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Spinal Cord Herniation • 10,723 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 • 8,067 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? • 6,657 views
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Brachial Plexus MRI Protocol • 5,347 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...
Cervical Spine Nomenclature • 5,217 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...
Intracranial Hypotension: Advice on Best Treatment • 5,039 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 • 4,239 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 ...
Liver Hemangiomas and Vascular Lesions of the Brain • 4,212 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?
Aunt Mickey (They Look the Same until You Undress Them). Internal Capsule Infarct or Something Else? • 4,144 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...
More on DWI of Head and Neck Lesions • 3,979 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
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 >>
AJNR’s New Impact Factor for 2010
I am very happy to announce that AJNR’s new Impact Factor is 3.296 up from 2.745 last year. AJNR will continue to offer the highest quality scientific articles and we will be fine tuning the contents of the Journal to assure that the Impact Factor and other metrics continue to improve.… Continue reading >>
AJNR’s New Special Collection and Podcast Survey Brain Tumor Imaging
“Brain Tumor Imaging, Volume 1: Pretherapy” is the latest Special Collection from the American Journal of Neuroradiology. Distilling the best of the many articles related to brain tumor imaging that appear in the pages of AJNR posed a daunting task, but Editor-in-Chief Mauricio Castillo knew that Collection Editor Soonmee Cha of the University of California, San Francisco would be successful. “Dr. Cha is a respected investigator, a contributor of high quality and clinically relevant articles to AJNR and other journals, and a member of our Editorial Board,” he explained. Dr. Cha chose to categorize and present this compilation of research … Continue reading >>
AJNR’s Case of the Week: Upcoming Improvements
The Case of the Week feature at AJNR.ORG is now established as an important educational activity with up the 10,000 views every month. Thus I have asked Dr. Girish Fatterpekar from Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC to serve as Editor for it and I am glad that he has accepted this challenge. Girish is already working on improving the format of the COWs with the purpose of packing in more information/education into them while retaining their simplicity and ease of navigation. Additionally, he will be in charge of putting all of the cases posted every year into the form of … Continue reading >>
Interventional Neuroradiology: Now in MEDLINE
Most of you know that last year AJNR entered a cooperative agreement with Interventional Neuroradiology (IN). Since AJNR accepts very few case reports and technical notes, we encourage the authors of these types of articles to send them to our “sister” journal, IN. Many prospective authors can rest assured that their articles will be thoroughly and fairly evaluated by Dr. Karel terBrugge and his editorial team. Through the efforts of Dr. Marco Leonardi who publishes IN the journal is now indexed in MEDLINE making it more important, relevant, and useful. IN is now in its 15th year of publication and … Continue reading >>
Hotlight: A Cool New Feature for AJNR
We are happy to announce that starting on March 19th, AJNR will be enhanced with the Hotlight feature. This nifty addition allows readers to instantly retrieve medical images (from the ARRS Goldminer program), journal articles (from PubMed), and view terms and their definitions (from MeSH and RadLex). How does it work? It is simple:
-When you are viewing an article on hypertext form (HTML) simply highlight the term you want to search (remember that Hotlight only works when viewing articles on the HTML format),
-if this highlighted term is in the database a “lightbulb” icon will show up beside it,… Continue reading >>
Announcing Changes in AJNR
As I hinted on my blog of Jan 10th some changes need to happen to AJNR to keep it current and make it more relevant than ever before. Thus, the following changes will take place immediately:
Review Articles: Currently we publish 3 x month, they have been cited very little and are working against the improvement of our Impact Factor. We will honor those accepted until today and as such the current publication scheme will continue until February 2011. After that date, only one Review Article per issue will be published. I expect the new reviews to be more cutting … Continue reading >>
AJNR: Changes for 2010
AJNR is constantly changing, many times thanks to suggestions made by our readers and others by decisions taken by myself and the senior editors. These are some of the changes that will happen this year:
Physics review articles: These have been very difficult to obtain despite due diligence of our two physics consultants. More importantly, they have not performed well and have been read, downloaded and quoted a surprisingly small number of times. For the time being we will discontinue them on regular basis and we are in the process of rethinking what would be best way to bring some … Continue reading >>
Podcast #2 Available at AJNR.org
This month’s podcast features Dr. D. Phillips commentaries on the Editor’s and Fellow’s Journal Club choices from the Nov/Dec issue of AJNR. Additionally, after the comment on the first article, Dr. Riina offers his point of view regarding aneurysm embolization with bare platinum coils. This podcast is also available in ITunes. Come back for the next one in mid January!
AJNR Tops List of “Most Read” in mdlinx.com
This week, the most read article in www.mdlinx.com comes from AJNR. This is very nice review article written by our colleagues from Boston Children’s Hospital. What I find very satisfying is that this article has not yet appeared in print and comes from our publication preview section. This is an indication that the electronic journal is becoming more and more popular. The reference is as follows:
D.P. Rodriguez and T.Y. Poussaint. Imaging of Back Pain in Children. AJNR Am. J. Neuroradiol., first published on Nov 19, 2009 as doi: doi:10.3174/ajnr.A1832 … Continue reading >>