Diagnostic Imaging Europe
May 2005
COVER STORY
- Contrast gives the edge to digital breast scans
Clarisse Dromain, M.D., Fanny Jeunehomme, Ph.D., and Robert Sigal, M.D., Ph.D
Special SECTION: Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
- Society expands influence, homes in on morphology and function
- Perfusion MR succeeds by evaluating all results
- DE-CMR demonstrates its predictive powers
- 3T disappoints in MRA diagnosis of coronary disease
- Multislice CTA outshines MRA in coronary arteries
DEPARTMENTS
From The Editor
- Digital mammography wins over lingering skeptics
Philip Ward, Editor
Guest Editorial
- California Swede pens radiological alphabet
Hans Ringertz, M.D., Ph.D.
News
- MR provides safe and effective fetal imaging with appropriate use
- Snow in Vienna fails to dampen ECR attendees' enthusiasm
- Contrast and acquisition technique prove critical in liver imaging
- European Society of Radiology receives green light
- Vendors at ECR reveal new strategies in MR, IT, CAD, and CTA
- Islet cell infusions make further gains in diabetes therapy
- Fluorocholine PET/CT aids prostate cancer staging and management
- Intraoperative high-field MR imaging revamps neurosurgery practice
Report: Musculoskeletal
- Imaging brings precision to hemophilia diagnosis
Alistair D. Calder, FRCR, and Brian Holloway, FRCR
The Big Picture
- PET/CT need not become a medical battleground
Gustav K. Von Schulthess, MD., Ph.D.
Reader Feedback
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