Diagnostic Imaging North America

February 2008

COVER STORY

By: H.A. Abella

• Advanced stroke imaging leads to new management challenges

DEPARTMENTS

Agenda

By: James Brice

• Radiology's triumphs and travails serve as grist for web news mill

Overread

• Medicare imaging costs skyrocket, draw scrutiny
• Interventional units win over managers on value
• Portable CT KOs doubt of brain injuries in boxers
• Belief in God gets BOLD look
• Study challenges night call ban for first-year residents
• Case of the Month

Newsclips

• High-intensity ultrasound helps curb prostate Cancer
• CTA improves, complicates management of PE
• Blood and oil find common ground at Houston gathering
• Children's ATV injuries show consistent patterns
• Sonologists, ER physicians get joint FAST guidelines

X-Ray Vision

By: John C. Hayes, Editor

• Short-sighted coverage rules pose serious threat to coronary CT angio

Tech Watch

• Philips prepares hybrid for digital mammography entry
• Siemens prepares x-ray tube to encircle patients

Clinical Advances

By: Emily Hayes

• Breast elastography moves closer to clinical mainstream

Breast Imaging

By: Emily Hayes

• Imagers seek clarity on pool of supplemental screening Patients

Genitourinary

By: Stanton M. Regan and Christopher P. Steidle, M.D.

• MRI scouts novel approach to urinary incontinence

Oncology

By: Patrick Veit-Haibach, M.D., Klaus Strobel, M.D., and Thomas F. Hany, M.D

• PET/CT require new criteria to hone treatment follow-up

Backscatter

By: Bradley M. Tipler, M.D.

• New technologies put the squeeze on us rads

Special Section: Enterprise Imaging & IT

Informatics News

• E-learning tool provides on-demand PACS training PACS simulator helps residents ready for call
• PACS simulator helps ready residents for rigors of call

Postprocessing

• Three-D techniques showcase the pancreas and biliary tree

Remote Interpretations

• Teleradiology laws lag behind growth of modality within EU

Radiography

• Reasons for computed or digital radiography vary, but both do the job
• Roper St. Francis gains advantages from CR/DR
• MeritCare Health seeks lower dose, faster diagnosis