Diagnostic Imaging North America
August 2005
COVER STORY
Vendors challenge limits of MR speed and resolution
By: James Brice
DEPARTMENTS
X-RAY VISION
James Brice
ISMRM meeting format addresses society's many-faceted persona
AGENDA
Jane Lowers
News bureaus around the country tap into radiology's hot spots
Overread
- Report urging changes to breast standards draws fire
- Radiologists flex 'x-ray vision'
- PET probes brain and heart to fathom bulimia, obesity
- To The Point
- Joint and back pain lead to inappropriate referrals
- Prepless CT colonography hides lesions, hinders read
- Carotid artery stenting takes off despite limits
- High-end technology aids pediatric low-dose strategy
Newsclips
- Ultrasound BI-RADS might need some fine-tuning
- Demand for radiologists holds steady, pay grows
- FDG-PET predicts chemo response in ovarian cancer
- Multislice CT's limit looks more like 64 than the sky
- Interventional oncology turns profit for rad groups
MRI Special Section
- MR finds widespread clinical use in MS diagnosis, management
- Cardiac service doubles patient capacity in just under two years
Workflow
Imaging Practice
Practice Management
Radiation Safety
- Dose metrics lag behind advances in CT scanners
- History of radiation dose metrics spins heads
- Rads know how to keep dose low
Chest Imaging
Tech Watch
Backscatter
SCAR Conference Reporter
- New software crystallizes network security big picture
- Brightness, not density, wins monitor accolades
- Revised reading rooms adopt new technology
- Societies tackle digital quality and consistency
- Breast imagers protest digital discrepancies
- DICOM enhances CT, MR device interoperability
- SCAR takes steps to create new certification program
Mailbox
- Use multislice CT for coronary imaging only when EBCT is not available
- SPECT versus PET article invites bike-versus-car analogy
- Clinicians and vendors build bridges in support of digital mammography
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