These include coping with the explosion in the quantity of data produced in a modern hospital, efficiently retrieving and displaying that information both within the hospital... More »
Breast elastography techniques break new ground
Two new ultrasound elastography techniques show promise for the diagnosis and characterization of breast lesions, according to researchers from France and Korea. They could complement standard gray-scale sonography, evaluate suspicious microcalcifications detected with conventional mammography, and... More »
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