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How to spot troublesome patients

By Dr. Paul McCoubrie

Detecting awkward and noncompliant patients is a valuable skill mainly derived from years of experience and a sixth sense. Dr. Paul McCoubrie reveals his "evidence-free" clinical tips and hints to assist readers in picking out potential troublemakers.

June 18, 2013

UKRC Frontpage Video Teaser

June 18, 2013

EDAP gets CE Mark for Focal.One

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

French therapeutic ultrasound developer EDAP TMS has received the CE Mark for its Focal.One robotic high-intensity focused ultrasound device.

June 17, 2013

Time-of-flight PET detectors: The next generation

By Tami Freeman, PhD

Detectors for use in time-of-flight PET must offer high detection efficiency, good spatial and energy resolution, and excellent timing resolution, as well as provide depth of interaction information. A promising candidate that meets all of these requirements is the monolithic scintillator detector.

June 17, 2013

CT perfusion salvages nondiagnostic CTA for stent assessment

By Eric Barnes

Combining CT perfusion scans with CT angiography (CTA) can improve the diagnosis of coronary artery disease in stent patients, visualizing stenotic vessel segments that CTA alone is hard-pressed to characterize, German researchers reported today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

June 17, 2013

UKRC video: Implementing structured reports

By Philip Ward

What practical steps must be taken to realize the alleged benefits of structured reports? Dr. Jan Bosmans, PhD, from Ghent in Belgium, and healthcare informatics columnist Dr. Neelam Dugar give their advice in a video recorded at last week's U.K. Radiological Congress (UKRC).

June 16, 2013

ESR survey: Don't write off ultrasound

By Rebekah Moan

Although MRI and CT attract the most attention, a new survey from the European Society of Radiology (ESR) found that ultrasound still plays a major role in radiology departments. In addition, a centralized ultrasound laboratory seems to be what the future holds.

June 16, 2013

ESR brings in new council members

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The European Society of Radiology (ESR) has filled a number of positions on its Executive Council.

June 13, 2013

New Twitter Feed

June 13, 2013

CR, DR breast cancer screening performance comparable

By Kate Madden Yee

Radiologists reading breast screening studies had comparable performance regardless of whether the images were acquired with computed radiography (CR) or digital radiography (DR) mammography systems, according to a Belgian study published online in European Radiology. Still, DR delivered a lower radiation dose than CR.

June 13, 2013

French society releases guide on interventional radiology

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Interventional radiologists can now access an online practical guide to interventional radiology, released by the French Society of Radiology (SFR) and the Federation of Interventional Imaging.

June 12, 2013

New approach may elevate thyroid elastography performance

By Erik L. Ridley

Ultrasound elastography has established a role in breast imaging, and the thyroid is one of the next clinical applications on the horizon. Polish researchers recently unveiled a new data analysis method that may improve the technique's ability to characterize benign from malignant thyroid nodules.

June 12, 2013

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