Diagnostic Imaging North America

SEPTEMBER 2006

COVER STORY

By: Emily Hayes

• Screening mammography
  Practitioners consider Europe in the quest for better quality

DEPARTMENTS

X-RAY VISION

John C. Hayes
Centers of excellence could improve mammography's quality profile AGENDA

Emily Hayes
From imaging addicts to counting CT slices, journalist comes full circle

Overread

• Rivalry between ACC, ACR surfaces at founding meeting
• PET tracer exploits new way to characterize dementia
• Cardiac SPECT/CT exploits both modalities' strengths

Newsclips

• Ultrasound saves lives of renal transplant patients
• Three-D MRI predicts course of polycystic kidney disease
• Whole-body FDG-PET unravels puzzling fevers
• Current modulation boosts CT quality and radiation
• Chest CTA/leg CT combo affords better PE detection
• New MRI technique tracks infant brain development

Tech Watch

• New CCD sensors promise low-cost digital radiography
• GE extends MRI research collaboration with Mayo

Imaging & the Law

By: Thomas W. Greeson, J.D.

• Hasty budget action spurs petition for delay

Point/Counterpoint

Point

By: Carter Newton, M.D., FACC

• Vendors make cardiac scans easy to read

Counterpoint

By: David Dowe, M.D.

• Demands of cardiac CTA defy oversimplification

Neuroradiology

By: Fred W. Sabb, Ph.D., and Robert M. Bilder, Ph.D.

• Multiple modalities explore roots of schizophrenia

Radiology Practice

By: Kirk Reinitz

• Marginal approach can marginalize revenue

Perturbations

By: Eric Trefelner, M.D.

• How about your tantrum at 2:30 p.m. on Friday?

Special Sections: Enterprise Imaging and IT

• PACS workstations pull new arrows from quiver
• One year later, Katrina leaves hospitals still hurting
• Newest generation of speech recognition faces fresh tasks
• PACS divorcees learn lessons for their 'second time around'

Special Sections: Stanford CT Symposium

• Overuse of CT challenges pediatric radiologists
• New clinical trials attempt to prove CT angiography's worth
• 64-slice CT transforms emergency radiology
• Program director highlights CT's past and future course
• Lung CAD faces barriers to widespread adoption
• 3D workstation face-off puts seasoned users in the hot seat
• Study supports CTA in high-risk asymptomatic patients
• Renal CTA moves past arterial stenosis to vessel anomalies
• Simple protocol tips help make the most of contrast
• Multiplanar reformats raise overall clinical value of CT
• CT, ultrasound may save women from appendectomy