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Spinal Cord Herniation • 10,146 views
This is a case for Prof. Dr. Dillon. It is in press by our neurosurgeons and us, for the use of Duragen. Idiopathic herniation of the thoracic spinal cord: a case report and technique note. U...
Neuro Protocols • 7,715 views
Alisa Gean is doing a great job getting a group together to share and collaborate neuro protocols. This would be a great place from members to share protocols, and open a discussion about the best ima...
Possible SIH with Spinal Subdural Hygroma, What Next? • 6,341 views
[caption id="attachment_602" align="aligncenter" width="407" caption="Sag T1. Tonsils are not particularly low and no sagging of the base of the brain."][/caption] [caption id="attachment_603" alig...
Cervical Spine Nomenclature • 5,060 views
The ASNR/ASSR nomenclature document was specific for the lumbar spine. I would be interested in your opinion on the correct terminology for cervical spondylosis: what terms and why. Specifically, t...
Brachial Plexus MRI Protocol • 4,646 views
BP MRI Protocol Fall is upon us and so is the lecturing season! Like years before, this Fall I will be giving my brachial plexus lecture several times and the most commonly asked question by the au...
Intracranial Hypotension: Advice on Best Treatment • 4,485 views
Middle age female patient diagnosed with Spontaneous intracranial hypotension. Has multiple (approx 23) perineural cysts. Has undergone several blood patches and artificial CSF infusions without rel...
Embolization of Brain Arteriovenous Malformations for Cure • 4,180 views
The editorial comment in the AJNR of Jan 09 by Jayaraman and Cloft is worthy of careful scrutiny, I believe. Although in my personal experience with Onyx and NBCA, final cure rates of brain AVMs from ...
Aunt Mickey (They Look the Same until You Undress Them). Internal Capsule Infarct or Something Else? • 3,892 views
This 30 year old hypertensive female smoker presented with acute onset of right hemiparesis. Her history also included OCP use and dyslipidemia. MRI demonstrated an acute infarct in the posterior limb...
Liver Hemangiomas and Vascular Lesions of the Brain • 3,871 views
[gallery] I have a patient with 15 large liver hemangiomas and two partly calcified lesions in brain. Does anyone know of associated liver hemangiomas and vascular lesions in the brain?
More on DWI of Head and Neck Lesions • 3,870 views
Yesterday I wrote a short comment in the utility of DWI in the evaluation of head and neck lesions. While reading cases in the afternoon I came across a new patient with a retinoblastoma. This pa...
Category Archives: Editorial Issues
Scientific Journals and Impact Factors
Editorial by W. Hendee, M.A. Bernstein, D. Levine
A research-focused scientific journal serves two main purposes. The first is to provide a forum for investigators to publish their own research findings. The second is to disseminate these findings to enhance further research investigations, and to aid others who wish to apply the findings for the benefit of society. These purposes motivate scientific journals in general and Medical Physics in particular, where the audience for the latter is principally medical physicists worldwide who are engaged in research or in the application of research results to improve patient care.
Every journal is … Continue reading >>
AJNR Publications Honored at ESNR Meeting
Dr. Josep Puig Alcantara received the 2011 Founders Award for Diagnostic Neuroradiology at this year’s meeting of the European Society of Neuroradiology for two publications that appeared in AJNR:
J. Puig, S. Pedraza, G. Blasco, J. Daunis-i-Estadella, F. Prados, S. Remollo, A.
Prats-Galino, G. Soria, I. Boada, M. Castellanos, and J. Serena.
Acute Damage to the Posterior Limb of the Internal Capsule on Diffusion Tensor Tractography as an Early Imaging Predictor of Motor Outcome after
Stroke. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol, May 2011; 32: 857 – 86
J. Puig, S. Pedraza, G. Blasco, J. Daunis-i-Estadella, A. Prats, F. … Continue reading >>
What Do You Think About Our Podcasts?
Now well into the second year of the podcast from the AJNR, I think it’s an interesting time, and perhaps an important time, to survey listeners. What I would like within the next few weeks is for podcast listeners to post comments to this thread.
What do you like about the podcast? What don’t you like? How can we improve or add new and interesting content that would make these podcasts more useful to you?
Thanks to all of our listeners for their support, as well as their feedback.… Continue reading >>
AJNR’s New Impact Factor: 3.46
We are proud to announce that our IF continues to grow. Other journals such as Radiology and Stroke had a lower IF this time compared to last year. In order to increase AJNR’s IF even more we need to eliminate Case Reports. Looking at ones that we published last year it is important for our contributors to realize that they basically received no citations in the literature. As of Friday, July 1st, 2011, we will no longer accept this type of articles for review. All Case Reports will be automatically returned to their corresponding authors. We encourage all such … Continue reading >>
Classic Image of the Week: A New Self-Assessment Activity Coming to AJNR.ORG
Have you ever tired to make a difficult imaging diagnosis based on clues from just a single image out of hundreds, if not thousands? When was your last time telling yourself “yes, that’s got to be the case”. I talked about the idea of formulating those fascinating images into a self-assessment activity on the AJNR website to the Editor-in -Chief when he visited Taiwan this March. After weeks of intense discussion and emails, we refined the idea of “Classic Image of the Week” which is going live on www.ajnr.org today and will appear every Monday.
This new AJNR activity offers 5 distinct elements: 1) a classic image (or images) along … Continue reading >>
Interventional Neuroradiology
This year, Interventional Neuroradiology will be published in the traditional printed hard copy format and also in a digital edition available on the Internet. This move will allow our readers to exploit the myriad opportunities digital medium has to offer, especially for a journal with an international readership. The subscription price will be lower in view of cost savings resulting from the digital format. The digital subscription will offer readers the leaf through format on-line, the PDF to download and print, and bibliography search with access to a dynamic articles archive. We are convinced that the digital format will further … Continue reading >>
Come Snack with AJNR
Did you know that AJNR offers you now even more “brain food”? Twice per week- Tuesdays and Fridays- we give you a new Brain Snack. These are bite-size pieces of information (“pearls”) on clinically pertinent topics chosen from articles appearing in the corresponding month. All snacks come with their reference and a link to the article they came from. All you have to do to consume them is click on the Brain Snacks link on AJNRs homepage.… Continue reading >>
AJNR Blog for iPhone
This blogsite is now available on a special platform (WPtouch) for iPhone. Once you access AJNRBLOG.ORG, your iPhone should default into the mobile mode automatically (if not, you can manually change it at the bottom of the screen). For those using other devices, such as a Blackberry, our standard platform should continue to be satisfactory. The new platform should also work well with devices that are android-based. Please note that our iPhone application does not support “pinching and stretching” but despite this the text is clearly readable and the illustrations are of high quality.
Renting AJNR Articles
I know that many of you have faced the following annoying situation: you find an article that you must read but to do so you have to pay $20.00-$30.00! If you, or the institution you work for, subscribe to AJNR all of its contents should be available for perusing. If you do not subscribe we now offer an alternative to buying the article you need: DeepDyve. DeepDyve is the largest online rental service for scientific articles. Its database houses some 30 million articles and you may preview any of them free and rent the entire article for 24 hours for … Continue reading >>
Bias and Language in Scientific Articles
In the last issue of JACR (J Am Coll Radiol 2010; 7: 490-494) Dr. James Brenner addresses some of the more subtle manifestations of bias in the scientific literature. These biases arise because they are generally not identified during the peer review process and because literature is often (mis)quoted by not going back and reading the original articles. Misleading data self perpetuates when this happens. I urge all of our authors to go back to original articles and read them and judge their quality and significance that way. He also writes: “The use of adverbs should have a restricted … Continue reading >>