Diagnostic Imaging North America
August 2008
COVER STORY
- MR elastography inspires new wave of hepatic imaging
- Diffusion-weighted MRI moves beyond brain to other body parts
- Exhibitors highlight revved-up MR performance, new applications
DEPARTMENTS
Agenda
Overread
- MR brain mapping assesses response to glioma therapy
- Ritalin boosts brain's efficiency
- Beta-amyloid plaques predict cognitive disease advance
- Prostate MR meets challenge following ultrasound ablation
- CT lung screening offers moderate benefit to smokers
- Case of the Month
Newsclips
- Intraoperative angio proves worth for brain surgery
- SPECT zooms in on causes of social anxiety disorder
- Incidental adrenal masses almost always prove benign
- PET avoids liver resection in colon cancer patients
- FDA mulls over breast cancer ablation registry
- PET/CT restaging alters breast cancer management
X-Ray Vision
Tech Watch
- GE's first high-definition CT enters clinical operation
- SPECT/CT replaces standard detector with flat-panel x-ray
Special Section: Magnetic Resonance
Radiology Practice
Computed Tomography
- Morphological imaging sorts out cystic lesions of pancreas
- Dual-energy CT captures subtle pancreatic masses
