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...

The other day, I noticed the 7-year-old granddaughter of one of my neighbors dialing a call on a cell phone as I stood talking to her grandmother. “Your phone, or her mother’s?” I asked. “Neither,...

This month’s issue of Academic Radiology contains an educational research study by Sistrom and Deitte ( ) on the performance of radiology residents in interpretation of after-hours and overnight ne...

Rationale and Objectives Use data collected independently at three institutions to compare time to first fixate the true lesion in searching for cancers on mammograms. Examine the fit of the resul...

Rationale and Objectives To expose students in the premedical years to imaging and its indications, to enhance their understanding of pathologic processes by allowing direct visualization, and to ...

Rationale and Objectives Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems based on shape analysis have been proved to be highly accurate in evaluating breast tumors. However, it takes considerable time to t...

Rationale and Objectives The development of parallel magnetic resonance imaging has resulted in the frequent use of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in clinical medicine, which usually involves th...

The third edition of Practical Pediatric Radiology continues to serve as a well-organized and well-written volume addressing the imaging of pediatric patients in regard to their clinical presentati...

Rationale and Objectives Compare stent size selection using coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) to invasive coronary angiography (ICA). CCTA is increasingly performed before cardiac ca...

Rationale and Objectives Pulmonary vascular control mechanisms are complex and likely to differ between species. We wish to quantify regional perfusion and the effects of gravity using computed to...