Showing papers in "Academic Radiology in 2017"

TL;DR: Although overall online attention to radiology journal content was low, alternative metrics exhibited unique trends, particularly for nonclinical articles, and may provide a complementary measure of radiology research impact compared to traditional citation counts.

TL;DR: Skeletal muscle measurements at the T12 level could permit the diagnosis of sarc Openia and could be used to correlate sarcopenia with outcome parameters in patients undergoing CT limited to the chest.

TL;DR: This pilot study of an abbreviated MRI protocol demonstrates effective performance in cancer detection and holds promise for resource-efficient breast cancer screening in high-risk women.

TL;DR: Facilities' adherence to PI-RADS v2 minimum technical standards was variable, being particularly poor for T2WI frequency resolution and DCE temporal resolution and the standards warrant greater community education.

TL;DR: The abbreviated protocol of magnetic resonance imaging of MRI may improve the detection rate of breast cancer in dense breast tissue, and it may be useful in efficient breast cancer screening.

TL;DR: It is important to understand the technique of CESM and how to incorporate it into practice, and to implement CESM into practice as a screening, diagnostic, staging, and treatment response tool.

TL;DR: This study represents one of the first prospective multicenter, controlled clinical trials comparing 64-row CCTA to MPI in the same patients, demonstrating superior diagnostic accuracy of C CTA over myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (MPS) to reliably detect >50% and >70% stenosis in stable chest pain patients.

TL;DR: Standards of agreement varies widely for different types of mammographic findings, even among dedicated academic breast radiologists, and studies that seek to evaluate the predictive value of certain mammographic features for malignancy should take into consideration the inherent interpretive variability for these findings.

TL;DR: An established cost accounting method is applied, the time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC), to assess the costs of performing an abdomen and pelvis computed tomography in an academic radiology department and identified opportunities for improved efficiency in the delivery of this service.

TL;DR: Twitter use for professional purposes among radiologists was disproportionately male, and Radiology is likely to see growth in the role of social networking in the coming years as nearly half of professional users are radiology trainees.

TL;DR: With relatively short training, readers from different medical specialties were able to distinguish suspicious from non-suspicious OCT imaging findings in ex vivo breast tissue as confirmed by histology, and these results support the potential of OCT as a real-time intraoperative tool for post-lumpectomy specimen margin assessment.

TL;DR: It is essential for the interpreting provider to recognize and differentiate abnormal FDG uptake associated with immune-mediated side effects from hypermetabolic malignant lesions when using F-18 FDG PET-CT for monitoring therapeutic effects of ipilimumab on melanoma lesions.

TL;DR: DBT is being adopted worldwide across all practice types, yet variations in examination indication, patient selection, utilization of s2D images, and access to DBT-guided procedures persist, highlighting the need for consensus and standardization.

TL;DR: Unlike B-US or PD-US, SWE is able to depict processes associated with tendon healing and may be a useful tool to monitor treatment effects.

TL;DR: The Association of University Radiologists Radiology Research Alliance Precision Imaging Task Force convened to explore the current and future role of imaging in the era of precision medicine and summarized its finding in this article.

TL;DR: The feasibility of predicting patients' response to chemotherapy using quantitative imaging markers computed from pre-therapy CT images is demonstrated, however, using image feature difference computed between pre- and post-ther therapy CT images yielded higher prediction accuracy.

TL;DR: This meta-analysis suggests that both MRI and CT have high diagnostic accuracy in detecting SB CD and MRI has the potential to be the first-line radiation-free modality for SB CD imaging.

TL;DR: The addition of the Fleischner Society guidelines to chest CT reports significantly increases the likelihood of receiving recommended follow-up care for patients with incidental pulmonary nodules.

TL;DR: Virtual monochromatic spectral CT images at 40 keV and 140’keV provide significant CT number differences between cholesterol gallstones and the surrounding bile and provide an excellent detection rate for cholesterol gallstone.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the thoracic and the lumbar QCT provide a similar and more sensitive method for detecting bone mineral loss when compared to DXA.

TL;DR: It is shown that oral contrast is noncontributory to radiological diagnosis in most patients presenting to the ED with acute nontraumatic abdominal pain, and these patients can therefore undergo abdominal CT scanning without oral contrast, with no effect on radiological diagnostic performance.

TL;DR: ABVS has the advantage of operator independence and better reproducibility although it is limited in evaluating axillary lymph nodes and lacks Doppler or elastrography capabilities, which sometimes provide important supplementary information in HHUS.

TL;DR: A system that provided definitions and illustrations of the medical and technical terms in radiology reports has potential to improve patients' understanding of their reports and their diagnoses.

TL;DR: Opportunity exists for substantial radiation dose reduction using existing CT technology for common diagnostic tasks using standard and jackknife alternative free-response receiver operating characteristic figures of merit.

TL;DR: The best available evidence recommends ultrasound as the diagnostic modality of choice for the diagnosis of ileocolic intussusception in children and in stable children without signs of peritonism, nonoperative reduction is the treatment of choice.

TL;DR: In smokers, a fully automated image processing tool is able to identify those individuals who have interstitial lung abnormalities with moderate sensitivity and specificity.

TL;DR: This review will inform the reader of which clinical skills can be trained with simulation, the types of commercially available simulators and their educational validity, and the assessment tools used to evaluate simulation training.

TL;DR: Both DCE-MRI and DSC-MRI are reliable techniques in differentiating the grades of gliomas, and rCBV was found to be the most sensitive one.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the performance of high-resolution dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for different zones of the prostate and evaluated its performance in the diagnosis of prostate cancer.

TL;DR: This article discusses how to conduct and lead a critical review of medical literature in the setting of a virtual or traditional journal club, and explains the advantages and disadvantages of VJCs over traditional venues.