Journal ArticleJ Magn Reson Imaging · August 2023
BACKGROUND: The T2 w sequence is a standard component of a prostate MRI examination; however, it is time-consuming, requiring multiple signal averages to achieve acceptable image quality. PURPOSE/HYPOTHESIS: To determine whether a denoised, single-average ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI · January 2023
BackgroundThere is a sparsity of data evaluating outcomes of patients with Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) (LR)-M lesions.PurposeTo compare overall survival (OS) and progression free survival (PFS) between hepatocellular ...
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Journal ArticleAbdom Radiol (NY) · November 2022
BACKGROUND: Portal vein thrombus (PVT) in cirrhotic patients is associated with worsening portal hypertension, leads to increased complexity of necessary interventions such as transjugular liver portosystemic shunt or liver transplantation, and is associat ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · October 2021
Background Reliance on examination reporting of unexpected imaging findings does not ensure receipt of findings or appropriate follow-up. A closed-loop communication system should include provider and patient notifications and be auditable through the elec ...
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Journal ArticleJ Vasc Interv Radiol · September 2021
PURPOSE: To report initial clinical experience with intravascular ultrasound (US)-guided transvenous biopsy (TVB) for perivascular target lesions in the abdomen and pelvis using side-viewing phased-array intracardiac echocardiography catheters. MATERIALS A ...
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Journal ArticleJ Comput Assist Tomogr · May 2021
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to assess the impact of tube voltage and image display on the identification of power ports features on anterior-posterior scout images to inform optimal workflow for multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) exami ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Coll Radiol · February 2021
PURPOSE: To compare the effectiveness of different reporting templates using the ACR Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System (TI-RADS) for thyroid ultrasound. METHODS: In this retrospective study, four radiologists implemented ACR TI-RADS while dictating ...
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Journal ArticleTop Magn Reson Imaging · February 1, 2021
Stricturing and penetrating disease are complications of Crohn disease (CD) that significantly affect patient outcomes. Careful evaluation for such complications is critical to the interpretation of magnetic resonance enterography. This manuscript outlines ...
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Journal ArticleAbdom Radiol (NY) · October 2020
PURPOSE: To determine whether LI-RADS ancillary features predict longitudinal LR-3 observation category changes. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This exploratory, retrospective, single-center study with an independent reading center included patients who underwent ...
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Journal ArticleClin Imaging · May 2020
PURPOSE: To compare the efficacy of two 18-gauge core needle biopsy systems, the Achieve® (Merit Medical) and the Marquee® (BD Bard), using an ex-vivo animal liver model and retrospective review of clinical experience. METHODS: Sixty ex-vivo liver biopsy s ...
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Journal ArticleAbdom Radiol (NY) · April 2020
PURPOSE: To survey Society of Abdominal Radiology Crohn's Disease (CD) Disease-Focused Panel (DFP) members to understand state-of-the-art CT/MR enterography (CTE/MRE) protocols and variability between institutions. METHODS: This study was determined by an ...
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Journal ArticleAcad Radiol · February 2020
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: To objectively and subjectively evaluate a large, academic radiology department's transition to electronic health record (EHR) centered workflow. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Multiple metrics were compared from before and after the move ...
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Journal ArticleRadiographics · 2020
Representatives from the Society of Abdominal Radiology Crohn's Disease-Focused Panel, the Society for Pediatric Radiology, the American Gastroenterological Association, and other international experts recently reported consensus recommendations for standa ...
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Journal ArticleAbdom Radiol (NY) · March 2019
PURPOSE: To evaluate factors that may affect successful ultrasound-guided percutaneous thrombin injection of iatrogenic femoral artery pseudoaneurysms (PSA). MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was an IRB-approved, HIPAA-compliant retrospective study of 326 consec ...
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Journal ArticleJ Comput Assist Tomogr · 2019
PURPOSE: This study aimed to develop an automated, quantitative method to increase the likelihood of identifying and preventing such air-in-oil (AIO) artifact. METHODS: A 1-dimensional radial representation of the 2-dimensional noise power spectrum (NPS) w ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · June 2018
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to compare visualization rates of the major features covered by Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) version 2014 in patients at risk for hepatocellular carcinoma using either gadobenate dimeglumine or g ...
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Journal ArticleGastroenterology · March 2018
Computed tomography and magnetic resonance enterography have become routine small bowel imaging tests to evaluate patients with established or suspected Crohn's disease, but the interpretation and use of these imaging modalities can vary widely. A shared u ...
