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Uncertainty has been the perceived Achilles heel of the radiology report since the inception of the free-text report...

..To study knowledge of radiation exposure among doctors of various grades and specialties in a large district general hospital...

..Assessment of the knowledge of non-radiological physicians concerning radiation exposure during radiological procedures on the thorax...

..MATERIALS AND METHODS: The author contribution lists of Radiology articles published between 1998 and 2000 with at least three authors were reviewed...

The sharing of radiologic images has become a fundamental part of radiology services and is essential for delivering high-quality care...

..We evaluated the economic effect on radiologists involved in litigation of failures in communication of results...

..Average effective dose for most nuclear medicine procedures varies between 0.3 and 20 mSv. These doses can be compared with the average annual effective dose from background radiation of about 3 mSv...

To determine different countries' trend of contribution to clinical radiology journals and its relationship with impact factor.

..Alternative response criteria in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and gastrointestinal stromal tumours are discussed...

The purpose of our study was to retrospectively evaluate the impact on recall rates and cancer detection when converting from film-screen to digital mammography in a small community-based radiology practice.

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: The authors evaluated the effect of training in the American College of Radiology (ACR) Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) lexicon on the interpretive skills of radiologists evaluating screening ..

..measurement of the practical peak voltage (PPV) in the quality control of X-ray units used in diagnostic radiology was carried out...

The purpose of our study was to determine the discrepancy rates of radiology residents' interpretations of emergent CT angiography (CTA) studies of the neck and circle of Willis and to assess any adverse clinical outcomes.

..In this paper, the authors review all these recent developments and their implications...

..The aim of this study was to create a classifier for automatic detection of chest radiograph reports consistent with the mediastinal findings of inhalational anthrax...

..In the future, radiology-specific KPIs such as those in use at the authors' institution may help provide a framework for measuring ..

..To examine the imaging features of non-small cell lung carcinomas (NSCLC) overlooked at digital chest radiography (dCXR), and compare general and thoracic radiologists' performance for lung carcinoma detection at dCXR...

Paediatric patients represent a very specific group within the radiology department. Compared to adult patients, they are more sensitive to radiation...

The perception of Radiology in the early 60s as paraclinical stems from the poor image the clinicians had for our limited resources in providing only plain fi lm studies, VIPs and the single contrast barium studies which exclude only ..

..69-0.74). Per-sextant localization and reporting provides a highly reliable framework in MRI of the prostate. MRI of the prostate should be followed up by the same radiologists to minimize systematic error of interpretation...

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The goals and current efforts of the Radiological Society of North America Radiology Reporting Committee are described...

To determine the management performance indicators most frequently utilized in academic radiology departments in the United States.

..To determine whether it is possible to develop a feasible, valid, and reliable multisource feedback program for radiologists. Materials and..

The overall health of academic radiology suffers from insufficient funds and manpower...

To investigate and compare the opinions and expectations regarding the radiology report of radiologists and referring clinicians and to identify trends, discordance, and discontent.

..org) was created to apply the technology and methods of collaborative authorship to create a dynamic online radiology educational resource...

In this review, which is part of a larger series on evidence-based practice in radiology, the relationship between technology assessment (TA) and the practice of evidence-based radiology (EBR) is discussed...

The ABR and the Radiology Residency Review Committee have focused their joint efforts in the past three years to improve radiology education...

The private practice radiology community relies on academic radiology departments to (1) do research and make advances in imaging science, (2) justify reimbursement for those advances, and (3) train new generations of radiologists...

The purpose of this study was to determine the discrepancy rates of radiology residents interpreting emergent neck and Circle of Willis magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) studies and to detect any adverse clinical outcomes...

..To evaluate an interactive computer-aided detection (CAD) system for reading mammograms to improve decision making...

To assess residents' exposure to professional turf battles, via a survey of the radiology residency class of 2005, and to assess perceptions about the causes, solutions, and impact of turf battles on resident education.

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There is a manpower crisis in academic radiology departments. These departments cannot sustain their academic missions from clinical revenues alone...

Evidence-based radiology (EBR) is an important tool for the practice of radiology...

..Influences in the United States health-care system require that the specialty of radiology emphasize a transition to more appropriate care to reduce waste, thus improving patient outcomes and reducing ..

..Radiologists may designate their cases to be public or private (viewable only by the case author), and cases may be retrieved on searching for multiple parameters...

