Diagnostic Imaging North America

May 2005

COVER STORY

• Breast centers tune up for peak performance

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

• Targeted PET agents fulfill valuable diagnostic roles

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

• Hospital prices crawl out of their dark crypts

SUPPLEMENT: PACS & IT

Comment

• PACS, I'd like you to meet RHIO and P4P

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

• Template technology closes in on fully automated report

Imaging Research

• Radiology tackles broad range of applications with data mining

Marketplace

• Large PACS vendors woo small hospitals and centers
• Small vendors unite against behemoths

Imaging Workload

• Research initiative explores image management issues