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Impact of an Educational Intervention Designed to Reduce Unnecessary Recall during Screening Mammography

Rationale and Objectives The aim of this study was to describe the impact of a tailored Web-based educational program designed to reduce excessive screening mammography recall. Materials and Meth...

Hypothesis Testing in Noninferiority and Equivalence MRMC ROC Studies

Rationale and Objectives Conventional multireader multicase receiver operating characteristic (MRMC ROC) methodologies use hypothesis testing to test differences in diagnostic accuracies among sev...

Evaluating and Writing Education Papers Compared with Noneducation Papers

The field of medical education research is growing rapidly, but educational research has been widely criticized for its lack of a scientific approach, poor theoretical frameworks or study designs, ...

Effective Radiation Dose in CT Colonography Is There a Downward Trend?

Rationale and Objectives Radiation dose is an important drawback of computed tomography (CT) colonography, especially for its use as a screening tool for colorectal cancer. It is therefore importa...

Diagnostic Accuracy Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging in the Diagnosis of ALS

Rationale and Objectives A number of studies have reported decreases in fractional anistropy (FA) in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). The purpose of this study w...

Comparative Effectiveness of Imaging Modalities for the Diagnosis of Upper and Lower Urinary Tract Malignancy A Critically Appraised Topic

Rationale and Objectives The purpose of this study was to critically appraise and compare the diagnostic performance of imaging modalities that are used for the diagnosis of upper and lower/bladde...

Clinical Cardiac CT Anatomy and Function

This second edition focuses on cardiac computed tomography (CT) with two chapters dedicated to aortic diseases. The book contains 16 chapters and includes a discussion of cardiac CT imaging techniq...

Can Understanding the Brain Enhance Radiology?

At the March 2012 annual meeting of the Association of University Radiologists, the Association of Medical Students in Radiology (AMSER) Lucy Squire and Association of Program Directors in Radiolog...

Assessment of Vascular Contrast and Depiction of Stenoses in Abdominopelvic and Lower Extremity Vasculature

Rationale and Objectives To assess whether dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) angiography improves vascular contrast beyond MDCT angiography and digita...

A New Alarm System

As this is being written on a cold January day, a sturdy young man is drilling, hammering, and wiring to install a home alarm system for us. In my wife’s ambition and intent, this is our mutual Chr...