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Injection Rate Threshold of Triple-Lumen Central Venous Catheters

Rationale and Objectives Computed tomographic angiography (CTA) requires the rapid injection of contrast media ideally through an 18-gauge intravenous line in the antecubital fossa. Patients with ...

Image Quality of the Aortic and Mitral Valve With CT

Rationale and Objective The purpose of this study was to compare image quality and artifacts of 16-detector row CT imaging of the aortic and mitral valve when performing ECG-gated synchronization ...

Healing elixir

My great-grandmother was a formidable woman. She bore a dozen children, eight of whom made it to adulthood. Not long after the last child, she was widowed and her older children took on the chores ...

Fractal Analysis of Mammographic Parenchymal Patterns in Breast Cancer Risk Assessment

Rationale and Objectives To evaluate fractal-based computerized image analyses of mammographic parenchymal patterns in the task of differentiating between women at high risk and women at low risk ...

Enrollment in a Brain Magnetic Resonance Study Results From the Women’s Health Initiative Memory Study Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study (WHIMS-MRI)

Rationale and Objectives The rates of enrollment of volunteers for brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies vary by demographic and clinical characteristics. We use data from a large MRI stu...

Electronically intuitive---not me

I really cannot blame it on age, except that there are so many more electronic gadgets and computer applications each year. But I am not intuitive in addressing most of these electronic things that...

Digital Mammography Comparative Perf ormance of Color LCD and Monochrome CRT Displays

Rationale and Objectives To evaluate the comparative performance of high-fidelity liquid crystal display (LCD) and cathode ray tube (CRT) devices for mammography applications, and to assess the im...

Computer-Aided Mass Detection Based on Ipsilateral Multiview Mammograms

Rationale and Objectives Recent reports on advances in computer-aided detection (CAD) indicate that current schemes miss early-stage breast cancers and result in a relatively large false-positive ...

Computer-Aided Joint Space Analysis (CAJSA) of the Proximal-Interphalangeal Joint—Normative Age-Related and Gender Specific Data

Rationale and Objectives To provide reference data for computer-aided joint space analysis (CAJSA) based on a semiautomated and computer-aided diagnostic system for the measurement of joint space ...

Comparison of Three Methods to Increase Knowledge About Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Screening in Screening Mammography Patients

Rationale and Objectives The specific aim of the study was to determine which of several cost-effective interventions is best able to improve the breast cancer knowledge of women who present for s...