The field of interventional radiology is currently at a crossroads. The position and role of the future interventionalist will be defined by the direction taken by the current generation of practitioners. There are four key issues that must be dealt with: (i) the dichotomous relationship between diagnostic and interventional radiology, (ii) the idea of the "hired gun" interventionalist versus t...

Nowadays, interventional procedures have been opened new horizons in the medicine. They constitute wide spectrum procedures from diagnosis to treatment in different medical disciplines. Various tissue samplings, specific intravascular samplings, different intravascular interventions in central and peripheral vascular systems for congenital and acquired vascular pathologies and complications [in...

THE Standards Division of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) recently created the Emerging Technologies Workgroup of the Technology Assessment Committee for the “dissemination of knowledge of groundbreaking information to potential researchers in interventional radiology.” Committee members are requested to determine new technologies and innovations that may become of particular impo...

Quantification of periarticular demineralization in rheumatoid arthritis by digital X-ray radiogrammetry (DXR) and peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT) D.M. Renz, A. Pfeil, A. Hansch, G. Wolf , J. Böttcher Charité University Medicine Berlin, Department of Radiology, Berlin, Germany Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Department of Internal Medicine III, Jena, Germany Friedrich-Sch...