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The Safety of Cardiac and Thoracic Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients with Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices

Rationale and Objectives Studies reporting the safety of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with a cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) have mostly excluded examinations with the...

The Detection of Focal Liver Lesions Using Abdominal CT A Comparison of Image Quality Between Adaptive Statistical Iterative Reconstruction V and Adaptive Statistical Iterative Reconstruction

Rationale and Objectives To investigate image quality characteristics of abdominal computed tomography (CT) scans reconstructed with adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction V (ASIR-V) vs cur...

Taking Resident Feedback Seriously A Hands-on Ultrasound Course

Introduction Resident feedback is a vital means by which to identify opportunities for program improvement . For many years at our institution, resident feedback highlighted the need for a formal ...

Quantitative Prediction of Stone Fragility From Routine Dual Energy CT

Rationale and Objectives Previous studies have demonstrated a qualitative relationship between stone fragility and internal stone morphology. The goal of this study was to quantify morphologic fea...

Low Risk Acute Coronary Syndrome—How High Is Low?

Consistently, 6–8 million patients visit to the emergency department (ED) for chest pain annually, with about 15% ultimately diagnosed with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) . Despite improved biomarke...

Long-Term Performance of Readers Trained in Grading Crohn Disease Activity Using MRI

Rationale and Objectives We aim to evaluate the long-term performance of readers who had participated in previous magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reader training in grading Crohn disease activity...

Impact of Reconstruction Algorithms and Gender-Associated Anatomy on Coronary Calcium Scoring with CT

Rationale and Objectives Different computed tomography imaging protocols and patient characteristics can impact the accuracy and precision of the calcium score and may lead to inconsistent patient...

Impact of Advanced Modeled Iterative Reconstruction on Coronary Artery Calcium Quantification

Highlights Advanced modeled iterative reconstruction causes substantial reductions of coronary artery calcium scores. Coronary artery calcium may no longer be detectable using ad...

For the Patient with “Low-risk Chest Pain”—How Low Is Low?

Patients who present to the emergency department (ED) with chest pain or other anginal-equivalent symptoms and have negative cardiac enzymes and nonischemic electrocardiograms (ECGs) are at low ris...

Fighting Small Numbers

In this issue, there are two opposing perspectives about testing patients at low risk for acute coronary syndromes (LRACS) in the emergency department (ED). The disagreement between the perspective...