June 2002


Features

Cover Story
PET Proponent
  by Rich Smith
  In establishing a network of partnerships to provide positron emission tomography, Ronald Lissak has become a leading proselytizer for PET.

A Marriage of Inconvenience
  by George Wiley
CT of Acute Stroke
  by Lawrence N. Tanenbaum MD
  Perfusion CT is enabling clinicians to quickly access information critical to therapeutic decision-making for acute stroke patients.
ACR MRI Accrediation: Myth and Reality
  by Robert A. Bell PHD
  The benefits associated with the weekly and annual QC requirements of the ACR's revised MRI accreditation program, due to go into effect in August, far outweigh their associated time and cost.


Departments

  Viewpoint
Who's Minding the Store?
  by Cheryl Proval
  As radiology increases its ability to detect disease at an earlier, more treatable stage, so grows the opportunity to partner in the outcomes analyses that have so far eluded the specialty.
  Guest Editorial
Embracing the Opposition
  by Don Cubberley MD
  Preserving the intellectual capital of interventional radiology will require solutions both bold and creative.
Letters to the Editor
STAT Read
  by Ben Van Houten
  Imaging Business
Malpractice and Mammography
  by Chris Wolski
  As malpractice insurance costs escalate dramatically for radiologists, the best defense may be to maintain good communications protocols, good reading skills, and a good lawyer.
  Technology Economics Review
The PET Reimbursement Puzzle
  by Frank J. Papatheofanis MD, MPH, PhD
  The future of molecular imaging depends on the ability of practitioners and payors to solve the puzzle of PET reimbursement and referrer education.
Technology Review: Product Review

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