Eric Barnes[email protected]CTAuntMinnie.com CT InsiderMarch 28, 2013Residents/FellowsNY hospital relents, promising another year of residencyRethinking a decision that had sparked fear and anger among its radiology residents when it was announced last month, St. Barnabas Hospital in New York City has reversed course on a planned closure of its radiology residency program, vowing to keep it going for at least another year.March 27, 2013CTNew Texas radiation rule takes effect May 1Hoping to avoid the rash of radiation overexposures that shook California radiology like an earthquake a few years back, the state of Texas has decided to implement its own radiation exposure rule beginning May 1.March 27, 2013Residents/FellowsResidents can benefit from quality improvement projectsQuality improvement projects aren't simply an onerous requirement imposed on residents; they're a great way to improve patient care and clinical workflow while giving residents confidence in their problem-solving abilities, according to an article in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.March 18, 2013CTProne-supine matching algorithm shows high accuracy in CTCVIENNA - U.K. researchers have developed an accurate matching algorithm to deal with the gnarly problem of integrating prone and supine CT colonography (CTC) datasets, according to a presentation at ECR 2013.March 10, 2013CTIntegrated CT detector improves coronary stenosis assessmentVIENNA - A new integrated circuit CT detector may improve the ability of clinicians to accurately grade coronary artery stenoses visualized during coronary CT angiography, especially when combined with thin-slice imaging and iterative reconstruction, researchers reported on Sunday at ECR 2013.March 9, 2013CTCAD scheme automatically characterizes lung nodulesVIENNA - Taking a step beyond lung nodule detection schemes evaluated in previous studies, researchers from the Netherlands have developed an automated method of characterizing nodules as solid, part-solid, or nonsolid, pointing the way to different patient management paths, according to a presentation at ECR 2013.March 8, 20132013Is visibility the only way to save radiology?VIENNA - Visibility is the shield that can protect radiology against the slings and arrows steadily lining up against it, according to experts who spoke at a professional challenges session on Friday at ECR 2013.March 7, 2013PACS/VNAOutsourced CT reads reliable even for emergency departmentVIENNA - Can a hospital turn its critical after-hours emergency reads over to a teleradiology provider without putting patients at risk? It most likely can, according to a U.K. study of more than 1,000 patients, in results presented on Thursday at ECR 2013.March 6, 2013CTJAMA: Physicians do not discuss CT risks with most patientsPhysicians rarely communicated the risks of CT scans to patients before ordering the exams in a population of older male patients at a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospital, according to survey results published on March 4 in a research letter in JAMA Internal Medicine.March 3, 2013Previous PagePage 69 of 258Next PageTop StoriesCT5-year CTC screening interval is appropriate for colorectal cancerThe study's findings add to an ongoing conversation about the use of CTC for colorectal cancer screening.MRIASTRO: Daily MRgRT recontouring improves prostate treatment outcomesRadiation Oncology/TherapyASTRO: Radiation therapy comparable to surgery for early-stage lung cancerCTCT use in the ED has more than doubled over a decadeSponsor ContentDigital Innovations Shaping the Future of Radiology