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Journal ArticleJ Comput Assist Tomogr · 2018
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine potential radiation dose reduction of contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT) for imaging necrotizing pancreatitis (NP) using a noise addition tool. METHODS: Eighty-four patients were identified with at least 1 ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · December 2017
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to describe a specific type of blunt traumatic mesenteric injury called a bucket-handle tear, review its varied CT appearances, and discuss the role of CT in its detection. CONCLUSION: A bucket-handle mesenteric inju ...
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Journal ArticleJ Magn Reson Imaging · September 2017
PURPOSE: To identify demographic and imaging features in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that are associated with upgrade of Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) category 4 (LR-4) observations to category 5 (LR-5), and to assess their effects ...
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Journal ArticleAbdom Radiol (NY) · September 2017
PURPOSE: To compare the content and accuracy of structured reporting (SR) versus non-structured reporting (NSR) for computed tomographic enterography (CTE) of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). MATERIALS AND METHODS: This IRB-approved, HIPAA-compliant, retr ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Coll Radiol · August 2017
OBJECTIVES: To compare male and female radiology faculty publication productivity metrics at four major academic centers. MATERIALS AND METHODS: All Radiology Department faculty members at four academic medical centers from January 1, 2000, to December 31, ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · February 2017
Purpose To determine, in a multicenter double-blinded placebo-controlled trial, whether maximal hepatic arterial phase breath-holding duration is affected by gadoxetate disodium administration. Materials and Methods Institutional review board approval was ...
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Journal ArticleAbdom Radiol (NY) · January 2017
One of the significant challenges facing radiologists who perform and interpret studies of the gastrointestinal and genitourinary systems have been periodic interruptions in the availability of barium and iodinated contrast media specially formulated for g ...
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Journal ArticleCurr Probl Diagn Radiol · 2017
PURPOSE: To objectively compare the content of structured reports (SR) vs nonstructured reports (NSR) for magnetic resonance enterography (MRE) of pediatric patients with Crohn's disease, and to evaluate referring clinicians' subjective assessment of repor ...
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Journal ArticleJ Comput Assist Tomogr · 2017
PURPOSE: This study aimed to assess the effect of a low-rank denoising algorithm on quantitative magnetic resonance imaging-based measures of liver fat and iron. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was an institutional review board-approved, Health Insurance Porta ...
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Journal ArticleJ Gastrointest Oncol · December 2016
Colonic metastases from gastric cancer are a rare phenomenon and sparsely reported in the literature. We report a case of a 59-year-old woman who presented with vague abdominal symptoms and initial computer tomography (CT) imaging suggestive of a colonic a ...
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Journal ArticleAbdom Radiol (NY) · December 2016
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most prevalent hemoglobinopathy. Survival in patients with SCD has improved over the past few decades. These patients experience a lifetime of repeated acute pain crises, which are thought to result from sickling and microv ...
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Journal ArticleAbdom Radiol (NY) · July 2016
PURPOSE: To assess the diagnostic performance of MDCT in the diagnosis of closed loop small bowel obstruction. MATERIALS AND METHODS: One hundred fifty patients with CT reports including "small bowel obstruction (SBO)" between 1/30/2011 and 12/4/2012 were ...
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Journal ArticleJ Magn Reson Imaging · May 2016
PURPOSE: To determine whether triple-arterial phase acquisition with fluoroscopic triggering can provide both well-timed early and late hepatic arterial phase (HAP) images more frequently than when using a fixed-time delay during gadoxetic acid-enhanced ma ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Surg Oncol · April 2016
BACKGROUND: Despite advances in cross-sectional imaging, chemotherapeutic dosing for isolated limb infusion (ILI) in melanoma is currently calculated through cumbersome and potentially imprecise manual measurements. The primary objective of this study was ...
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Journal ArticleAbdom Radiol (NY) · April 2016
Percutaneous abscess drainage (PAD) has been proven to be a safe, effective, and widely used technique for treatment of patients with intra-abdominal fluid collections. Indications for PAD are ever expanding, and most abscesses are amenable to PAD. PAD is ...
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Journal ArticleAbdom Radiol (NY) · March 2016
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence, specific imaging features, and outcome of gastrointestinal vaso-occlusive ischemia (GVOI) in sickle cell patients undergoing CT for acute abdominal pain. METHODS: This HIPAA-compliant, IRB- ...
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Journal ArticleAbdom Radiol (NY) · February 2016
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to describe typical CT findings and distinct imaging patterns of ipilimumab-associated colitis in immunotherapeutic treatment of melanoma. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This HIPAA-compliant retrospective study included 86 pat ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Obstet Gynecol · November 2015
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine the diagnostic performance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis during pregnancy in a multiinstitutional study. STUDY DESIGN: In this multicenter retrospective stud ...
