background: the present study aimed to evaluate the balance between training and demand for radiologists in the iranian health care system between 2008 and 2027. materials and methods: a total number of 250 clusters were randomly selected from urban and rural areas of iran, of which 168 were selected from urban areas and 82 were selected from rural areas. in order to collect basic medical data ...

The American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) is the largest national, voluntary certification organization for radiologic technologists, with 235,000 registered technologists and an annual examination volume of 20,000 to 25,000. The ARRT's board is appointed by the ACR (four members) and the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (five members). The ARRT is in the process of d...

introduction: misdiagnosis and the resulting mismanagement are challenging issues in complicated cases which present with obscure complaints. interpreting radiologic studies, especially conventional plain radiologic images, remains the most frequently prescribed and useful modality for the first step of assessment. case presentation: in this report, we present a case of mismanagement of a stran...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Vertebral stenosis is associated with a high risk of recurrent stroke, but noninvasive imaging techniques to identify it have lacked sensitivity. Contrast-enhanced MR angiography and CT angiography have been recently developed and appear to have better sensitivity. However, no prospective studies have compared both of these techniques with ultrasound against the gold stan...

BACKGROUND Chronic cough in children is a common problem, and sinusitis is a common etiology. The diagnosis of sinusitis is often clinical, but confirmation is thought to require a CT scan due to the difficulty of interpreting a Water's view sinus X-ray. OBJECTIVES The purposes of the study were (1) to examine the frequency of an abnormal sinus X-ray in children with a chronic cough of more t...

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system for breast ultrasound to improve the characterization of breast lesions detected on ultrasound by junior and senior radiologists. MATERIALS AND METHODS One hundred sixty ultrasound breast lesions were randomly reviewed blindly by four radiologists with different levels of ...