Diagnostic Imaging North America

AUGUST 2006

COVER STORY

By: C.P. Kaiser

• Trouble by the numbers
  Imaging's reimbursement bubble bursts

By: Emily Hayes

• Radiation Exposure
  Meetings present strategies for lowering dose loads

DEPARTMENTS

X-RAY VISION

John C. Hayes

Soaring CT use may prompt need for long-term dose monitoring

AGENDA

Deborah R. Dakins

Stanford CT symposium makes true believer out of bystander

Overread

• Mammography follow-up catches cancers at low cost
• Sclerosing foam enhances varicose vein embolization
• MRSI accurately scouts, detects prostate cancer

Tech Watch

• New PET scanners promise drastically reduced scan times

Informatics

By: Alan Schweitzer

• Smart planning for PACS considers potential breakups

Special Sections: Midyear Clinical Update, part 2

• Medicare payment policy spurs new indications
• CT body imagers embrace 3D coronal reformations
• Diffusion-weighted MR finds new niche in stroke therapy
• CT-based technologies elevate mammography
• Interventional rads push for new standards in children
• Nonsurgical uterine fibroid treatment makes advances

Special Sections: Magnetic Resonance

• Innovations boost 3T performance, create incentives for clinical use
• Functional MRI helps brain tumor treatment
• MRI outperforms hybrids for bone tumor screening
• Contrast-enhanced MRI lights up prostate nodes

Backscatter

• Dog days of radiology entail new perspective