Countries, collaborations, subspecialties, modalities and study design were ranked by publication percentage.
PET scanner performance, data acquisition, attenuation correction method and tracer kinetics may vary among studies and may all contribute to divergent SUVs among modalities and study protocols.
Single- 2 10 and multicentre 8 11 cohort studies have evaluated the diagnostic yield of screening (detection of asymptomatic precursor lesions and PCs at baseline and follow-up) using different imaging modalities and study populations (table 1).
Do we really need to compare both modalities and study long-term survival in this particular patient group, or should we reserve RFA for patients unable to tolerate surgery?
Intuitively, one may think that the resistance to fatigue in difficult to wean patients may be more important than increasing the force generation itself (consider the concept of a sprinter versus a marathon runner), but this needs to be addressed in the future, in both clinical studies comparing the two training modalities and physiological studies.
Publication percentages and mean impact factors were calculated for institutional collaboration type, radiology subspecialty, modality and study design.
We aimed to assess the influence of the authors' nationality and collaborations, as well as radiological subspecialty, modality and study design, on subsequent publication rates and impact factors.
Guidelines have been issued by the ACR and other medical associations that best define incidental findings across various modalities and imaging studies.
Open image in new window Fig. 2 Student knowledge regarding modalities and imaging studies that involve exposure to ionising radiation (a) and the level of radiation used in these (b).
Despite the variety of scales, modalities, formats and study goals, a typical biomedical image analysis protocol consists of three parts – image preprocessing, analysis and interpretation.
