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Prior to Jettisoning the Radiology “Clinical Year,” the Medical School Fourth Year Warrants Understanding

Drs. Gunderman and Tobben provide an important argument regarding the utility—or rather, disutility—of the so-called “clinical year” in radiology training. The authors argue that because the fourth...

Most Common Publication Types in Radiology Journals

Rationale and Objectives This study aimed to assess the most common publication types in radiology journals, as well as temporal trends and association with citation frequency. Materials and Meth...

Measuring the Impact of Whole-Body Computed Tomography on Hospital Length of Stay in Blunt Trauma

Rationale and Objectives Whole-body computed tomography (WBCT) imaging has become commonplace in some emergency departments (EDs) for trauma where management is dependent on rapid diagnosis achiev...

Health Services Research Tools for the Next Generation of Radiologists

The Association of University Radiologists held their 62rd Annual Meeting in Baltimore, April 1–4, 2014. Many exciting posters, abstracts, and courses were presented at the meeting ( https://www.a...

Education in Professionalism

No star is ever lost once we have seen. We always may be what we might have been. Adelaide Procter Today, a number of organizations claim to be making big changes in the way medicine is taugh...

Education in Professionalism

The quality of a lamp’s light depends on the quality of oil poured into it. James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man We rate radiology practices in all sorts of different ways—the n...

Dual-energy CT Aortography with 50% Reduced Iodine Dose Versus Single-energy CT Aortography with Standard Iodine Dose

Rationale and Objectives Because many patients with aortic pathology also have compromised renal function, we wished to investigate dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) aortography with 50% redu...

Diabetes, Gray Matter Loss, and Cognition in the Setting of Parkinson Disease

Rationale and Objectives Parkinson disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder affecting motor and cognitive functions. Prior studies showed that patients with PD and diabetes (DM) de...

Comparison of Measured and Estimated CT Organ Doses for Modulated and Fixed Tube Current

Rationale and Objectives The aim of this study was to compare the directly measured and the estimated computed tomography (CT) organ doses obtained from commercial radiation dose-tracking (RDT) so...

Comparison of Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Perfusion Imaging in Differentiating Recurrent Brain Neoplasm From Radiation Necrosis

Rationale and Objectives To compare differences in diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and dynamic susceptibility-weighted contrast-enhanced (DSC) magnetic resonance (MR) perfusion imaging characterist...