Rationale and Objectives Among the various medical disciplines, the radiology residency faces unique challenges when balancing clinical service and education, which have not been explored in the l...

“Triple rule-out” (TRO) computed tomography is an electrocardiographically synchronized study of the chest intended to allow the evaluation of three important causes of acute chest pain with one te...

Rationale and Objectives Research on communication between radiologists and women undergoing screening and diagnostic mammography is limited. We describe community radiologists’ communication prac...

Rationale and objectives The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the use of a phantom to standardize low-dose chest computed tomographic (CT) protocols in children with cystic fibrosis. Mate...

In 1895, Wilhelm Roentgen started the use of attenuation-based x-ray projection (shadowgraph) imaging , which revolutionized medical diagnosis. This was followed in 1972 by the introduction of clin...

Rationale and Objectives The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of various tube currents on the accuracy of volumetric measurements of ground-glass opacity (GGO) nodules using a ches...

Rationale and Objectives The purposes of the present study were to investigate the impact of viewing size on soft-copy diagnosis for detecting abnormalities on digital chest radiographs and to ver...

Rationale and Objectives We sought to derive normative reference values for the thoracic great vessels using multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) in a healthy normotensive non-obese population...

For most of my career, I have written about advances in health care as a repetitive theme. The themes were primarily radiologic. I started just in time to write about mammography, angiography and a...

Rationale and Objectives The aim of this study was to assess potential quality assurance (QA) issues in the diagnosis and characterization of adnexal masses on pelvic computed tomographic (CT) and...