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
Informatics
By: Alan Schweitzer
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
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