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Journal ArticleAbdom Imaging · October 2015
PURPOSE: The purpose of the study was to document the clinical impact of CT in elderly patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with abdominal pain. METHODS: This retrospective IRB-approved study from 2006 to 2013 evaluated 464 patients ≥80 yea ...
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Journal ArticleAbdom Imaging · October 2015
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to describe our experience with the role of CT-guided percutaneous drainage of loculated intra-abdominal collections consisting entirely of gas. MATERIALS AND METHODS: An IRB-approved retrospective study analyzing pa ...
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Journal ArticleJ Magn Reson Imaging · August 2015
PURPOSE: To determine the rate of agreement between the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN) and Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) classifications for hypervascular liver nodules at least 1 cm in diameter, and for patient eligibi ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · August 2015
OBJECTIVE: Many radiologists are unfamiliar with the new antithrombogenic medications and how to modify patient management before nonvascular percutaneous procedures performed in a radiology department. In this article, we review the indications for use, m ...
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Journal ArticleAbdom Imaging · June 2015
PURPOSE: To identify differences in hospital course and hospitalization cost when comparing image-guided percutaneous drainage with surgical repair for gastrointestinal anastomotic leaks. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A retrospective IRB-approved search using key ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · June 2015
Large-bowel obstruction is an abdominal emergency with high morbidity and mortality rates if left untreated. Although abdominal radiography is usually the initial imaging study performed in patients suspected of having large-bowel obstruction, it may not b ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · May 2015
OBJECTIVE: The purposes of this article are to illustrate the CT appearance of gastrointestinal vasoocclusive crisis in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), highlight potential complications, and review other conditions that may have similar findings. ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · January 2015
PURPOSE: To determine, in a dual-center setting, whether patients who experience transient severe motion ( TSM transient severe motion ) in the arterial phase during gadoxetate disodium-enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) imaging are at higher risk for a subs ...
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Journal ArticleJ Comput Assist Tomogr · 2015
Torsion of an allograft kidney is an extremely rare and potentially reversible complication. Imaging diagnosis plays a crucial role because of the absence of specific clinical features. We report 2 cases in which kidney torsion after simultaneous kidney-pa ...
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Journal ArticleJ Reprod Med · 2015
OBJECTIVE: To characterize the origin of nongynecologic pelvic masses. STUDY DESIGN: Using a radiology database, women who underwent transvaginal ultrasound, CT scan, or MRI for the indication of pelvic mass or pelvic fullness were identified. Demographic ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · December 2014
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article is to investigate the effect of body size on the selection of optimal monochromatic energy level for maximizing the conspicuity of hypervascular liver tumors during late hepatic arterial phase using dual-energy MDCT. ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · September 2014
PURPOSE: To investigate whether dual-energy multi-detector row computed tomography (CT) with virtual monochromatic imaging can overcome renal cyst pseudoenhancement in a phantom experiment and a clinical study. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This retrospective sin ...
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Journal ArticleJ Magn Reson Imaging · July 2014
PURPOSE: To compare abdominopelvic and lower extremity venous enhancement in contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance venography (ceMRV), using iron-based ferumoxytol and gadolinium-based gadofosveset. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a Health Insurance Portabi ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · June 2014
OBJECTIVE: The objective of our study was to test the hypothesis that an intercostal approach to imaging-guided percutaneous subdiaphragmatic abscess drainage is as safe as a subcostal approach. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cohort of 258 consecutive patients w ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Coll Radiol · May 2014
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to evaluate oncologists' opinions about the use of ionizing radiation in medical imaging of oncology patients. METHODS: An electronic survey was e-mailed to 2,725 oncologists at the top 50 National Cancer Institute-funded ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · May 2014
PURPOSE: To determine whether the use of a multiple arterial phase imaging technique provides adequate image quality in patients experiencing transient severe motion (TSM) in the arterial phase on abdominal magnetic resonance (MR) images obtained with gado ...
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Journal ArticleClin Genitourin Cancer · December 2013
BACKGROUND: Phosphatase and tensin homologue (PTEN) loss is common in advanced prostate cancer, leading to constitutive activation of the PI3 kinase pathway. Temsirolimus blocks mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR)/target of rapamycin complex 1 (TORC1), a ...
