Diagnostic Imaging North America - June 2010

COVER STORY

By: Greg Freiherr

• SPECT/CT boosts image quality, cuts radiation

DEPARTMENTS

Overread

• Breast surgeons to tackle screening mammography

• Poor ergonomic design plagues reading rooms

• Tips for relieving workstation strain

• Nothing wrong with techs seeking a 'time out'

Newsclips

• Breast-specific gamma scans monitor chemo

• Cardiac imaging system reduces scan time

• Pathologist onsite cuts repeat thyroid biopsies

• PET/CT detects colorectal cancer recurrences

• FDG-PET/CT identifies aortic dissection

Enterprise Imaging and IT Special Section

ADVANCED VISUALIZATION

• 2D PACS has had its day in the sun, now 3D PACS is moving in

FEDERAL POLICY

• Advocates work to build radiology's place in healthcare reform infrastructure

NEURORADIOLOGY

• Electronic brain atlases emerge as clinical and educational tool

DATA MANAGMENT

• Remote image archiving relieves hospital of storage and obsolescence challenges

X-Ray Vision

• Health reform is one thing, but legislators are not physicians

Musculoskeletal

• Imaging tools help refine diagnosis of osteoporosis

Abdominal

• Multidetector CT reveals diverse variety of abdominal hernias

Technology to Practice

• How to get the gain without the pain in shift to 3T MR

• Shearwave elastography improves breast lesion Dx

Perturbations

• Watch out if depression doesn't show up on x-ray