A senior radiology resident offered this endorsement of Huda’s Physics : “I read the whole book three times. The first time was just to learn the basics. The second time, I paid more attention to t...

We thank the authors for their interest in our work and we appreciate the opportunity to clarify several issues related to the use of binary versus multicategory rating approaches in observer perfo...

Rationale and Objectives We describe a step-by-step procedure for estimating power and sample size for planned multireader receiver operating characteristic (ROC) studies that will be analyzed usi...

Rationale and Purpose To evaluate the performance of a patient size–compensated automatic tube current modulation (PSC-AutomA) technique from the perspectives of image quality and radiation dose i...

Rationale and Objective Because lower limb muscles differ in architecture and function, the systemic effects of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and related disuse may result in region...

This book is a revised translation of the German edition: MRT von Abdomen und Becken , written by authors with tremendous experience in the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the abdomen ...

Rationale and Objectives The Socratic method has long been a traditional teaching method in medicine and law. It is currently accepted as the standard of teaching in clinical wards, while the dida...

Rationale and Objectives Hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) occurs during certain hepatobiliary surgeries, hemorrhagic shock, and veno-occlusive disease. Biochemical changes caused by hepat...

This issue includes an article on sample size estimation for receiver operating characteristic (ROC) studies. ROC studies are widely used to assess medical imaging systems and several such studies ...

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