Rationale and Objective Coregistered SPECT and CT imaging (SPECT-CT) has potential for more precise evaluation of regional pulmonary function and may be useful for prediction of postoperative lung...

Rationale and Objective The purpose of this study is to determine whether computational fluid dynamics modeling can correctly predict the location of the major intra-aneurysmal flow structures tha...

Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins’ update on Dr. Daffner’s introductory text on radiologic imaging is an outstanding resource even before the relatively affordable price and inclusion of online ac...

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...

Rationale and Objectives The purpose was to verify whether myocardial viability can be detected by a delayed enhancement magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) approach using a rapid three-dimensional i...

In this issue of Academic Radiology , Dr. Robb and colleagues ( ) detail the steps required to develop a novel texture analysis approach that can be used to classify and quantify the various pathol...

Rationale and Objectives We have observed that a very large fraction of responses for several detection tasks during the performance of observer studies are in the extreme ranges of lower than 11%...

Rationale and Objectives We sought to compare the cancer detection rate and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) area under the curve of full-field digital mammography, screen-film mammography,...

Rationale and Objectives To evaluate the ability of dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to differentiate several tumor entities of the parotid gland in a prospective clinica...

In January, as this is written, I have just read the text of President Bush’s state-of-the-union speech and I pondered over what his health care proposals might mean if they ever see legislative la...