Annals ofImage & Radiology

Volume: 7 - Number: 59 - March 15, 2007

Outstanding

Quality Assurance: The Missing Link

Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery for Morbid Obesity: Evaluation of Postoperative Extraluminal Leaks with Upper Gastrointestinal Series

Multi–Detector Row CT Coronary Angiography: Influence of Reconstruction Technique and Heart Rate on Image Quality

Osteoporotic Compression Fractures: Outcomes after Single- versus Multiple-Level Percutaneous Vertebroplasty

Breast Images

MR Imaging–guided 9-gauge Vacuum-assisted Core-Needle Breast Biopsy: Initial Experience

Cardiac Image

Multi–Detector Row CT Coronary Angiography: Influence of Reconstruction Technique and Heart Rate on Image Quality

Editorial

Quality Assurance: The Missing Link

Experimental Study

Osteoid Osteoma in an ex Vivo Animal Model: Temperature Changes in Surrounding Soft Tissue during CT-guided Radiofrequency Ablation

Percutaneous MR Imaging–guided Transvascular Access of Mesenteric Venous System: Study in Swine Model

Radiation Exposure Reduction during Voiding Cystourethrography in a Pediatric Porcine Model of Vesicoureteral Reflux

Gastrointestinal Image

Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery for Morbid Obesity: Evaluation of Postoperative Extraluminal Leaks with Upper Gastrointestinal Series

Small-Bowel Obstruction: Coronal Reformations from Isotropic Voxels at 16-Section Multi–Detector Row CT

Types and Frequencies of Biliary Tract Variations Associated with a Major Portal Venous Anomaly: Analysis with Multi–Detector Row CT Cholangiography

Genitourinary imaging

Prostate Cancer: Endorectal MR Imaging and MR Spectroscopic Imaging—Distinction of True-Positive Results from Chance-detected Lesions

Prostate Cancer: Local Staging at 3-T Endorectal MR Imaging—Early Experience

Interventional Radiology and Image

Percutaneous Vertebroplasty for Spinal Metastases: Complications

Radiofrequency Ablation for Small Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Prospective Comparison of Internally Cooled Electrode and Expandable Electrode

Molecular imaging

MR Evaluation of the Glomerular Homing of Magnetically Labeled Mesenchymal Stem Cells in a Rat Model of Nephropathy

Musculoskeletal imaging

Osteoporotic Compression Fractures: Outcomes after Single- versus Multiple-Level Percutaneous Vertebroplasty

Neuroradiology

Material-dependent Activation in Prefrontal Cortex: Working Memory for Letters and Texture Patterns—Initial Observations

Nuclear Medicine

Lymph Node Metastasis in Patients with Clinical Early-Stage Cervical Cancer: Detection with Integrated FDG PET/CT

Science to Practice

Science to Practice: Can Fluoroscopic Radiation Dose Be Substantially Reduced?

Sings

The Bridging Vascular Sign

Technical Development

Optimization of Multiplanar Reformations from Isotropic Data Sets Acquired with 16–Detector Row Helical CT Scanner

Thoracic Images

Prediction of Prognosis for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome with Thin-Section CT: Validation in 44 Cases

Type B Niemann-Pick Disease: Findings at Chest Radiography, Thin-Section CT, and Pulmonary Function Testing