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Journal Article · November 1, 2013
Colorectal surgery is estimated to represent 28% of abdominal surgeries (Chu and Schoetz 2007). Indications for colorectal surgery include nonmalignant etiologies such as diverticular disease, volvulus, and inflammatory bowel disease as well as malignancie ...
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Journal ArticleColorectal Dis · November 2013
AIM: Patients with rectal cancer often undergo multiple CT scans prior to surgical resection. We propose that in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer without evidence of metastatic disease at presentation, CT imaging of the chest and abdomen after ...
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Journal ArticleTransplantation · July 15, 2013
BACKGROUND: In renal allograft recipients presenting with graft dysfunction, it is critical to determine the patency of the transplant vasculature to guide clinical management. Conventional modalities such as Doppler ultrasound, contrast-enhanced computed ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · July 2013
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this article is to review the MRI and ultrasound appearances of incarcerated uterus. CONCLUSION: Incarcerated uterus is a rare but serious complication of pregnancy in which the gravid uterus becomes trapped in the posterior pel ...
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Journal ArticleClin Genitourin Cancer · March 2013
PURPOSE: The activity of systemic agents after progression when using vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibition (TKI) and mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibition in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2013
105 Background: PTEN loss is common in advanced prostate cancer, leading to constitutive activation of the PI3 Kinase pathway. Temsirolimus blocks mTOR/TORC1, a key signaling node in this pathway; its activity in men with advance ...
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Journal ArticleJ Magn Reson Imaging · February 2013
PURPOSE: To evaluate the value of hepatobiliary phase imaging for detection and characterization of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in liver MRI with Gd-EOB-DTPA, in a North American population. MATERIALS AND METHODS: One hundred MRI examinations performed ...
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Journal ArticleJ Comput Assist Tomogr · 2013
OBJECTIVE: The objectives of this study were to explore utilization of multi-detector row computed tomography (MDCT) in screening for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and to modify a liver CT protocol with a goal of dose reduction. METHODS: An electronic mai ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Radiol · October 2012
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the ability of staging computed tomography (CT) without bowel preparation to accurately localize colonic tumors compared to optical colonoscopy. METHODS: The local institutional review board approved this retrospective and HIPAA- ...
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Journal ArticleInvest Radiol · August 2012
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to compare the image quality of abdominal computed tomography scans in an anthropomorphic phantom acquired at different radiation dose levels where each raw data set is reconstructed with both a standard convolution fil ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · March 2012
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine whether radiologist-performed electronic order entry affects use of oral contrast material for CT. Contrast media have been classified as medications by The Joint Commission, which necessitates a physic ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · February 10, 2012
435 Background: Given a lack of clinical information on therapeutic efficacy of agents following progression after vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) tyrosine kinase inhibition (TKI) and mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibition in metastatic ...
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Journal ArticleAm Surg · February 2012
The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that with improved technology, the presence of abscess in a postoperative fluid collection may be prospectively made. This is an Institutional Review Board-approved, Health Insurance Portability and Acco ...
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Journal ArticleClin Imaging · 2012
PURPOSE: To review utilization of imaging in pregnant patients with malignancies and define an imaging algorithm in this patient population. METHODS: Pregnant patients with concurrent diagnoses of malignancy from January 2002 to January 2011 were identifie ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · August 2010
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine, using an anthropomorphic phantom, whether patients are subject to variable radiation doses based on scanner assignment for routine CT of the brain. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Twenty metal oxide semiconduct ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · August 2010
PURPOSE: To intraindividually compare a low-tube-voltage (80 kVp), high-tube-current (675 mA) computed tomographic (CT) technique with a high-tube-voltage (140 kVp) CT protocol for the detection of pancreatic tumors, image quality, and radiation dose durin ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · July 2010
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article is to examine oncologists' opinions and expectations concerning imaging and tumor measurements in patients with cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS: An electronic mail survey was sent to 2,400 medical, gynecologic, and radi ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · July 2010
OBJECTIVE: The objective of our study was to examine radiologists' opinions and practice patterns concerning tumor measurements in cancer patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: An electronic mail survey was sent to 565 abdominal imaging radiologists at 55 U.S. N ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · July 2010
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to compare triplanar 2D T2-weighted turbo spin-echo MR images with reformatted images from a 3D T2-weighted turbo spin-echo sequence in analogous planes with respect to acquisition time, image quality, artifacts, an ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · October 2009
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OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to corroborate the relation between the estimated absorbed fetal dose derived from directly measured uterine doses early in the first trimester and the volume CT dose index (CTDI(vol)) for 16- and 64-MDCT of the mat ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · October 2009
