By: John C. Hayes

• Mid-year Clinical Update: Imaging thrives by making connections
• Clinical evidence secures reprieve for coronary CTA
• Emerging options compete with mammography
• Functional MRI measures effects of liver treatment
• Available scanners tackle future CTC screening demand
• CAD gains ground in climb to routine clinical application
• Fibroid patients still don't know about embolizationn
• Controversy dogs lung screening clinical trials
• Osteoplasty holds promise for repair of bone fractures
• Pediatric imagers put dose campaign on the road
• Molecular imaging enjoys progress on multiple fronts

By: John C. Hayes

• Mid-year clinical update tracks radiology's course since the RSNA

• Ultrasound spots mammo misses, but at high cost
• MSCT issue: Will a milligray a day keep the doctor away?
• MR spectroscopy glutamate measures reflect craving for heroin in addicts
• PET emerges as staging exam for cervical cancer
• Cryotherapy proves effective for small renal cell tumors
• Case of the Month

• One-year mammography follow-up falls short
• Endovascular embolization curtails GI hemorrhages
• Endorectal MRI foretells prostate cancer prognosis
• Ultrasound could precede CT in acute appendicitis triage
• fMRI predicts benign brain tumors that turn malignant
• fMRI shows social drinkers can't escape alcohol traps

By: John C. Hayes, Editor

• Debate portends radiology's shift from clinical to informatics-based

• Las Vegas imaging center serves as proving ground
• Algorithm addresses match of CT and MR data sets

• Advantages of outsourced storage surpass expenses

• Innovators team with vendors to broaden access to new tools

• PACS control debate— radiology or IT?—spices SIIM meeting
• SIIM vets discuss issues facing imaging informatics
• Even low-ratio compression changes what readers see
• Insurance filter sorts work list for teleradiologists

• PACS must avoid driving radiology, patients apart

• High school student glimpses radiology through PE research

• High-tech suite of the future integrates imaging, robotics

• Beware the binds that tie up your hands