AJR. American journal of roentgenology
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AJR Am J Roentgenol · Oct 2014
Journal club: Renal masses detected at abdominal CT: radiologists' adherence to guidelines regarding management recommendations and communication of critical results.
The purpose of this study was to assess radiologists' adherence to published guidelines for managing renal masses detected at abdominal CT at one institution and to a critical results communication policy. ⋯ In reporting renal masses detected at abdominal CT, radiologists largely adhered to management guidelines but did not adhere to the critical results communication policy in one of four reports. Subspecialization improved adherence to both management guidelines and the institution's critical result communication policy.
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AJR Am J Roentgenol · Oct 2014
Comparative StudyContrast-enhanced radial 3D fat-suppressed T1-weighted gradient-recalled echo sequence versus conventional fat-suppressed contrast-enhanced T1-weighted studies of the head and neck.
Traditional fat-suppressed T1-weighted spin-echo or turbo spin-echo (TSE) sequences (T1-weighted images) may be degraded by motion and pulsation artifacts in head-and-neck studies. Our purpose is to evaluate the role of a fat-suppressed T1-weighted 3D radial gradient-recalled echo sequence (radial-volumetric interpolated breath-hold examination [VIBE]) in the head and neck as compared with standard contrast-enhanced fat-suppressed T1-weighted images. ⋯ The radial-VIBE sequence is a viable motion-robust improvement on the conventional fat-suppressed T1-weighted sequence.
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AJR Am J Roentgenol · Oct 2014
Submillisievert chest CT with filtered back projection and iterative reconstruction techniques.
The purpose of this study was to compare submillisievert chest CT images reconstructed with filtered back projection (FBP), SafeCT, adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction (ASIR), and model-based iterative reconstruction (MBIR) with standard of care FBP images. ⋯ FBP, SafeCT, ASIR, and MBIR can enable optimal lesion evaluation on chest CT acquired at a volume CT dose index of 2 mGy. However, all submillisievert reconstruction techniques were suboptimal for visualization of mediastinal structures. Submillisievert MBIR images were suboptimal for visibility of normal lung structures despite showing lower image noise.
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AJR Am J Roentgenol · Sep 2014
Comparative Study Controlled Clinical TrialSmall-intestinal length measurement on MR enterography: comparison with in vivo surgical measurement.
The purpose of this study is to assess the feasibility and accuracy of small-bowel length measurement on MR enterography examinations compared with surgical in vivo measurements. ⋯ Small-bowel length measurements on MR enterography are accurate compared with anatomic measurements. MR enterography can provide an effective noninvasive investigation in planning surgical and nutritional intervention in patients with compromised bowel length.