Starting in January 2011, the American College of Radiology (ACR) will offer month-long courses in radiologic-pathologic (rad-path) correlation, which have been presented for 60 years by the Armed ...

Rationale and Objectives The quantification of coronary calcification has established itself as a valid risk marker to predict cardiovascular events. However, data derived from cardiac multi–detec...

Rationale and Objectives The aim of this prospective, randomized animal study was to compare a new computer guided needle–based navigation system for liver biopsy with conventional computed tomogr...

Objectives Metabolic syndrome affects 20-30% of adults and is increasing in prevalence, making it a leading public health issue. Radiologists often encounter images of obese patients during routin...

Rationale and Objectives The Resident Review Committee (RRC) recently changed the policy concerning first-year resident call. Our study is intended to evaluate whether the additional 6 months of t...

Rationale and Objectives Abdominopelvic computed tomography (APCT) is often performed in patients with skeletal Ewing sarcoma family of tumors during initial staging and for subsequent clinical in...

Editor: Pickhardt et al. provided further evidence that “flat lesions…do exist in a typical US screening population.” We agree. However, we disagree with the authors’ conclusion that “flat lesions...

Welcome to the geriatric cruise. I wrote this while we were on it. This is not a biased criticism. Diana and I are both qualified to the median age of the 600 passengers from around the world who ...

Rationale and Objectives The aim of this study was to optimize and validate projection-space denoising (PSDN) strategies for application to 80-kV computed tomographic (CT) data to achieve 50% dose...

Rationale and Objectives Accurate assessment of the morphology of sacroiliac joint (SIJ) bone cortex and cartilage bears importance in terms of detecting sacroiliitis in its earliest period. The a...