2014 November/December

There’s a very important tradition that takes place in Chicago at the end of every November, and it doesn’t involve turkey or football—it’s the Radiological Society of North America’s Annual Meeting and Scientific Assembly.

As colorectal cancer screening research marches on and options for screening continue to be evaluated, one constant remains.

If you’re looking for pointers on how best to use social media for marketing your radiology practice, just go to your favorite search engine and key in the first three words of the headline above.

Image quality is vital to the overall quality of medical imaging service delivery. Instead of getting better with time, however, medical imaging quality assurance has declined due to technical, economic, cultural and geographic factors.

Radiology administrators have a lot on their minds these days. 

Two is better than one. At least that may prove to be the case with hybrid approaches that combine PET’s ability to assess myocardial blood flow with other modalities for diagnosing coronary artery disease.

When a child has appendicitis, it no longer is a hair-raising emergency bellyache.

Molecular imaging of psychiatric disorders has taken a few turns around the lab as a concept, and while some potential imaging methods, namely dopamine transport scanning, have shown some potential, the technique has not really taken off for psychiatric applications due to a mixed bag of results and a limited understanding of the pathophysiology.

I suspect RSNA will feel a bit different this year. Normally, the tens of thousands of attendees heading to Chicago from all over the world are coming to learn about the future—the future of imaging technology, the latest scientific discoveries, evolving practice recommendations, and so on.

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