Radiology

Tacher, Vania; Lin, MingDe; Duran, Rafael; Yarmohammadi, Hooman; Lee, Howard; Chapiro, Julius; Chao, Michael; Wang, Zhijun; Frangakis, Constantine; Sohn, Jae Ho; Maltenfort, Mitchell Gil; Pawlik, Timothy; Geschwind, Jean-François

doi: 10.1148/radiol.2015142951pmid: 26131913

Volumetric Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors and quantitative European Association for Study of the Liver criteria are early response markers that can be used to predict survival after initial transarterial chemoembolization; thus, these criteria can be used as a guide for potential therapeutic changes early in the course of treatment.

Yin, Meng; Glaser, Kevin J.; Talwalkar, Jayant A.; Chen, Jun; Manduca, Armando; Ehman, Richard L.

doi: 10.1148/radiol.2015142141pmid: 26162026

With a technical failure rate of less than 5.6%, the use of hepatic MR elastography to assess changes in liver tissue mechanics, which are associated with many pathophysiologic factors, may yield important information regarding staging of liver disease without invasive biopsy.

Satani, Nozomi; Ota, Hideki; Seiji, Kazumasa; Morimoto, Ryo; Kudo, Masataka; Iwakura, Yoshitsugu; Ono, Yoshikiyo; Nezu, Masahiro; Omata, Kei; Ito, Sadayoshi; Satoh, Fumitoshi; Takase, Kei

doi: 10.1148/radiol.2015142159

Woo, Hyunsik; Lee, Jae Young; Yoon, Jeong Hee; Kim, Won; Cho, Belong; Choi, Byung Ihn

doi: 10.1148/radiol.2015141975pmid: 26147680

The reliability of acoustic radiation force impulse imaging was significantlybetter than the reliability of supersonic shear imaging in measurement of liverstiffness.

Regner, Michael F.; Dalwani, Manish; Yamamoto, Dorothy; Perry, Robert I.; Sakai, Joseph T.; Honce, Justin M.; Tanabe, Jody

doi: 10.1148/radiol.2015142541pmid: 26133201

Kim, Sang Yoon; Chung, Hye Won

doi: 10.1148/radiol.2015142516pmid: 26162027

US-guided core needle biopsy of musculoskeletal soft-tissue lesions is an effective initial procedure for diagnosis and clinical decision making, even for lesions measuring 2 cm or smaller but larger than 1 cm.

Zhang, Long Jiang; Wen, Jiqiu; Liang, Xue; Qi, Rongfeng; Schoepf, U. Joseph; Wichmann, Julian L.; Milliken, Cole M.; Chen, Hui Juan; Kong, Xiang; Lu, Guang Ming

doi: 10.1148/radiol.2015150004pmid: 26200603

Bai, Yan; Lin, Yusong; Tian, Jie; Shi, Dapeng; Cheng, Jingliang; Haacke, E. Mark; Hong, Xiaohua; Ma, Bo; Zhou, Jinyuan; Wang, Meiyun

doi: 10.1148/radiol.2015142173pmid: 26230975

Our results suggest that advanced diffusion-weighted imaging techniques by using biexponential and stretched exponential models and diffusion kurtosis imaging can provide more valuable information for the grading of gliomas; water molecular diffusion heterogeneity index and mean kurtosis may be more accurate in the grading of gliomas compared with the other diffusion parameters, which would be helpful in improving therapy strategies and prognosis.

Burns, Joseph E.; Yao, Jianhua; Muñoz, Hector; Summers, Ronald M.

doi: 10.1148/radiol.2015142346pmid: 26172532

We designed and validated a fully automated quantitative image analysis system that can directly detect fractures of the anterior, posterior, and lateral cortex of thoracic and lumbar vertebral bodies on CT images, discern the level of the fractured vertebrae, and localize fractures within the vertebral body.

Kirby, Miranda; Pike, Damien; Sin, Don D.; Coxson, Harvey O.; McCormack, David G.; Parraga, Grace

doi: 10.1148/radiol.2015150037pmid: 26151081

In patients with mild-to-moderate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) inwhom forced expiratory volume in 1 second was modestly abnormal, MR imagingmeasurements of emphysema played a dominant role in the expression of exerciselimitation, while both CT and MR imaging measurements of emphysema explainedCOPD symptoms.