Diagnostic Imaging North America

July 2005

COVER STORY

By: H. A. Abella

Interventionalists offer new choices for cancer therapy

Interventional oncology evolves through collaboration

Diverse developments enhance image-guided therapy

DEPARTMENTS

X-RAY VISION

John C. Hayes, Editor

Empowered patients may challenge radiologists' authority

AGENDA

C. P. Kaiser

If a picture is worth a thousand words, we've got War and Peace this month

Overread

• Failure to follow up priors may create liability risk
• Star power entices wrong people
• Renal in-stent restenosis challenges interventionalists
• Volume brain MR helps evaluate preemie therapy
• Whole-body PET/CT proves superior for staging cancers
• MR reveals anatomic links to intelligence measures
• Online, nearline miniPACS tame CT data set explosion
• 3D DWI whole-body MR shows metastatic disease

Newsclips

• Pediatric heart imaging delivers high x-ray dose
• Mother's genes help child develop strategy skills
• Virtual colonoscopy aces speed-reading test
• U.K. study strengthens case for breast MR screening
• MR spectroscopy moves from the brain to bones
• Smokers kick the habit after seeing CT images

Imaging & The Law

• Danger lurks in schemes involving outside reads

Breast Imaging

• MRI promises to contribute greatly to cancer management

Tech Watch

• Software transforms MSCT into coronary artery screening tool
• Metal detector safeguards against threats in MR suite
• 90-channel MR head coil delivers high-resolution images at 1.5T
• Vendors hope large bores will entice CT customers

Perturbations

• I just hate to hear that lonesome whistle blow

Perspective

• Utilization management steps onto center stage

Mailbox

• Genesis of breast tomosynthesis goes back decades to hand-controlled tubes
• Radiologists treating nuclear medicine like a poor stepchild is nothing new