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Communicating Results Directly to Patients: Don't Ignore the Price Tag of This Added “Value”
June 2012 (Vol. 19 | No. 6 | Pages 643-645)
Saurabh Jha
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Direct Reporting of Results to Patients: The Future of Radiology?
June 2012 (Vol. 19 | No. 6 | Pages 646-650)
Melanie Kuhlman, Monique Meyer, Elizabeth A. Krupinski

Engineering and Radiology: Implications for Education
16 May 2012
Richard B. Gunderman, Todd A. Rickett
There is considerable common ground between radiology and engineering. The imaging equipment radiologists use each day was designed and is maintained by engineers. Innovation in radiology, such as the...
Semi-Automatic Segmentation Software for Quantitative Clinical Brain Glioblastoma Evaluation
16 May 2012
Ying Zhu, Geoffrey S. Young, Zhong Xue, Raymond Y. Huang, Hui You, Kian Setayesh, Hiroto Hatabu, Fei Cao, Stephen T. Wong
Rationale and Objectives: Quantitative measurement provides essential information about disease progression and treatment response in patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). The goal of this arti...
Radiofrequency Ablation of the Liver: Effect of Variation of Portal Venous Blood Flow on Lesion Size in an In-vitro Perfused Bovine Liver
16 May 2012
Liping Huang, Gerald D. Dodd III, Anthony C. Lanctot
Rationale and Objectives: An in vitro perfused bovine liver model was used to evaluate the relationship between the sizes of radiofrequency ablation lesions and variation in portal venous blood flow. ...
Hyperpolarized 129Xe Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Tolerability in Healthy Volunteers and Subjects with Pulmonary Disease
16 May 2012
Yajur Shukla, Andrew Wheatley, Miranda Kirby, Sarah Svenningsen, Adam Farag, Giles E. Santyr, Nigel A.M. Paterson, David G. McCormack, Grace Parraga
Rationale and Objectives: The objective of this study was to evaluate the tolerability of hyperpolarized 129Xe gas inhaled from functional residual capacity and magnetic resonance imaging in healthy s...
Radiofrequency Ablation of Retroperitoneal Metastatic Lymph Nodes from Hepatocellular Carcinoma
16 May 2012
Fei Gao, Yangkui Gu, Jinhua Huang, Ming Zhao, Peihong Wu
Rationale and Objectives: To retrospectively evaluate effectiveness and safety of radiofrequency (RF) ablation with retroperitoneal metastatic lymph nodes from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Material...

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