Purpose This investigation is part of a prospective National Institutes of Health–funded study evaluating three different methods for estimating the optimal length for placement of a new nasogastr...

Rationale and Objectives Research suggests that the semiquantitative determination of nodal 18 F–fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake on positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) may...

When my son was born, 49 years ago, I remember going home from the hospital after I had been awake all night waiting for his birth. So once I saw the infant and his mother, I got in my car and drov...

Wu LM, Xu JR, Liu MJ, Zhang XF, Hua J, Zheng J, Hu JN. Value of magnetic resonance imaging for nodal staging in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: a meta-analysis. Acad Radiol. 20...

Rationale and Objectives Radiologists have traditionally left relaying exam results to patients in the hands of clinicians. Recent editorials have reexamined radiologists’ traditional position and...

Differential Diagnosis in Pediatric Imaging , a collaborative effort between Rick R. van Rijn and Johan G. Blickman as well as an international group of expert authors, is an excellent reference fo...

The second edition of Cambridge University Press’s Diagnostic Ultrasound: Physics and Equipment is a superb textbook that impressed me in many ways. Initially, I was concerned that based on its tit...

Rationale and Objectives Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) temperature imaging systems need to be routinely calibrated to guarantee accurate temperature results and qualified MRI. No independent ph...

A cynic is the man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. —Oscar Wilde It is unclear to whom Wilde was alluding. It may have been economists, but certainly not present-day...

Rationale and Objectives This study aimed to elucidate the diagnostic accuracy of F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) for nodal involvement in...