..This study evaluates radiological imaging in suspected non accidental injury (NAI) in children below the age of 2 years in the Netherlands...

..Several images collections were created with this tool, including thoracic imaging that was subsequently made available on a CD-Rom and on our web site and through the MIRC network for public access...

..The European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM), the European Society of Cardiac Radiology (ESCR) and the European Council of Nuclear Cardiology (ECNC) in this paper want to present a position statement ..

The aim of this study is to develop a secure, Google-based data-mining tool for radiology reports using free and open source technologies and to explore its use within an academic radiology department...

The aims of this study were to use medical simulation as an assessment tool for the evaluation of radiology residents' compliance with contrast reaction treatment protocols and to gauge their perceptions of the simulation experience.

During the 20th century, the field of radiology experienced extraordinary growth and became an essential component of the practice of clinical medicine...

..such as direct observation of procedural skills and multisource feedback in assessment of the performance of radiology residents...

All radiology programs wish to attract the highest quality candidates to their radiology residencies. Departments expend considerable resources on Electronic Residency Application Service application reviews and student interviews...

..The h index is a recently developed tool to assess the impact of an author's publications. The purpose of this study was to apply and evaluate the h indexes of US academic radiologists...

Retention of academic faculty is a pressing issue for many radiology departments...

..We discuss how the addition of advanced search capabilities to the EMR can improve the radiologist's ability to integrate contextual data into workflows associated with both for diagnostic and interventional procedures...

..These "Guidelines for Training in Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance" were developed by the Clinical Practice Committee of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) and approved by the SCMR Board of Trustees...

To provide an overview of evidence-based medicine (EBM) in relation to radiology and to define a policy for adoption of this principle in the European radiological community.

To undertake a systematic review of literature on patient centred outcomes and explore the use of patient defined outcomes in radiology research.

..S. medical students applying for radiology residency and which sources of information about residency programs these medical students value most highly...

..American College of Radiology requirements for physicians and personnel performing and interpreting cardiac MRI, which will become applicable ..

..countries other than United States in the articles published in the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) and Radiology. We analyzed the association of these features with the type of research, the main technical features of the ..

..There is need for radiology residency trainers to understand the basic adult learning principles for effective teaching processes.

..A more detailed consideration of caveats, common questions, and challenges relevant to EBP in radiology then follows. These are issues that merit some thought by those beginning or continuing work in EBP.

..by authors as to their identities or institutions in their submission of original major manuscripts to two radiology journals with double-blinded peer review policies...

..Discovery of one complication should prompt the radiologist to search for coexisting pathologic conditions, which may alter management...

Intussusception is relatively uncommon, occurring in 0.5 to 2.3 cases per 1,000 live births in the USA. Radiology residents, therefore, have few opportunities to participate in intussusception reduction during training, and practicing ..

..with continuing medical education in the "lifelong learning " component of the American Board of Radiology's (ABR) Maintenance of Certification program...

The aim of this study was to compare radiology statistics and procedures across the world with an eye to lightening the workload of radiologists in Japan.

In this review, I examine the multifaceted role of radiology in the diagnosis, staging, and management of lung cancer, highlighting new applications and modalities such as computer-aided detection of lung nodules and positron emission ..

..It is important for radiologists to be familiar with these issues and to support efforts to control overutilization...

..The central question in this article is whether part-time medical specialists allocate their time differently to their tasks than full-time medical specialists...

..the authors tested the usefulness of the approach for assessment of perceptual and interpretation skills in radiology. A perception test (PT) and an interpretation test (IT) were designed according to the approach...

To retrospectively quantify the characteristics of published radiology research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and to retrospectively characterize the contribution of the individual NIH institutes.

..provide a motivating environment for employees becomes more important in the health-care system and thus also in radiology. The purpose of our study was therefore to evaluate job satisfaction of our team and to define important ..

..The database created from the DICOM header information was modified to include American College of Radiology (ACR) Learning File categories...

..However, they are likely to be incorporated into radiology training in the near future...

..support from the language contained in the current revision of the ACR Standard for Communication: Diagnostic Radiology, effective Jan. 1, 2002: .....

Although imaging technologies have undergone dramatic evolution over the past century, radiology reporting has remained largely static, in both content and structure...

..The purpose of this study is to analyze and summarize the latest data describing the diagnostic radiologist employment market...

