Rationale and Objectives Our goal was to evaluate the role of contrast-enhanced gray-scale transrectal ultrasound (CETRUS)-guided prostate biopsy in patients with elevated serum prostate-specific ...

As radiologists, we are aware that the complexity of imaging has increased, along with the sophistication of modern medicine and of patient expectations and the demands of the regulatory environmen...

My friend Bob Gayler loaned me a small book that tells, in 100 tightly written pages, all an aspiring radiologist needs to know about how x-rays are generated, how patients should be positioned, an...

Rationale and Objectives We sought to evaluate the automatic detection of the papillary muscle and to determine its influence on quantitative left ventricular (LV) mass assessment. Materials and ...

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...

In 1956, the marketing team from Eastman Kodak, the dominant supplier of x-ray films, approached the American College of Radiology (ACR) with the results of a survey. Less than one in four patients...

Rationale and Objectives Mild cognitive impairment has been regarded as a pre-Alzheimer condition, but some patients do not develop dementia. The authors’ objective was to determine whether findin...

Rationale and Objectives Ultrasound image quality can be improved by imaging an object (here: the female breast) from different viewing angles in one image plane. With this technique, which is com...

Rationale and Objectives The purposes of the study were to determine (a) if radiology residents and fellows view their internship year as a valued prerequisite for their career as a radiologist an...

Rationale and Objectives Higher patient exposure levels have been reported for 64-row multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) compared to 16-row MDCT. The objective of this study was to make a th...