Sergio Lopes Viana Maria Custódia Machado Ribeiro Bruno Beber Machado 2019 Second Edition 2019 Pediatric radiology is considered the oldest subspecialty of diagnostic imaging. Nevertheless, there has been a steady and progressive decline in the number of pediatric radiologists in the last decades, along with a decreased emphasis on pediatric imaging during the training of […]
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Rosemarie Forstner Teresa Margarida Cunha • Bernd Hamm Editors 2019
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Yasuo Yoshioka • Jun Itami Masahiko Oguchi • Takashi Nakano Editors 2019 Brachytherapy has a long history since the discovery of radium-226 by Marie Curie in 1898 and its introduction to the cancer treatment in France in 1901. Already in 1913, the clinical results of brachytherapy in cervical cancer surpassed the results obtained through Wertheim’s […]
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Editors: Maria Assunta Cova, Fulvio Stacul 2019 A Clinical-Radiological Approach to Pain Diagnosis Pain can be a major clinical challenge. Its correct assessment is often related to a careful analysis of the patient history, to an accurate physical examination, to the evaluation of laboratory data, and to an appropriate referral to diagnostic imaging. This book […]
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Editors: Luis Martí-Bonmatí, Angel Alberich-Bayarri 2017 Development and Clinical Integration This book started so many years ago. On those times, most researchers on medical imaging were involved in how to obtain the best images to achieve accurate diagnosis in clinical medicine. Detecting lesions and knowing the nature of what was found and how these findings […]
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Editor U. Joseph Schoepf 2019 More than a decade has passed since the publication of the first edition of CT of the Heart. And what a ride it’s been since then! From the perch of today’s technology, with lightning-fast acquisition speeds and temporal resolution, massive tube power, yet gentle techniques, the evolution could not have […]
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Editors: Raymond Y. Kwong, Michael Jerosch-Herold, Bobak Heydari 2019 Since the successful invention three decades ago of the first magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system by Damadian et al. for cancer diagnosis, the medical use of MRI has become an essential component in the diagnosis and management of patients with a wide range of diseases. Extensive hardware […]
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Editors: Erik R. Ranschaert, Sergey Morozov, Paul R. Algra 2019 Opportunities, Applications and Risks An increasing number of unanswered questions made us unsettled about the evolution of radiology and its current ability to keep up with the pace of healthcare transformation. The answers to these questions hopefully can be found in this book, which we […]
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Editor Jean L. Wright 2019 As a physician, I have always been interested in how to balance the risk of toxicity related to our treatment recommendations versus the potential benefits. In breast cancer, in particular, I found that this risk-benefit assessment plays into almost every treatment decision and that “gray zone” cases, where there is […]
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Editors: Michael N. Patlas, Douglas S. Katz, Mariano Scaglione 2019 Over the past half century, emergency radiology has come into being as a subspecialty on its own. Corresponding to a dynamic period in CT technology, the evolution of the specialty has been profound. What originally began as an area of interest for some has morphed […]
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