Diagnostic Imaging North America
April 2006
COVER STORY
By: Emily Hayes
Imaging News
HIMSS Notebook
SCAR Preview
Networks
Portability
- Health data exchange aims to improve cancer imaging
- Cross-enterprise standard fosters imaging exchange
Image Management
Perspective
DEPARTMENTS
X-RAY VISION
John C. Hayes
Splash created by 64-slice CT obscures other radiology advances
AGENDA
C.P. Kaiser
Women's imaging searches for niche as its own subspecialty
Overread
- Brain damage from alcohol worsens with tobacco use
- fMRI elaborates on stock answers
- Dose concerns sway use of MR, CT in colon, brain
- To The Point
- Contrast ultrasound finds a niche in molecular imaging
- Imagers explore PET/CT for lung cancer diagnosis
- Carotid stenting brings mental pep
- SPECT changes standard of care for low back pain
Newsclips
- ACR blasts breast imaging study as misleading
- MSCT helps I-ELCAP spot latent lung cancers
- CT-guided therapy dries up embarrassing sweaty palms
- Radiology reports fail to mention pediatric obesity
- Feds appraise the value of nuclear medicine research
- CT beats fluoroscopy for Crohn's disease anomalies
Women's Health Special Section
- Caregiver stereotype plagues female radiology residents
- Radiologists top computers in breast cancer screening
- False positives foil hopes for ovarian cancer screening
- Ultrasound predicts outcome of ectopic pregnancy remedy
- Breast MR boosts detection of ductal carcinoma in situ
- Researchers become hip to prosthetic complication
- MR-guided ultrasound effectively treats fibroids
- Popularity of breast ultrasound raises questions of quality
- Certification rules for surgeons rival radiologists'
- Growth of boutique practice spurs imaging expansion
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
Tech Watch
Backscatter