Rationale and Objectives To determine lobar ventilation patterns in asthmatic lungs with hyperpolarized 3 He magnetic resonance imaging (HP 3 He MRI). Materials and Methods Eighty-two subjects...

Introduction Across the United States, financial pressures and health-care reform have resulted in a continuing trend of health-care consolidation, mergers, and the expansion of academic medical c...

Rationale and Objectives Meaningfully measuring physician outcomes and resource utilization requires appropriate patient risk adjustment. We aimed to assess Medicare patient complexity by physicia...

Rationale and Objectives In patients with severe emphysema and poor quality of life, bronchoscopic lung volume reduction (BLVR) may be considered and guided based on lobar emphysema severity. In p...

Purpose This study aimed to assess variability in imaging facilities’ adherence to the minimum technical standards for prostate magnetic resonance imaging acquisition established by Prostate Imagi...

Rationale and Objective We aimed to determine the frequency and clinical significance of homogeneous renal masses measuring 21–39 Hounsfield units on contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT). M...

Health insurance companies naturally focus most of their attention on quality, cost, and access to care. But changes in the way they pay for health care can also exert unintended and even unforesee...

Rationale and Objectives This study aimed to evaluate the effects of educating radiology residents and radiographers about radiation exposure on reduction of dose area product (DAP) and fluoroscop...

Rationale and Objectives For both airport baggage screeners and radiologists, low target prevalence is associated with low detection rate, a phenomenon known as “prevalence effect.” In airport bag...

Rationale and Objectives Correlation of imaging studies and reference standard outcomes is a significant challenge in radiology. This study evaluates the effectiveness of a new communication tool ...