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Diagnostic Imaging. Vol. 31 No. 1
 

Diagnostic Imaging North America - January 2009

January 1, 2009



COVER STORY
By: Clare Tempany, M.D., Jalil Afnan, M.D., and Nathan McDannold, PH.D.
  • Focused ultrasound ablation offer prostate cancer option
DEPARTMENTS
Agenda
By: John C. Hayes
  • When the RSNA throws the book at us, we read it-all
Overread
  • Physicians appreciate value of decision-support system
  • California blames operator error for CT incident
  • 'Image Gently' program expands beyond pediatrics
  • Dual-isotope SPECT/CT finds infections in diabetic feet
  • Case of the Month
  • SPECT trial helps solve mystery of fibromyalgia
Newsclips
  • Iso-osmolar agent shows higher renal failure rate
  • Some breast cancers may regress spontaneously
  • CMS hesitates to approve PET for cancer despite data
  • Brain imaging finds why people overbid at auctions
  • Chest CT assists follow-up of head and neck cancer
  • Ultrasound predicts stroke from carotid morphology
Diagnostic Imaging supplement
In Review: News from the RSNA Meeting

  • Radiation dose reduction themes color RSNA 2008
  • Depth increases in lineup of breast imaging options
  • Economic woes affect attendance
  • Expertise with MSCT-CA takes time
  • Illegal patient info sneaks into PowerPoint files
  • Moolah gets reports flying out the door
  • Multifaceted effort propels CT colonography forward
  • CTC can diagnose more than cancer
  • Occult infarction presages major event
  • Database mining unearths secrets about imaging use
  • Rads lose procedure volume to cardiologists, surgeons
  • Multislice CT closes in on emergency triage role
  • South Carolina radiologist stands against 'Rad Scare'
X-Ray Vision
  • True value comes to digital imaging via mining of medical databases
Magnetic Resonance
  • fMRI for lie detection finds customers but lacks science
Tech Watch
  • MR, CT vendors hit range of price-performance points
Ultrasound
  • Real-time elasticity findings improve breast specificity
Intervention
  • Targeted therapies gain ground on hard-to-treat liver tumors
Practice Issues
  • Assistants take on additional tasks, inch toward payment
Perturbations
  • 'Yes we can' change our minds about reform
 

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