Rational and Objectives The liver is the most common organ for tumor metastasis. The development of new methods to depress hepatic metastasis is of great importance in improving survival. The aim ...

Rationale and Objectives Targeted molecular probes offer the potential for greater specificity in cancer imaging with contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT). We investigate a low-density lipop...

Rationale and Objectives Accurate image segmentation for breast lesions is a critical step in computer-aided diagnosis systems. The objective of this study was to develop a robust method for the a...

Rationale and Objectives To evaluate the quality of stent lumen delineation using dual-source computed tomography (DSCT) in the standard-pitch mode (SP) as compared to the high-pitch mode (HP) in ...

Rationale and Objectives Derivation of diagnostically relevant parameters from first-pass myocardial perfusion magnetic resonance images involves the tedious and time-consuming manual segmentation...

Rationale and Objectives To propose grid coordinate marker placement for patients with suspicious ductogram findings occult on routine workup. To compare the success of marker placement and wire l...

Thieme’s Direct Diagnosis in Radiology: Vascular Imaging is a portable, well-organized, and efficient review of some of the more common (and a few less common) diagnoses that one may encounter when...

Last summer, with a bit of pressure from my internist, I agreed to start on a diet and lose enough weight to ward off a variety of bad ailments over the next few years. As this is written, I have n...

Rationale and Objectives Lesion conspicuity is typically highly correlated with visual difficulty for lesion detection, and computer-aided detection (CAD) has been widely used as a “second reader”...

Rationale and Objectives Gadofosveset trisodium is a blood-pool contrast agent (BPA) that shows a less pronounced r1 relaxivity advantage over gadobenate dimeglumine at 3T than at 1.5T. However, t...