In 1964, a report published by McCormack noted that the amount and complexity of nuclear medicine procedures was increasing and he suggested the 3 months of nuclear medicine training that diagnosti...

Rationale and Objectives Physicians from many specialties perform musculoskeletal biopsy. Using the Medicare database, we sought to determine which specialties represent the physicians who are per...

Rationale and Objectives Metabolite peak boundary definition is an important postprocessing step in proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ( 1 H-MRS). We compare metabolite ratios calculated usin...

Rationale and Objectives We sought to determine the relationship between tumor blood flow and glucose uptake in head and neck tumors using perfusion computed tomography (PCT) and fluorine-18-fluor...

Rationale and Objectives To evaluate whether a computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) technique can accurately classify breast calcifications in full-field digital mammograms (FFDMs) as malignant or beni...

Rationale and Objectives Electromagnetic tracking potentially may be used to guide percutaneous needle-based interventional procedures. The accuracy of electromagnetic guided-needle puncture proce...

Rationale and Objectives Polyethylene glycol−coated liposomal blood pool contrast agents maintain contrast enhancement over several hours. This study aimed to evaluate (long-term) imaging of pulmo...

Cardiovascular disease is not only the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Western nations, it is the leading cause of health care expenditures. It is estimated that the cost of the diagnos...

Rationale and Objectives The presence of opacified materials presents several technical challenges for automated detection of polyps in fecal-tagging computed tomography colonography ( ft CTC), su...

The proceedings of a workshop focusing on a project to evaluate the use of fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) as a tool to measure treatment response in non-Hodgkin lymphoma ...