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
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Study: Regular Mammography Screening Reduces Breast Cancer Mortality Risk by More than 70 Percent
November 30th 2023Consistent adherence to the five most recent mammography screenings prior to a breast cancer diagnosis reduced breast cancer death risk by 72 percent in comparison to women who did not have the mammography screening, according to new research findings presented at the annual Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference.
Chest CT Study Shows Higher Emphysema Risk from Combination of Marijuana and Cigarette Smoking
November 28th 2023People who smoke marijuana and cigarettes have 12 times the risk for centrilobular emphysema than non-smokers, according to new computed tomography (CT) research presented at the annual Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference.
