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.

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