During one of my college summers I helped the publisher of a weekly newspaper in the next county publish a centennial issue. It involved a month of interviewing people and writing biographical sket...

A few days before this is written and a few months before you read it, I passed my 75th birthday. It was a fairly quiet day. I worked on a book, took a nap in the afternoon, and had dinner with som...

Rationale and Objectives Estimation of ROC curves and their associated indices from experimental data can be problematic, especially in multireader, multicase (MRMC) observer studies. Wilcoxon est...

Rationale and Objective We sought to determine which is more effective in increasing skill in radiograph interpretation: a linear (PowerPoint-style) computer tutorial that locks the student into a...

Rationale and Objectives In this study, we compared the effect of focused ultrasound with the effect of thermal stress on the induction of a heat inducible promoter in an in vitro model using thre...

Rationale and Objectives Volumetric high-resolution scans can be acquired of the lungs with multidetector CT (MDCT). Such scans have potential to facilitate useful visualization, characterization,...

Rationale and Objectives Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has been used extensively in determining morphology and connectivity of the brain; however, similar analysis in the spinal cord has proven d...

Rationale and Objectives To estimate the gain in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in first-pass contrast-enhanced (CE) abdominal magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) at 3.0 T compared with 1.5 T. Mate...

Rationale and Objective We sought to assess the accuracy of a novel computerized volumetry method, called dynamic-thresholding (DT) level set, in determining the renal volume of pigs in CT images ...

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic pain condition characterized by widespread pain and tenderness that afflicts 2%–4% of the population in industrialized countries ( ). It is the second most common rhe...