Diagnostic Imaging Vol 31 No 9

September 09, 2009

Pelvic radiographs are extraneous overkill when it comes to imaging assault victims since most patients get a CT scan anyway, according to University of Maryland researchers.

September 09, 2009

Two European studies published on the same day have reached opposite conclusions about the cost-effectiveness of ultrasound screening exams for abdominal aortic aneurysm.

September 01, 2009

Honest people tell the truth, even when given a chance to lie, as shown in an fMRI brain study of truth telling and prevarication from Harvard behavioral scientists.

September 01, 2009

Massachusetts General Hospital researchers are using automated MRI software to detect individuals in the preclinical phase of Alzheimer's disease with 95% accuracy.

September 01, 2009

“Dr. Brown, the new computer order system won't accept your history of 'fever' for a pulmonary CTA on Mrs. Stern. You now have to have a reimbursable indication, like SOB, or chest pain.”

September 01, 2009

Results from the first Cardiac CT Board Examination suggest that clinical experience is what counts the most toward making the grade.

September 01, 2009

A 40-year-old woman walked into Elizabeth Wende Breast Care in upstate New York for her yearly screening mammogram.

September 01, 2009

Radiologists may discover more on CT scans, and feel more connected to patients, when patients' photographs are included with the CT images, according to a study presented at the last RSNA meeting by Israeli researcher Dr. Yehonatan Turner.

September 01, 2009

Using diffusion tensor imaging, California researchers have confirmed that the brain's white matter in subjects at risk for schizophrenia develops differently compared with that in healthy people. DTI scans of white matter integrity can also predict functional decline.

September 01, 2009

You may think you are tracking your CT, x-ray, and mammography dose exposures, but do you really have current, accurate data?

September 01, 2009

The crazy days of offering sky-high incomes to hire radiologists have ended, but the effects of the mid-2000s boom can still be seen in compensation levels near the top of the scale among all medical practitioners.

September 01, 2009

Unlike Tarantula and other horror films of the 1950s, fossil spiders in 3D CT may not be more terrifying than any creature known to man.

September 01, 2009

Children's hospitals in Cincinnati and Memphis, TN, have established the value of FDG-PET for depicting the extent of neuroblastoma in some patients, particularly for those in the early stages of the disease.

September 01, 2009

Findings from a Washington, DC, study suggest that cardiac CT performed before a repeat surgical revascularization may lead to safer and more cost-effective operations.