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| Julia R FieldingSummaryAffiliation: University of North Carolina Country: USA Publications
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MR imaging of pelvic floor relaxationJulia R Fielding
Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 101 Manning Drive, Campus Box 7510, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Radiol Clin North Am 41:747-56. 2003..Cases of isolated cystocele do not require imaging; however, in cases in which multiple compartments of the pelvis are involved or the patient has failed prior surgery, MR imaging should be considered for preoperative planning...
Practical MR imaging of female pelvic floor weaknessJulia R Fielding
Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Radiographics 22:295-304. 2002..In the appropriate patient, MR images provide relatively easy three-dimensional conceptualization of the pelvic floor and can significantly influence treatment planning...
Virtual pyeloscopy using volumetric depth peelingJulia R Fielding
Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599, USA
Acad Radiol 13:759-63. 2006..The aim of the study is to test a new volume-rendering method, volumetric depth peeling (VDP), for use in virtual pyeloscopy...
Choosing a specialty in medicine: female medical students and radiologyJulia R Fielding
Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 101 Manning Dr, Campus Box 7510, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
AJR Am J Roentgenol 188:897-900. 2007..The purpose of this study was to determine whether there are identifiable factors that dissuade female medical students from entering the field of radiology...
MR imaging of the female pelvisJulia R Fielding
Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Campus Box 7510, University of North Carolina Hospital, 101 Manning Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Radiol Clin North Am 41:179-92. 2003..This is true in the local staging of cervical cancer and the evaluation of pain or disability in the pregnant patient. Finally, in the evaluation of advanced gynecologic cancers, it is usually a secondary choice with CT preferred...
Magnetic resonance imaging of abdominal pain during pregnancyJulia R Fielding
Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Top Magn Reson Imaging 17:409-16. 2006..Gadolinium-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid is rarely used to diagnose inflammatory or obstructive disease and is reserved for those patients with suspected malignancies...
What is evidence-based medicine?Kelly H Zou
Radiology Management Group, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Acad Radiol 11:127-33. 2004..In this review article, we present the definition and useful concepts of evidence-based medicine (EBM). The principles of EBM are provided and major steps of practicing EBM are described...
Fecal incontinence in the postreproductive womanKatherine R Birchard
Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box 7510, 101 Manning Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Curr Womens Health Rep 3:405-9. 2003..Muscle and sphincter tears can also be visualized, although most fascial damage is incurred secondarily. The detailed information gained from an MRI can be used to plan optimal treatment, surgical or otherwise...
Neoadjuvant clinical trial with sorafenib for patients with stage II or higher renal cell carcinomaC Lance Cowey
Department of Medicine, Lineberger Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
J Clin Oncol 28:1502-7. 2010..This prospective trial evaluates the safety and feasibility of sorafenib in the preoperative setting...
Percutaneous biopsy of renal masses: sensitivity and negative predictive value stratified by clinical setting and size of massesFrank J Rybicki
Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
AJR Am J Roentgenol 180:1281-7. 2003..Negative results in small (< or = 3 cm) and large (> 6 cm) masses should be viewed with caution...
Reproducibility of dynamic MR imaging pelvic measurements: a multi-institutional studyMark E Lockhart
Department of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35249, USA
Radiology 249:534-40. 2008..To assess the reproducibility of bone and soft-tissue pelvimetry measurements obtained from dynamic magnetic resonance (MR) imaging studies in primiparous women across multiple centers...
Hypothesis testing I: proportionsKelly H Zou
Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Radiology 226:609-13. 2003..The statistical formulas used for these analyses are explained and demonstrated. These methods may enable systematic analysis of proportions and may be applied to many other radiologic investigations...
Etiology of spontaneous perirenal hemorrhage: a meta-analysisJian Qing Zhang
Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J Urol 167:1593-6. 2002..CT is the method of choice for evaluation of perirenal hemorrhage, although its sensitivity for detection of underlying etiology is only moderate...
US of acute scrotal trauma: optimal technique, imaging findings, and managementCorinne Deurdulian
Department of Imaging, W G Bill Hefner V A Medical Center, Salisbury, NC 28144, USA
Radiographics 27:357-69. 2007..A thorough familiarity with the US findings of scrotal trauma helps facilitate appropriate management. Supplemental material available at radiographics.rsnajnls.org/cgi/content/full/27/2/357/DC1...
PET in management of small pulmonary nodulesAmir H Khandani
Radiology 242:948-9; author reply 949. 2007
Levator ani thickness variations in symptomatic and asymptomatic women using magnetic resonance-based 3-dimensional color mappingLennox Hoyte
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 191:856-61. 2004..It may be used to compare levators in symptomatic and asymptomatic women, to study relationships between levator thickness and pelvic floor dysfunction. This technique can be used in larger studies for hypothesis testing...
Statistical validation based on parametric receiver operating characteristic analysis of continuous classification dataKelly H Zou
Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115 USA
Acad Radiol 10:1359-68. 2003..The validation metric area under the receiver operating characteristic curves may be generalized to evaluating the performances of several continuous classifiers related to imaging...
Tumor detection in the bladder wall with a measurement of abnormal thickness in CT scansSylvain Jaume
Telecommunications Laboratory, Universite Catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain la Neuve, Belgium
IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 50:383-90. 2003..Compared with an expert observer reading the CT, our algorithm achieves 89% sensitivity, 88% specificity, 48% positive predictive value, and 98% negative predictive value...
Tumor detection by virtual cystoscopy with color mapping of bladder wall thicknessJulia R Fielding
Department of Radiology and Division of Urologic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Urol 167:559-62. 2002..The low specificity of color mapped 3-D renderings makes the technique inappropriate for screening. It may valuable for guiding urologists to additional suspicious sites in a patient with a known tumor...
