July 2008

COVER STORY

By: John C. Hayes

• Mid-year Clinical Update: Imaging thrives by making connections

• Clinical evidence secures reprieve for coronary CTA

• Emerging options compete with mammography

• Functional MRI measures effects of liver treatment

• Available scanners tackle future CTC screening demand

• CAD gains ground in climb to routine clinical application

• Fibroid patients still don't know about embolizationn

• Controversy dogs lung screening clinical trials

• Osteoplasty holds promise for repair of bone fractures

• Pediatric imagers put dose campaign on the road

• Molecular imaging enjoys progress on multiple fronts

DEPARTMENTS

Agenda

By: John C. Hayes

• Mid-year clinical update tracks radiology's course since the RSNA

Overread

• Ultrasound spots mammo misses, but at high cost

• MSCT issue: Will a milligray a day keep the doctor away?

• MR spectroscopy glutamate measures reflect craving for heroin in addicts

• PET emerges as staging exam for cervical cancer

• Cryotherapy proves effective for small renal cell tumors

• Case of the Month

Newsclips

• One-year mammography follow-up falls short

• Endovascular embolization curtails GI hemorrhages

• Endorectal MRI foretells prostate cancer prognosis

• Ultrasound could precede CT in acute appendicitis triage

• fMRI predicts benign brain tumors that turn malignant

• fMRI shows social drinkers can't escape alcohol traps

X-Ray Vision

By: John C. Hayes, Editor

• Debate portends radiology's shift from clinical to informatics-based

Tech Watch

• Las Vegas imaging center serves as proving ground

• Algorithm addresses match of CT and MR data sets

Special Section: Enterprise Imaging & IT

Storage Management

• Advantages of outsourced storage surpass expenses

Technological Developments

• Innovators team with vendors to broaden access to new tools

Informatics News

• PACS control debate- radiology or IT?-spices SIIM meeting

• SIIM vets discuss issues facing imaging informatics

• Even low-ratio compression changes what readers see

• Insurance filter sorts work list for teleradiologists

Comment

• PACS must avoid driving radiology, patients apart

Young Researchers

• High school student glimpses radiology through PE research

Intervention

• High-tech suite of the future integrates imaging, robotics

Perturbation

• Beware the binds that tie up your hands