Diagnostic Imaging North America

March 2008

COVER STORY

By: Greg Freiherr

• Coronary CTA: Can it survive?

DEPARTMENTS

Agenda

By: H.A. Abella

• Covering daily news for radiologists keeps this reporter alive and kicking

Overread

• PET alters management for one in three patients

• Image Gently alliance seeks to cut pediatric radiation

• Copayments turn older women off to mammography

• Case of the Month

Newsclips

• 3T MRI enhances knee osteoarthritis management

• PET/CT can predict therapy response in some lymphomas

• RSNA meeting sets record with 2007 show

• Medical students Google away for imaging data

• Order entry system attacks wasteful imaging referrals

• MSCT boosts diagnosis of perforated appendix

X-Ray Vision

By: John C. Hayes, Editor

• What's wrong with this list of imaging procedures? Plenty

Tech Watch

• High-tech cabinet helps hospitals manage agents

• Novel ortho device boasts high throughput, low dose, and 3D

Regulatory Issues

By: Alan Kaye, M.D., FACR

• CMS decision didn't come out of the blue

MR Contrast

By: Emily Hayes and H.A. Abella

• Imagers achieve peak results while cutting gadolinium dose

Molecular Imaging

By: James Brice

• Clinical FDG-PET use grows as research moves forward

Chest Imaging

By: Settimo Caruso, M.D., and Roberto Miraglia, M.D.

• Lung transplant patients may benefit from 64-slice CT scans

Perturbations

By: Eric Trefelner, M.D.

• Dwindling helium supply may bring black market

Special Section: Cardiovascular Imaging Supplement

Computed Tomography

• Cardiac CT exhibits clinical, cost benefits despite radiation risk

Noninvasive Imaging

• Coronary CT speed, resolution edge out catheter angiography

Imaging News

• New CPT codes raise rates, but billing problems remain

Comment

• Cardiologist visits RSNA, a technology wonderland