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OBJECTIVE: The objective of our study was to determine, using an anthropomorphic phantom, whether patients are subject to variable radiation doses based on scanner assignment for common body CT studies. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Twenty metal oxide semiconduct ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · October 1, 2008
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PURPOSE: The primary aims of this phase I-II study were to determine the maximum tolerated dose, dose-limiting toxicity, pharmacokinetics, and preliminary efficacy of the combination of docetaxel and the endothelin A receptor antagonist atrasentan as first ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · April 2008
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OBJECTIVE: The objective of our study was to correlate the estimated fetal absorbed radiation dose derived by directly measured uterine doses in the early first trimester and the volume CT dose index (CTDI(vol)) for 16-MDCT of the maternal chest, abdomen, ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Radiol · March 2008
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BACKGROUND: The onset of Crohn disease (CD) can occur in childhood. Imaging, which often involves radiation, is frequent in CD both for disease diagnosis and follow-up. However, information regarding radiation dose for contemporary CT and fluoroscopy is no ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · January 2008
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PURPOSE: To prospectively evaluate, for the depiction of simulated hypervascular liver lesions in a phantom, the effect of a low tube voltage, high tube current computed tomographic (CT) technique on image noise, contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR), lesion consp ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · November 2007
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of our study was to evaluate current practice patterns in the imaging of pregnant women with abdominal complaints. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A survey was sent to the abdominal imaging division of 183 radiology residency programs in the ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · November 2007
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of our study was to compare organ and effective doses for small-bowel follow-through (SBFT) and abdominopelvic MDCT in adults with Crohn's disease, to retrospectively evaluate the number of radiographic examinations performed for Cro ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Obstet Gynecol · July 2007
OBJECTIVE: Assess postpartum changes in the levator ani muscle using magnetic resonance imaging and relate these changes to obstetric events and risk factors associated with pelvic floor dysfunction. STUDY DESIGN: A board-certified radiologist specializing ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · May 2007
PURPOSE: To prospectively determine quantitatively and qualitatively the timing of maximal enhancement of the normal small-bowel wall by using contrast material-enhanced multi-detector row computed tomography (CT). MATERIALS AND METHODS: This HIPAA-complia ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · March 2007
OBJECTIVE: The purposes of this study were to determine the accuracy of abdominal radiography in the detection of acute small-bowel obstruction (SBO), to assess the role of reviewer experience, and to evaluate individual radiographic signs of SBO. MATERIAL ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · January 2007
PURPOSE: To retrospectively assess if reader detection of intraabdominal pathologic findings on coronal reformations from isotropic voxels at 16-section computed tomography (CT) was similar to reader detection on transverse scans. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Th ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · February 2006
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of our study was to evaluate quantitative and qualitative image quality of MR cholangiography at a field strength of 3.0 T compared with the standard field strength of 1.5 T. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A standardized MR cholangiography s ...
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Journal ArticleDig Liver Dis · January 2006
BACKGROUND: Despite advances in imaging modalities, preoperative diagnosis of pancreatic cystic lesions remains difficult. AIM: To assess the accuracy of endoscopic ultrasound and computer tomography to preoperatively distinguish benign from potentially ma ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · January 2006
PURPOSE: To retrospectively assess the added value of coronal reformations of the abdomen and pelvis from isotropic voxels by using 16-section multi-detector row computed tomography (CT) for the diagnosis of small-bowel obstruction (SBO). MATERIALS AND MET ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · January 2006
Institutional review board approval and waiver of consent were obtained for the patient component of this retrospective HIPAA-compliant study. By using an anthropomorphic phantom and metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor detectors, radiation do ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · June 2005
PURPOSE: To assess retrospectively the added value of coronal reformations from isotropic voxels obtained with 16-section multi-detector row computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen and pelvis in patients with suspected acute appendicitis. MATERIALS AND MET ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · March 2005
OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to evaluate the role of Valsalva's maneuver during MDCT for the diagnosis and characterization of abdominal wall hernias. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: From September 2002 to May 2003, 100 consecutive patients (37 men and 63 women; mea ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · December 2004
PURPOSE: To evaluate current practice patterns of percutaneous image-guided abdominal and pelvic abscess drainage in academic and private practice centers. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The institutional review board did not require approval for this study. In a ...
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Journal ArticleAbdom Imaging · 2004
Pancreatic cancer may present on computed tomography (CT) as an isolated cuff of tumor surrounding the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) or celiac trunk, without an identifiable pancreatic mass. We reviewed our experience with imaging-guided biopsy of the s ...
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