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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...
Tag Archives: Editorial aspects
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 >>
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 >>
AJNR Blog Reaches 50,000 Visits!
Eleven months after launching our blog we have reached over 50,000 visits. That is an average of nearly 5,000 monthly visits. Although the numbers of visitors vary day to day, they tend to be higher during workdays than on weekends. On a daily basis I look at the subjects viewed, terms searched and referral sites and have not been able to find a pattern, meaning that our audience interests vary widely. Although I am happy about these statistics, we now need our visitors to shed away their shyness and start contributing. AJNRBLOG is the “living room” of our journal and … Continue reading >>
The Greening of AJNR
Beginning this month AJNR starts its “Go Green” campaign. We ask ASNR members to voluntarily drop their print subscription of AJNR. At AJNR it is our desire to reduce our environmental footprint. Reducing the number of print subscriptions not only saves on the obvious (paper and byproducts of its manufacturing, ink, postage) but in other less visible aspects of its publication (fuel used for trees to travel to mill, from mill to printer and from post office to your mail box).
Reducing print circulation will provide savings intended for expanded electronic features and increasing the contents (page- or number-wise). Going … Continue reading >>
New AJNR Feature: Weekly Question and Poll
Starting Monday, August 31, when you visit AJNR.ORG you will find our new weekly activity: question and poll. Every Monday we will post a new question and our visitors can vote on an answer. These questions will refer to controversial aspects of neuroimaging, many which we face on a daily basis. Once you click on the answer, you should be able to see how the poll is progressing. One week later, we will post the results of the poll for all to see. We will create a repository of these questions/polls which hopefully will give us an idea as to … Continue reading >>
Editor’s and Fellows’ Journal Club Choices, August 2009
Editor’s Choices
Placement of Covered Stents for the Treatment of Direct Carotid Cavernous Fistulas • C. Wang, X. Xie, C. You, C. Zhang, M. Cheng, M. He, H. Sun, and B. Mao
Endovascular treatment of direct carotid cavernous fistulas has been done mostly with balloons (outside of the United States) and coils. With the introduction of flexible covered stents, deployment in vessel curvatures has become possible. In this article, the authors review their experience in the treatment of 10 direct carotid cavernous fistulas with covered stents and provide follow-up (mean, 18 months). Treatments were successful in 9 patients; endoleaks were … Continue reading >>
Relationship Between Quality and Price
I am often asked why can’t AJNR be entirely open access and free for all? There is a direct relationship between quality and freedom of access. To maintain the quality of AJNR we need editors, reviewers, copy editors, high quality paper, mailing materials and websites and obviously all of these cost money. Devotees of “free” fail to see (or deny) the logical relationship between quality and price. In this week’s New Yorker Magazine and today’s e-version of the New York Times this subject is dealt in reviews of a newly published book: Free: The Future of a Radical Price by … Continue reading >>
AJNR’s New Impact Factor: 2.745, A Record High!
Today, the ISI Web of Knowledge released the new Journal Citation Reports which include metrics that analyze the performance of biomedical journals. AJNR’s impact factor went up from 2.338 (last year) to 2.745 with a 5-year I.F. of 3.010. These are the highest impact factors our journal has had. They are a reflection of the high quality of our original articles, great review articles and a decreased number of case reports.… Continue reading >>
Book Reviews to Appear in AJNR and AJNR Blog
I am back from our annual meeting in Vancouver and want to thank all of you who stopped by AJNR’s booth to say hello and give us ideas as to how to continue improving our journal. Based on those comments we will soon start publishing our book reviews in the journal and also in this blog. To preserve their honesty they will continue to be published anonymously. Posting them on this blog will allow the authors to comment back and readers to express their opinions too (a la Amazon). We hope that by doing this, their usefulness will … Continue reading >>