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Cool Technology for Academic Medicine (with Shameless Emphasis on Radiology)

This book is about the contemporary use of personal technology to accomplish many of the nonpatient care tasks of an academic physician. It was written by three radiologists in academic practice. T...

Cars in My Life

A couple of weeks ago, when we were indulging in an afternoon social celebration, one of my guests commented that he was thinking of buying a new car because the one he had been driving was about t...

Can Whole-body Low-dose Multidetector CT Exclude the Presence of Myeloma Bone Disease in Patients with Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance (MGUS)?

Rationale and Objectives To determine the benefit of using whole-body low-dose computed tomography (WBLD-CT) in patients with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) for exclusio...

Breast Cancer Risk Assessment in 64,659 Women at a Single High-Volume Mammography Clinic

Rationale and Objectives In 2007, the American Cancer Society (ACS) recommended that women at elevated risk of breast cancer be screened with breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as an adjunct ...

A Semi-Automatic Algorithm for Determining the Demyelination Load in Metachromatic Leukodystrophy

Rationale and Objectives Metachromatic leukodystrophy is a lysosomal storage disorder leading to progressive demyelination of brain white matter. This is sensitively detected using magnetic resona...

Transcatheter Arterial Infusion with Heated Saline Changes the Vascular Permeability of Rabbit Hepatic Tumors

Rationale and Objectives The vascular permeability of tumors can be changed by transarterial infusion heat, but the mechanisms remain unknown. The aim of this study was to analyze the underlying c...

Simultaneous Arterial Spin Labeling Cerebral Blood Flow and Morphological Assessments for Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease

Rationale and Objectives The relative roles of arterial spin-labeling (ASL) perfusion imaging and magnetic resonance morphological assessment in diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have not been e...

Semiparametric Estimation of the Relationship between ROC Operating Points and the Test-result Scale

Rationale and Objectives Semiparametric methods provide smooth and continuous receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve fits to ordinal test results and require only that the data follow some ...

Positron Emission Tomography of Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma Xenografts in Mice Using Copper (II)-64 Chloride as a Tracer

Rationale and Objectives The aim of this study was to assess copper metabolism of human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with positron emission tomographic (PET) imaging using copper (II)-64 chlorid...

Noncontrast-enhanced MRI for Evaluation of Breast Lesions

This issue of Academic Radiology contains a report by Medved et al on their experience with noncontrast breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the evaluation of breast lesions using high spectr...