Diagnostic Imaging North America

July 2006

COVER STORY: MIDYEAR CLINICAL UPDATE

• Introduction
• Cardiovascular
  Cardiac CT sets high bar for physician education
• Ultrasound
  Elastography monitors ablation therapy progress
• Emergency
  64-slice CT makes inroads in chest pain and trauma
• Intervention
  Radioembolization proves its worth in hepatic cancer
• Chest Imaging
  Imaging improves outlook for lung cancer patients
• Magnetic Resonance
  Parallel imaging spurs performance of MR at 3T
• Musculoskeletal
  Workup of pelvic joint impingement saves hip
• Nuclear Medicine
  Need for speed drives innovations in PET/CT
• Oncology
  PET/CT-led procedures show value in children
• Informatics
  Cross-enterprise image sharing sees breakthrough

Special Section: ULTRASOUND

• Radiologists make moves to reclaim prostate imaging
• Residents who perform night sonography need more training

DEPARTMENTS

X-RAY VISION

John C. Hayes

Marriage of convenience could lead to cardiac arrest for radiology

AGENDA

James C. P. Kaiser
Midyear review provides solace for those with Chicago hangoverImaging & The Law
 

• Reasons to reconsider CCTA overread pacts

Thoracic Imaging

• CAD for pulmonary evaluation approaches mainstay status

Perturbations

• Don't believe party line: Big isn't always better

Overread

• ACC: Cards must drive better imaging quality
• Oh @#$%! button lights up brain
• PACS showdown proves a winner without having one
• PET/CT prevails over single scans in ovarian cancer
• Oncologist frets about premature decisions based on PET/CT
• Incidental PE seen on CT spurs treatment queries
• ERRATA

Newsclips

• 3D MSCT colonography overcomes diverticulosis
• MRI spots patients prone to poststroke bleeds
• Cardiac CTA screening pays off if price is right
• NIH's Zerhouni: imaging is key to medicine's future
• California ultrasound law implements Cruise control