I'll buy with you in the future! Five Stars By S. Bakshi Eagerly awaited book by an iconic author. Meets all expectations and more. Buyer beware, as it is said By amazon prime member In , I was a second year radiology resident; as part of my 3 month neuroradiology rotation, I purchased and read the then brand new 2nd edition of Latchaw's MR and CT Imaging of the Head, Neck and Spine from cover to cover.
I thought it was superb, and needless to say it taught me much. Twenty-five years later, I remain a working radiologist, and an MR specialist at that. Whereas fellowships today are by and large specialty based, I actually did a one year modality-based clinical MR fellowship.
I rarely buy textbooks nowadays; when I do, they typically are monographs dedicated to a certain subspecialty, which can be more detailed, precise and yes useful.
However, one of my former partner's retired and left his copy of the 3rd edition of Atlas's book, a two-volume edition, for my use. I do like textbooks with prose, rather than those with one or two images per condition and attached page of bulleted tidbits e. Amerisys' Diagnostic Imaging series , since the author can actually put forth a perspective and approach to understanding the topic at hand. And when I had read sections of the 3rd edition, I liked what I read.
All to say, I decided to buy the 5th edition, since I assumed it would have vastly improved modern images in addition to updated science related to both major and minor topics in neuroimaging. And there's the rub. I do not claim to have read this new edition from cover to cover, and doubt any will as I did with Latchaw.
But when I compared several chapters between the 3rd and new 5th editions, here is what I have found: The text has reverted from two to one volume form. Sadly the image reproduction is inconsistent and often poor, with images showing poor to terrible grey scale i. T2 images are often black and white.
Many text sections are reproduced verbatim, as are images, but with the reduced image size and poor reproduction, readability and image quality are noticeably worse in this 5th edition.
And most disappointingly, old images have not been replaced by newer, better ones of the same pathology. Now I know that great authors select certain images not just for a pretty picture, but to illustrate a certain point or concept integral to a discussion at hand.
But not updating significant images for a publication date is really indefensible. Roughly 6 months ago, I happened to send an email to Atlas asking him if a new edition of his text would be forthcoming, and he wrote back saying yes, he actually was working on it at the time.
I do not know him personally, and he does not know me. I wrote back offering to send him new [MR] images of several important conditions featured in his text, stating that my images were much better than those in his 3rd edition from Images of people commonly portrayed European Americans. We found statistical differences between newspaper advertisements and mailed brochures for references to "prevalence of disease" P View details for Web of Science ID Financial incentives associated with managed care may shift incentives associated with the adoption of new medical technologies.
This study examined whether managed-care activity was associated with the adoption rate of magnetic resonance imaging MRI equipment during the s. Data from three nationwide "censuses" of MRI sites conducted in , , and were used. The number of MRI sites and magnets; magnet field strength; MRI procedures; the use of contrast media; and the presence of power injectors, echoplanar imaging, cardiac MRI, and interventional MRI were measured in each of metropolitan statistical areas each year.
Regression analysis was used to assess the relationship between area MRI availability and overall area health maintenance organization HMO market share, controlling for potential confounders. To characterize the frequency and severity of incidental findings in brain MRIs of young and older adult research volunteers, and to provide an evaluation of the ethical challenges posed by the detection of such findings.
The authors reviewed research MRI scans obtained retrospectively from subjects recruited to studies as healthy volunteers. Incidental findings were classified into four categories: no referral, routine, urgent, or immediate referral. Of studies, the authors found an overall occurrence of incidental findings having required referral of 6.
To investigate the correlation between gadolinium contrast-enhancement patterns on T1-weighted magnetic resonance MR images and spatial changes in protein expression profiles in human glioblastoma multiforme GBM and the use of imaging as a noninvasive technique to evaluate the heterogeneity of solid tumors prior to microarray analysis. Intraoperative stereotaxy was used in conjunction with MR images to identify contrast-enhanced CE and nonenhanced NE regions of the tumor during surgical resection.
We found that protein profiles from CE and NE regions within a given tumor have qualitative and semiquantitative proteomic pattern differences, suggesting an altered gene expression profile that correlates with detectable tissue imaging parameters. We also found that CE regions within the same tumor exhibited distinct differences in protein expression profiles, despite similar histological features.
In addition, there were marked similarities in the proteomic patterns among the NE regions across all patients, while the CE regions were distinct, suggesting that the CE regions have complex protein profiles unique to individuals.
The results demonstrate that major differences in protein expression patterns within a tumor can be correlated to radiographic findings. Image-guided proteomics holds promise for characterizing tissue prior to microarray analysis designed to identify specific diagnostic markers and therapeutic targets within solid tumors.
To conduct an empirical analysis of self-referred whole-body computed tomography CT and develop a profile of the geographic and demographic distribution of centers, types of services and modalities, costs, and procedures for reporting results.
An analysis was conducted of Web sites for imaging centers accepting self-referred patients identified by two widely used Internet search engines with large indexes. These Web sites were analyzed for geographic location, type of screening center, services, costs, and procedures for managing imaging results. Demographic data were extrapolated for analysis on the basis of center location. Descriptive statistics, such as frequencies, means, SDs, ranges, and CIs, were generated to describe the characteristics of the samples.
Atlas Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Tab Menu. Bio Scott W. Contact Hoover Institution office. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx competent medical experts or timeserving bureaucrats? So far no trusted figure has emerged who can tell the story straight—until now.
In this unfiltered insider account, Dr. Scott Atlas brings us directly into the White House, describes the key players in the crisis, and assigns credit and blame where it is deserved.
He also provides an inside account of the delays and timelines involving vaccines and other treatments, evaluates the impact of the lockdowns on American public health, and indicts the relentless war on truth waged by Big Business and Big Tech. No other book contains these revelations.
Millions of people who trust Dr. Atlas will want to read this dramatic account of what really went on behind the scenes in the White House during the greatest public health crisis of the 21st century. Atlas, M. Atlas investigates the impact of the government and the private sector on access, quality, and pricing in health care, global trends in health care innovation, and key economic issues related to the future of technology-based medical advances.
He is a frequent policy advisor to policymakers and government officials in the United States and other countries. He has served as Senior Advisor for Health Care to several numerous candidates for president, as well as counseled members of the US Congress on health care, testified before Congress, and briefed directors of key federal agencies. He is also the editor of Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spine —the leading textbook in the field that has been translated into several languages, now in its 5th edition.
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