February 2008
COVER STORY
By: H.A. Abella
DEPARTMENTS
Agenda
By: James Brice
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
Tech Watch
- Philips prepares hybrid for digital mammography entry
- Siemens prepares x-ray tube to encircle patients
Clinical Advances
By: Emily Hayes
Breast Imaging
By: Emily Hayes
Genitourinary
By: Stanton M. Regan and Christopher P. Steidle, M.D.
Oncology
By: Patrick Veit-Haibach, M.D., Klaus Strobel, M.D., and Thomas F. Hany, M.D
Backscatter
By: Bradley M. Tipler, M.D.
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
Remote Interpretations
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