To find out what final career choices were made by trainee doctors who had indicated a strong interest in pursuing a career in interventional radiology and to establish the reasons behind their final career choice.

Today's radiology is experiencing two major trends, one negative and one positive...

Despite dramatic innovation in medical imaging and information system technologies, the radiology report has remained stagnant for more than a century...

..The purpose was to (1) determine whether perceived OPTXs were truly occult or simply missed and (2) address factors that contribute to the poor sensitivity of the supine CXR...

..two reports giving recommendations dealing with the avoidance of deterministic injuries in interventional radiology and the management of patient dose in digital radiology in 2001 and 2004, respectively...

..There are two competing methods for improving the accuracy of a radiologist interpreting screening mammograms: computer aids (CAD) or independent second reading...

..The purpose of the present study was to determine the publication rate in Medline-indexed journals of papers originally presented at the Journées Françaises de Radiologie (JFR96)...

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..This white paper details a proposed action plan for the college derived from the deliberations of that panel...

..The major applications of ROC analysis will be discussed and their limitations will be addressed...

The Sun Valley Group is an informal assembly of individuals interested in improving quality in radiology. Its first meeting was held in September 2005...

..Importantly, they demonstrate a real-world adaptive functional role for the long-term flexibility of sensory systems in adulthood...

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The authors have created a radiology quality map to help understand the opportunities for improvement in the radiologic safety, reliability, quality, and appropriateness of examinations and interventions...

The radiology community has recognized the need to create a standard terminology to improve the clarity of reports, to reduce radiologist variation, to enable access to imaging information, and to improve the quality of practice...

..Early CT signs of cerebral ischemia are subtle. Little is known of which factors influence the detection of infarct signs. We compared neuroradiologists' scan readings with those of other specialists involved in the care of stroke patients...

..We describe a novel hybrid approach, combining regular expression matching with grammatical parsing, to address the above limitation in automatically detecting negations in clinical radiology reports.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether an integrated radiology curriculum in the first year of medical school changes medical students' attitudes toward radiology or affects their knowledge of radiologic principles.

..the speed of the examination, less skill required to perform or interpret studies (making it easier for radiology departments to provide this examination), excess CT capacity making it widely available, and greater ..

..because it is difficult to differentiate between viral and bacterial infections based on clinical signs or radiology of the presenting patient, and because single-antibody tests are notoriously prone to false positives...

..and Nursing and to the Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, Orthopaedics, Family Medicine, Social Medicine, Radiology, Epidemiology, Health Behavior and Health Education, Health Policy and Administration, and Biostatistics...

..and Nursing and to the Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, Orthopaedics, Family Medicine, Social Medicine, Radiology, Epidemiology, Health Behavior and Health Education, Health Policy and Administration, and Biostatistics...

..Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Neurology, Surgery and Radiology from the University of Michigan; the Departments of Neurology from the Henry Ford Hospital, and the Institute of ..

..from radiation exposure, In practice this requires a rigorous quality control process for clinical operations in radiology. Currently, a critical tool (a radiographic test phantom) needed for quality control is not commercially ..

This bioengineering-radiology-neurosurgery partnership aims to further develop and test the clinical utility of a novel method for non-invasive measurement of intracranial compliance (ICC) and intracranial pressure (ICP)...

..We evaluated the new methods using several data sets of monochrome medical images from cytogenetic and radiology applications, based on the criteria of (1) imperceptibility, (2) capacity, and (3) robustness of the embedded ..

..Computed tomography (CT) may replace radiography as the most common radiology examination. CT produces a large number of images that can be displayed in many formats...

The widespread adoption of picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) in radiology and the implementation and deployment of the DICOM communication standard represent an opportunity to link multiple PACS at multiple sites into a ..

..Computed tomography (CT) may replace radiography as the most common radiology examination. CT produces a large number of images that can be displayed in many formats...

..creation of electric white matter atlas 3ERFORMANCE SITE(S) (organization, city, state) Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Baltimore, MD 21205 KEY PERSONNEL. See instructions on Page 11...

..Other supports are from the Departments of Medicine, Pharmacology, Pathology, Radiation Oncology, Radiology, and the Division of Hematology/Oncology...

Interventional radiology offers excellent opportunities for image guided delivery of cancer therapeutics, including gene therapy; however, after delivery, it is uncertain to what degree the product is retained in the lesion for efficacy ..