The following abstracts of diagnostic radiology research and training grants funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were awarded to principal investigators (PIs) whose primary appointmen...

Rationale and Objectives The authors report study protocols and initial clinical experience in assessing patients with acute and chronic cerebrovascular disorders using the recently introduced tec...

Rationale and Objectives 18-Fluoro-2-deoxyglucose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) is effective but costly in the early detection of recurrence for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) in pa...

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Rationale and Objectives To retrospectively investigate the prevalence of tracheal collapse in an emphysema cohort. The occurrence of a large degree of tracheal collapse may have important implica...

Rationale and Objectives The aim of the present study was to examine the usefulness and record the complications of preoperative lipiodol marking using computed tomographic (CT) fluoroscopy for th...

Rationale and Objectives The authors present their initial experience using a 3-T whole-body scanner equipped with a 128-channel coil applied to lung motion assessment. Recent improvements in fast...

Rationale and Objectives The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of mean heart rate (HR) and HR variability on image quality in low-dose computed tomographic coronary angiography (CTCA) u...

Rationale and Objectives Chronic hemodialysis requires a vascular access that provides high blood-flow rates for the extracorporeal recirculation of blood. Synthetic arteriovenous (AV) grafts ofte...

This is being written in September, before Americans choose a new president and Congress, as Congress labors to curb panic in financial markets by invoking two thirds of a trillion taxpayer dollars...