Diagnostic Imaging Europe April 2006

COVER STORY

• Experience overcomes difficulties of 3T MRI
  Boel Hansson

Imaging News

• Research determines timing, tools for optimal coronaryinterventions
• Grump entertains at ECR
• CT-guided therapy makes shaking hands no sweat for patients
• PET/CT localizes foot infection
• Manipulating brain's protective barricade can help researchers
• Mammography's 'mortality paradox' resurfaces amid doubts
• Shortfalls in use of anatomic biomarkers create opportunities
• Laser ablation kills liver tumors under MR guidance

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

Report: Oncology

• MSCT assists in renal cell cancer workup
  Anno Graser, M.D., Michael Staehler, M.D., Maximilian F. Reiser, M.D., and Ullrich G. Mueller-Lisse, M.D.

DEPARTMENTS

From the Editor

• Radio and TV get mixed reception at ECR 2006
  Philip Ward, Editor

Reader Feedback

• Reader Feedback

The Big Picture

• Radiology must confront outsourcing challenges
  Peter Pattynama, M.D., Ph.D.