• Whacked! DRA cap takes lice out of freestanding imaging

• Law and regulation replace tech advances as agents of change

• Join us in celebrating 10 years of webcasting live from the Windy City

• Too many hot dogs take home top prize but lose peristalsis
• Lonely hearts call in sick more
• Asymptomatic young tennis players harbor MSK trauma
• MR imaging tops x-ray, scintigraphy for bone metastases
• SPECT digs deep to parse heterogeneity of depression
• MSCT and 3T MR abstracts dominate RSNA meeting
• Incidental extracardiac findings occur with ischemia
• Auditory delusions show link to voice-processing area
• Case Of The Month

• National Academies touts nuclear medicine's revival
• Filet view reconstruction speeds up CT colonography
• CO2, gadolinium prove utility in uterine fibroids treatment
• FDG-PET predicts response to chemo in Hodgkin's disease
• Chest physicians oppose CT lung cancer screening
• Open-source solution helps terminology management

By: Sandip Basu, MBBS (HONS), DRM, Diplomate N.B., and Abass Alavi, M.D.

• FDG-PET takes lead role in suspected or proven infection

By: Sunit Sebastian, M.D., and William C. Small M.D., Ph.D.

• 3D postprocessing techniques shine in abdomen and pelvis

• Philips' filet irons kinks out of virtual colonoscopy
• CAD expands to aid imaging in niches throughout body
• Soft demand for MR and CT strengthens buyers' hands

By: Emily Hayes

• Radiology plays starring role in personalized medicine
• Proton MRS spots early heart problems in diabetics

By: Steven G. Finden, M.D., D.D.S.

• MRI proves modality of choice for temporomandibular joint

• Attenuation physics rule DE imaging
• Dual-energy CT makes inroads in aortic and pulmonary studies

By: Eric Trefelner, M.D.

• Grim reaper helps hedge funds rake it in

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• 'Scientific management' takes over radiology

By: Leonard Berlin, M.D., FACR

• Cure litigious bent by teaching, not tort reform

By: John Morelli, B.S., Justin Q. Ly, M.D., Scot E. Campbell, M.D., and Douglas P. Beall, M.D.

• As climbing popularity soars, so do musculoskeletal injuries

• SPECT/CT and PET/CT detect stenosis, ischemia in one exam

• Time-resolved MR angiography revolutionizes clinical imaging

By: Franklin Tessler, M.D., and Jim R. Brown, RT, RDMS, RDCS

• Volume ultrasound competes with multiplanar CT and MRI

• Beta blockers prove optional with dual-source scanners
• No premedication equals fewer staff, more patients
• Faster temporal resolution takes on all heart rates

• CT vendors ready push for next-generation scanners
• Semantic divergence ends in practical convergence
• MR vendors balance patient comfort, technology drive
• MR developers say, 'show me the applications'
• Ultrasound strums familiar chords in RSNA exhibits
• Sonography continues to turn less into more
• PET/CT vendors proffer speed to spark rebound
• PET/CT cranks it up a notch with new advances
• 3D, multiplanar strategies build confident diagnoses
• Enterprise informatics move from luxury to must-have
• Digital x-ray finally gains traction-a decade late