We would like to thank Drs. Hochhegger, Irion and Marchiori for their kind comments and their thoughtful questions. The issue regarding appropriate density-mask thresholds for the characterization ...

Rationale and Objectives Podcasts and vodcasts (video podcasts) have become popular means of sharing educational information via the Internet. Materials and Methods In this article, we introduce...

The aim of this work is to review the techniques and clinical applications of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of the breast. Diffusion-weighted MR imaging plays a role in the dif...

Rationale and Objectives To assess the performance of an experimental prototype dual-energy (DE) chest imaging system in comparison to digital radiography (DR) in detection and characterization of...

Diagnostic and Surgical Imaging Anatomy: Ultrasound by A. T. Ahuja et al, as the title suggests, is the ultrasound component in the Amirsys collection of textbooks for viewing, understanding, and, ...

Rationale and Objectives The aim of this study was to develop a new tool for the early detection of inflammatory joint diseases using fluorescence imaging in the near-infrared (NIR) spectral range...

Rationale and Objectives The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) on radiologists’ estimates of the likelihood of malignancy of lung nodules on computed t...

Rationale and Objectives Patients with known Crohn’s disease (CD) and an acute onset of severe abdominal pain attending an emergency room frequently undergo contrast-enhanced emergency computed to...

Brain Imaging is an installment of the Dx-Direct: Direct Diagnosis in Radiology series published by Thieme. This book limits its scope to imaging of the brain. Spine and head/neck imaging are cover...

Rationale and Objectives To determine the impact of additional coronary calcium scoring on total effective radiation dose and diagnostic accuracy of low-dose computed tomography coronary angiograp...