Rationale and Objectives Subpleural fat can be difficult to distinguish from localized pleural thickening (LPT), a marker of asbestos exposure, on chest radiographs. The aims of this study were to...

An enormous percentage of Americans are becoming overweight, obese, or morbidly obese . Obese population directly impacts the health care system with an increased incidence of diabetes and heart di...

Rationale and Objectives The aim of this study was to examine changes of brain iron content and diffusion patterns longitudinally in early-stage Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients using T2- and T2*...

Rationale and Objectives To systematically review and meta-analyze published data about the diagnostic accuracy of fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose ( 18 F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) an...

Rationale and Objectives Using low-dose computed tomography (LDCT), small and heterogeneous lung tumors are detected in screening. The criteria for assessing detected tumors are crucial for determ...

Rationale and Objectives To estimate and statistically compare the bias and variance of radiologists measuring the size of spherical and complex synthetic nodules. Materials and Methods This stu...

Rational and Objectives To evaluate whether addition of nonenhanced computed tomography (NECT) to intravenous contrast-enhanced (CE) abdominal CT improves detection or characterization of hypervas...

Rationale and Objectives To use a cine balanced steady-state free precession magnetic resonance enterography (cine MRE) pulse sequence to assess the effectiveness of a sublingual (SL) antiperistal...

Rationale and Objectives To perform a meta-analysis to assess the diagnostic performance of the diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) technique in discrimination of benign and malign...

Rationale and Objectives To investigate whether “full” iterative reconstruction, a knowledge-based iterative model reconstruction (IMR), enables radiation dose reduction by 80% at cardiac computed...