Welcome to the Journal of Global Radiology
‘Global radiology’ is a new concept – a subspecialty of radiology that includes much more than diagnosticians and interventionists. It consists of an international community of individuals, groups and...
View ArticleImplementing Diagnostic Imaging Services in a Rural Setting of Extreme...
Introduction: Diagnostic radiology services are severely lacking in many rural settings and the implementation of these services poses complex challenges. The purpose of this paper is to describe the...
View ArticleMagnetic Resonance Cholangiopancreatography in 3 Tesla: 2D MRCP versus 3D...
Purpose: Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) is an established technique for the evaluation of intra- and extrahepatic bile ducts in patients with known or suspected hepatobiliary...
View ArticleBook Review: Radiology in Global Health
This book review examines Mollura and Lungren’s (eds.) Radiology in Global Health: Strategies, Implementation, and Applications (2014). The contributors have attempted to investigate root causes for...
View ArticleImaging in the Land of 1000 Hills: Rwanda Radiology Country Report
Rwanda is an equatorial country in central Africa (Figure 1), and part of the East African Community of Burundi, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. It is a small country, just over 10,000 square miles. Its...
View ArticleJournal of Global Radiology, Volume 1 Issue 1 (March 2015)
Full issue of Volume 1, Issue 1 (March 2015) of the Journal of Global Radiology. Articles are available individually at http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jgr/vol1/iss1/.
View ArticleBreast Ultrasound Following a Positive Clinical Breast Examination: Does It...
Purpose: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide, with an estimated 1.7 million new cases occurring in 2012. The majority of cases and deaths occur in low- and middle-income...
View ArticleImaging in the Khmer’s Land: Cambodia Country Report
Cambodia is located in Southeast Asia on the Indochina Peninsula and borders Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and the Gulf of Thailand (Figure 1). With a total area of 69,898 square miles and population of...
View ArticleMeeting Report: 2015 Scientific Meeting of the Pan Arab Interventional...
The second Annual Scientific Meeting of the Pan Arab Interventional Radiology Society (PAIRS), held March 12-14, 2015, was a step above the inaugural edition, and opened new concepts for development.
View ArticleUsing Village Health Teams for Effective Ultrasound Education in Rural Uganda
Maternal and child health conditions, many of which can be detected by ultrasound, represent the highest burden of disease in Uganda. Imaging the World (ITW) is a not-for-profit organization which...
View ArticlePACS for the Developing World
Digital imaging is now firmly ensconced in the developed world. Its widespread adoption has enabled instant access to images, remote viewing, remote consultation, and the end of lost or misplaced...
View ArticleDiagnostic Radiology in Liberia: A Country Report
Liberia is a tropical country located south of the Sahara Desert in coastal West Africa. It lies at 6 °30’ North Latitude and 9° 30’ West Longitude and is bordered by Guinea, Cote d’Ivoire, Sierra...
View ArticleThe Logistics of Bringing Imaging to the World
The current issue of the Journal of Global Radiology (JGR) covers a range of topics that fall within the sub-specialty of global radiology. Original articles, country reports, and a conference report...
View ArticlePilot Study of a Resource-Appropriate Strategy for Downstaging Breast Cancer...
Breast cancer incidence and mortality are rapidly increasing in low- and middle-income countries like Uganda. Shifting the proportion of women presenting with late-stage breast cancer to early-stage...
View ArticleUltrasound-guided Intralesional Bleomycin Injection (IBI) for Treatment of...
Purpose: To report the therapeutic outcome of ultrasound-guided intralesional injection of bleomycin in the treatment of cutaneous hemangiomas and vascular malformations. Material & Methods: The...
View ArticleGestational Age Estimation Based on Fetal Pelvimetry on Fetal Ultrasound in...
Ultrasound is an integral part of obstetric practice, and assessment of gestational age (GA) is a central element of obstetric ultrasonography. Sonographic estimation of GA is derived from...
View ArticleRadiology and Global Health: The Case for a New Subspecialty
In high- and medium-income countries, the use of radiology has grown substantially in the last several decades. But in the developing world, access to medical imaging remains a critical problem....
View ArticleImaging in the Lion City: Singapore Radiology Country Report
Singapore is a small tropical island city-state with limited natural resources that has achieved remarkable healthcare outcomes through effective long-term planning and judicious investment in human...
View ArticleEvaluating Factors Affecting Clinicians’ Knowledge on Contrast Media: Kenyan...
Purpose: Our study aimed to establish exposure to and level of knowledge about contrast media among non-radiological clinicians and evaluate the contributory factors to the status. Methods and...
View ArticleInterventional Radiology Readiness Assessment Tool for Global Health
The Interventional Radiology Readiness Assessment Tool for Global Health is a new tool to methodically evaluate the environment of a medical institution for interventional radiology services given the...
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