Yet another book on chest radiology! There are several excellent introductory chest imaging books such as Cardiopulmonary Imaging: The Core Curriculum Series by Kazerooni and Gross or Thoracic Imag...

Rationale and Objectives In cardiovascular computed tomography (CT), thin collimation results in a large number of images per examination. Moreover, interpretation relies on multiplanar reformatte...

Form follows function—that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. Frank Lloyd Wright The performance of radiology organizations is a product of t...

As a cub reporter on my hometown newspaper some decades ago, I was given to write all of the things the senior staff wanted to avoid. One category of such chores was the obituaries. Usually, the f...

Authors are frequently frustrated by the long lead-time between the submission of articles and their subsequent publication. Acad Radiol has attempted to decrease this time but it still takes on av...

Rationale and Objectives To evaluate the correlation between enhancement parameters of multiphase contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) and immunohistochemical activities of vascular endothel...

When I came to live in the big cities of Chicago and Washington, my mother visited us. She had grown up and lived in a small town where she knew everyone and where my sister lived next door. She l...

Rationale and Objectives We surveyed radiology residents to understand which information sources residents use to learn radiology. Materials and Methods A 15-question survey on learning resource...

Rationale and Objectives Although most would concur that preclinical exposure to radiology is a desirable goal, specific learning objectives have been more difficult to delineate. It is also impor...

Rationale and Objectives The acceptance of computer-assisted diagnosis (CAD) in clinical practice has been constrained by the scarcity of identifiable biologic correlates for CAD-based image param...