Diagnostic Imaging North America
April 2005
COVER STORY: Women's Health
- Breast tomosynthesis trials show promise
- Digital mammography delivers rapid results
- Fibroid therapy stays on minimally invasive path
- Expert offers rules for best breast MR practice
- Imaging provides follow-up after breast cancer treatment
- Fine-tuning breast imaging workflow reduces wait times
- Modified gamma camera zeroes in on subcentimeter breast lesions
- RFA joins arsenal for breast cancer metastases in the liver
- Vertebral fracture identification rounds out osteoporosis Dx
DEPARTMENTS
X-RAY VISION
John C. Hayes, Editor
AAA screening concept gains ground but faces funding challenge
AGENDA
John C. Hayes, Editor
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Special Section
3TMR
Sponsored by an educational grant from Siemens Medical Solutions
- Musculoskeletal specialists push spatial resolution to limit
- 3T breast MR heightens speed and spatial detail
- 3T boosts MR's ability to pinpoint prostate cancer
- 3T broadens scope of MR spectroscopy
- Moving to 3T brings SNR feast to signal-hungry
Overread
- Aneurysm screening plan falls short of expectations
- Smell test identifies AD risk
- Government initiates interim plan to cover PET
- ACR protests listing of x-rays as human carcinogen
- CT reveals pelvic disease in late-stage pregnancy
- Headphones use aviation technology to hush MRI
- Copenhagen study confirms mammo screening benefit
- ERRATA
- System mines databases for cases, trends
- CT solves puzzling 'WTC' cough
Newsclips
- Screening centers squelch balanced information
- Light-based imaging 'sees' thin fibrous cap
- Saline-enhanced RFA meets expectations
- SNM targets molecular imaging with new center
- Tracking device debuts at 2004 RSNA meeting
- Patients breathe easy with bile duct MRI
Imaging & The Law
Computed Tomography
Sonography
- Radiologists look over their shoulders, knees, and hips
- Radiologists prefer MR but still find ultrasound underutilized
Tech Watch
- Software traffic cop directs burgeoning workflow in CT
- Data pipeline paves way for new generation of MR surface coils
- Hitachi prepares to storm the U.S. market with multislice CTs
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