Diagnostic Imaging North America
April 2006
COVER STORY
By: Emily Hayes
Imaging News
HIMSS Notebook
SCAR Preview
Networks
Portability
Perspective
DEPARTMENTS
X-RAY VISION
John C. Hayes
Splash created by 64-slice CT obscures other radiology advances
AGENDA
C.P. Kaiser
Women's imaging searches for niche as its own subspecialty
Overread
Newsclips
Women's Health Special Section
3T MR Special Section
Tech Watch
Backscatter
April 2006
COVER STORY
By: Emily Hayes
Imaging News
HIMSS Notebook
SCAR Preview
Networks
Portability
- Health data exchange aims to improve cancer imaging
- Cross-enterprise standard fosters imaging exchange
Perspective
DEPARTMENTS
X-RAY VISION
John C. Hayes
Splash created by 64-slice CT obscures other radiology advances
AGENDA
C.P. Kaiser
Women's imaging searches for niche as its own subspecialty
Overread
- Brain damage from alcohol worsens with tobacco use
- fMRI elaborates on stock answers
- Dose concerns sway use of MR, CT in colon, brain
- To The Point
- Contrast ultrasound finds a niche in molecular imaging
- Imagers explore PET/CT for lung cancer diagnosis
- Carotid stenting brings mental pep
- SPECT changes standard of care for low back pain
Newsclips
- ACR blasts breast imaging study as misleading
- MSCT helps I-ELCAP spot latent lung cancers
- CT-guided therapy dries up embarrassing sweaty palms
- Radiology reports fail to mention pediatric obesity
- Feds appraise the value of nuclear medicine research
- CT beats fluoroscopy for Crohn's disease anomalies
Women's Health Special Section
- Caregiver stereotype plagues female radiology residents
- Radiologists top computers in breast cancer screening
- False positives foil hopes for ovarian cancer screening
- Ultrasound predicts outcome of ectopic pregnancy remedy
- Breast MR boosts detection of ductal carcinoma in situ
- Researchers become hip to prosthetic complication
- MR-guided ultrasound effectively treats fibroids
- Popularity of breast ultrasound raises questions of quality
- Certification rules for surgeons rival radiologists'
- Growth of boutique practice spurs imaging expansion
3T MR Special Section
- High-field scanners assume routine clinical caseloads
- Three-T matures to meet expanding clinical needs
- Up-to-date coils add clarity to 3T spine imaging
Tech Watch
Backscatter
