Rationale and Objectives To determine the impact of coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) on treatment decisions made by cardiac surgeons and to explore barriers to implementation of CCT...

Drs Cronin and Rawson would like to welcome you to the 2013 edition of the annual Radiology Alliance for Health Services Research (RAHSR) issue. Given the changing health care environment, health s...

Rationale and Objectives Given recent advances in and wider availability of complex imaging, physicians are expected to understand imaging appropriateness. We introduced second-year medical studen...

Rationale and Objectives To evaluate dual-energy computed tomography spectral and energy weighted (W) image data sets concerning carotid stenosis and calcified plaque detection. Materials and Met...

Rationale and Objectives There have been a large number of case-control studies using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The objective of this study was to perf...

Rationale and Objectives To compare the image quality and diagnostic confidence of low-dose computed tomography (CT) of urololithiasis using filtered back projection (FBP) and iterative reconstruc...

Rationale and Objectives Efforts to decrease radiation exposure during pediatric high-resolution thoracic computed tomography (HRCT), while maintaining diagnostic image quality, are imperative. Th...

Rationale and Objectives The purpose of this study was to compare different contrast agents for longitudinal liver and spleen imaging in a mouse model of liver metastasis. Materials and Methods ...

In this second edition, authors Donohoe and Van den Abbeele present a collection of 166 nuclear medicine cases with brilliant images and thoughtful discussion. The book targets radiology and nuclea...

Rationale and Objectives The purpose of this study was to assess if the presence of information including the pretest probability (Wells score), other known risk factors, and symptoms given on ref...