Did you ever telephone a fish? How about jugging? What about hogging? These are all methods of catching fish that were sometimes in use in the turgid waters of the mid-south, where I grew up. One ...

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 As a component of the practice-based core competency of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, all radiology residents must receive training to be able ...

“In some countries, x rays are used to make x-ray images.” Read that sentence again. Notice anything peculiar about it? Why is the common term for ionizing radiation spelled differently? The only ...

Rationale and Objectives We sought to assess whether or not prevalence levels affected the confidence ratings of readers during the interpretation of cases in a laboratory receiver operating chara...

Rationale and Objectives Free-response data consist of a set of mark-ratings pairs. Before analysis, the data are classified or “scored” into lesion and non-lesion localizations. The scoring is do...

Rationale and Objectives The purpose of this study is to document the degree of self-subsidization of educational expenses by senior radiology residents. Materials and Methods Questionnaires wer...

Oral contrast agents used during CT colonography (CTC) are valuable and may reduce false positive and false negative detections due to stool and residual fluid. Electronic cleansing algorithms are ...

Rationale and Objectives Xenon-enhanced computed tomography (Xe-CT) measures regional ventilation from changes in lung parenchymal CT density during the multibreath washin/washout of inhaled Xe ga...

Rationale and Objectives To examine the effects of the number of categories in the rating scale used in an observer experiment on the results of ROC analysis by a simulation study. Materials and ...