Diagnostic Imaging North America - February 2009

COVER STORY
By: BY DOMINIK MORHARD, M.D., MAXIMILIAN F. REISER, M.D., AND BIRGIT ERTL-WAGNER, M.D.

• CT angiography data offer new approach to perfusion stroke imaging

DEPARTMENTS

Agenda

By: DONNA DOMINO

• International experts, cutting-edge technology impress RSNA newbie

Overread

• Proponents call proposed PET coverage 'bittersweet'

• Clinicians identify tactics that minimize risk of NSF

• Edgy NSF article may have gone too far

• Europe's isotope problems persist

• Case of the Month

Newsclips

• Study confirms: Digital mammo lengthens read time

• Vertebroplasty data hint at negative effect on survival

• Vampire bat thrombolytic study findings disappoint

• Incidental finding on MRI points to multiple sclerosis

• 3D neuro imaging technique realizes Orwellian visions

• Ultrasound predicts stroke from carotid morphology

Diagnostic Imaging supplement
Your Outpatient Practice

• High quality imaging need not require high end equipment

X-Ray Vision

• Game changes with new portable and wireless digital radiography

Cancer Care

• Interventional radiology offers refined approach to therapy

Digital Practices

• Wireless x-ray technology unshackles imaging options

Tech Watch

• Three-D rivals at RSNA 2008 bump competition up a notch

• Elastography promises big changes in women's care

Backscatter

• Radiology gets sent off to the washhouse