June 2004

Features

Cover Story

	William Beaumont Hospitals: Paving Nuclear's Future
	In leveraging its resources across the system, the nuclear medicine service at William Beaumont Hospitals is well positioned to support the specialty's new and emerging technologies and therapies.

	Nuclear PACS: Problems, Solutions
	by Jerold Wallis MD
	Facilities struggling with incorporating nuclear images into their PACS can find a blueprint in the new IHE nuclear medicine profile.


	Staffing Up
	by Chris Wolski
	Part 1. While there are indications that the radiologist shortage may be easing, most groups continue to feel the pressure: find here some recruitment and retention strategies.


	Mobile Imaging: The Right Move?
	by George Wiley
	Mobile imaging trucks that move from site to site offer expanded patient care without big outlays of capital. But that is only one reason hospitals small and not so small are continuing to use them.

Departments

	Lateral View
	Nuclear Possibilities
	by Cheryl Proval
	Now is a good time for radiology to cement its long-term relationship with nuclear medicine in a more formal way.


	Guest Editorial
	Does Quality Drive Breast Biopsy?
	by Judy Wagner RN
	A breast cancer survivor calls for mandatory accreditation for stereotactic breast biopsy.


	STAT Read
	by Arati Murti


	Imaging Informatics
	The Ubiquitous Digitizer
	by George Wiley
	As a piece of equipment, a film digitizer get little respect; but everybody seems to have one, and it does require proper care and feeding.


	Imaging Business
	Gaining Access to the Reimbursement
	by Seleen Street Collins
	Coordinated participation is the key to radiologists' influence on reimbursement policy.


	Technology Review