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This issue of the AJR contains several features and particularly note-worthy articles. Marcia Javitt, associate editor of the AJR, has helped to bring together a valuable collection of papers on women's imaging, including five original research papers on the timely topic of breast MRI [1-5]. Contributing to the discussion and debate revolving around breast MRI is an interesting commentary by Paul Friedman and colleagues [6] on the importance of bilateral imaging when performing breast MRI.
Leonard Berlin [7] contributes another fine addition to his Malpractice Issues in Radiology series, this month discussing, in his usual compelling fashion, sexual harassment, a topic that has received increasing public awareness in recent years. Radiologists and radiologic facilities are certainly not immune to such activities.
In view of the ongoing discussions of the pros and cons of CT for lung cancer screening, we present, from Mario Mascalchi and colleagues [8], a risk-benefit analysis of radiation exposure in lung cancer screening trial patients. This thought-provoking article concludes that the risk of the radiation dose to patients in a screening trial is compensated for by the expected benefit.
The AJR editorial team hope that these types of articles and commentaries will stimulate further discussion, and we encourage our readers to send us their views.
The Internet is truly beginning to blossom in terms of online educational resources available to the busy radiologist, radiology trainees, medical students, other health professionals, patients, and the general public. A quick search in your favorite search engine will allow you to find almost anything that could be of radiologic interest.
In addition to journal Web sites such as www.ajronline.org, now serving as digital archives for published content going back decades, you can find Web sites devoted to teaching files, tutorials, comprehensive reviews and textbooks, atlases, and discussion groups, from academic radiology departments, personal and corporate Web sites, and esteemed radiology societies.
These resources include many types of study aides, continuing medical education, and self-assessment programs related to maintenance of certification. An increasing number of Web resources now feature well-produced digitally captured lectures from actual workshops and symposia that have been converted to an online format, such as online videos or PowerPoint shows. These can be found in multiple radiology subspecialty areas, some with open access and others requiring membership or subscription. Many of these valuable resources can be found at the home page of the American Roentgen Ray Society (www.arrs.org).
At the AJR, we will be bringing back a former feature, Review of Current Literature, as a new online service. In the coming months this section will service carefully selected content from nonradiology journals that our editorial team thinks is important to highlight for our radiology readers, complete with hyperlinks for our online readers.
As the Internet becomes more and more a part of our everyday life, clearly these types of resources will be more and more available. Features such as this help to define us as a radiology community. Happy searching.
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