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A few words about lobbying

During the 2008 presidential campaign, both the winner and the loser spent a considerable amount of rhetoric denouncing the activities of lobbyists, scorning (but not always spurning) donations fro...

3D-CT Volumetry of the Lung Using Multidetector Row CT

Rationale and Objectives The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of measurements of lung volumes reconstructed using three-dimensional computed tomographic (CT) imaging from thin-sectio...

The bookshelf

Practical Differential Diagnosis for CT and MRI by Lin et al is self-described as a “one-stop resource for the differential diagnosis of common and rare radiologic findings,” stating that it provid...

TB chest films

When I was a school boy, once a year, a big white van would pull into the school yard. We would be lined up, march out of class, and into the van, where a photofluorographic machine awaited us. “S...

Statistical Approaches for Modeling Radiologists' Interpretive Performance

Although much research has been conducted to understand the influence of interpretive volume on radiologists’ performance of mammography interpretation, the published literature has been unable to ...

Reducing the Number of Reader Interpretations in MRMC Studies

Rationale and Objectives Multireader, multicase (MRMC) receiver-operating characteristic studies often require large numbers of patients, readers, and reader interpretations. The objective of this...

Quantitative Measurement of Iodine Concentration in the Liver Using Abdominal C-Arm Computed Tomography

Rationale and Objectives C-arm computed tomography is an option on a C-arm angiographic system capable of acquiring projections while rotating the C-arm around the patient and reconstructing cross...

Prophylactic Vertebroplasty

Rationale and Objectives We investigated the efficacy of prophylactic cement injection into the vertebral body adjacent to fractured vertebra to prevent new fractures after percutaneous vertebropl...

Progression of Coronary Atherosclerosis After Heart Transplantation on Electron-beam Computed Tomography

Rationale and Objectives Cardiac transplant vasculopathy is the most important long-term complication of heart transplantation, with overlapping features with conventional, atherosclerotic coronar...

Prediction of Metastatic Disease and Survival in Patients with Gastric and Gastroesophageal Junction Tumors

Rationale and Objectives To investigate the accuracy of M staging (staging of metastatic disease) in esophageal carcinoma based on a visual interpretation and based on tumor volume measurements on...