Diagnostic Imaging North America
May 2005
COVER STORY
DEPARTMENTS
X-RAY VISION
John C. Hayes, Editor
Funding cuts imperil nuclear medicine's innovative tradition
AGENDA
Jane Lowers
Conference coverage builds year-round picture of radiology
Special Section SCMR
Sponsored by an educational grant from Siemens Medical Solutions
- Society expands influence, homes in on morphology and function
- Perfusion MR succeeds by evaluating all results
- DE-CMR demonstrates its predictive powers
- 3T disappoints in MRA diagnosis of coronary disease
- Multislice CTA outshines MRA in coronary arteries
Overread
- Advocates oppose planned cuts in clinical research
- Functional MRI tracks risk alert
- Large CT colonography trial opens with mixed reactions
- Cardiac CT makes progress in assessing myocardium
- Women on HRT have less coronary calcium, stenosis
- Cardiologists self-refer peripheral interventions
- Iodine-131 trips off false alarms in patient travel
Newsclips
- Radiologists, cardiologists square off before Congress
- MicroCT reveals vulnerable plaque's characteristics
- Long-term statistics on UAE show it tops myomectomy
- Low-dose MSCT sharpens pediatric lung images
- X-rays predict likelihood of death from SARS
- CT colonography dose varies little over years
Sports Medicine
- Imaging takes on central role in managing soccer injuries
- MRI provides best option for imaging groin injuries
Nuclear Medicine
Tech Watch
- CR vendors challenge DR with novel research efforts
- Web-based image access empowers Austrian patients
- Digital references streamline image interpretation process
- Wide-bore MR covers wide-bodied patients
Perturbations
SUPPLEMENT: PACS & IT
Comment
Informatics News
- Workstation face-off proves popular way to test systems
- Navy deploys teleradiology to Indonesia tsunami zone
- HIMSS tackles continuity of care with community EMR
- Health IT coordinator targets medical errors
- Upcoming PACS Events
- SCAR ponders broader direction for future efforts
- EMR improves overall quality of healthcare
- Hospitals take their time in EMR implementation
- China moves into the lead in growth rate for PACS
- Pacific Basin boasts lengthy tele-echocardiology link
- DICOM elements promise improved image quality
- System reduces need for phone consultations
- MiniPACS tames explosion of volumetric data sets
- Case tracking automates monitoring of reports
- Hospital puts the brakes on integrating cardiac PACS
- PDAs used in primary reads hold their own
Reporting Strategies
Imaging Research
Marketplace
Imaging Workload