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Role of Health Services Research in Radiology

In 2015, healthcare expenditures consumed nearly 17% of the gross domestic product in the United States—substantially higher than any other industrialized nation . As the cost of care in the United...

Radiology Education of Physician Extenders

As physician extenders (PEs) enter the medical community in large numbers, they have an increasing impact on imaging utilization and imaging-based procedures. Physician assistants (PAs) and nurse p...

Professional Social Networking in Radiology Who Is There and What Are They Doing?

Rationale and Objectives Although it is perceived that the use of social media professionally is increasing among radiologists, little is known about the habits and demographics of this subspecial...

Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms of the Pancreas

Rationale and Objectives Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs) are precancerous lesions of the pancreas. Computed tomography (CT) has been recommended to screen the malignant potential ...

Influence of Cardiovascular Risk Factors on the Prevalence of Coronary Atherosclerosis in Patients with Angiographically Normal Coronary Arteries

Rationale and Objectives Cardiovascular (CV) disease is predominately influenced by CV risk factors and coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) is capable of detecting early-stage coronary ...

Gadolinium Contrast Enhancement Improves Confidence in Diagnosing Recurrent Soft Tissue Sarcoma by MRI

Rationale and Objectives To determine how utilization of postgadolinium magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) influenced reader accuracy and confidence at identifying postoperative soft tissue sarcoma ...

Comparative Effectiveness of Imaging Modalities for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Intussusception

Rationale and Objectives The purpose of this study was to critically appraise and compare the diagnostic performance of imaging modalities that are used for the diagnosis of intussusception and me...

Automated and Manual Measurements of the Aortic Annulus with ECG-Gated Cardiac CT Angiography Prior to Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

Rationale and Objectives Multimodality evaluation of the aortic annulus is generally advocated to plan for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). We compared aortic annular measurements by...

Automated “Bone Subtraction” Image Analysis Software Package for Improved and Faster CT Monitoring of Longitudinal Spine Involvement in Patients with Multiple Myeloma

Rationale and Objectives The study aimed to assess the diagnostic benefit of a novel computed tomography (CT) post-processing software generating subtraction maps of longitudinal non-enhanced CT e...

A Tribute to Mark Richard Robbin, MD

Open full size image In January 2017, we lost a friend, colleague, and advocate for radiology education, Mark Robbin. Many of us know Mark through his leadership roles in musculoskeletal radiology...