At Tuesday's opening ceremony for the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR) annual meeting in Edinburgh, U.K., special prizes were given to the authors of European Radiology's three most pupular recent articles in the subspecialty. Dr. Adrian Dixon, editor in chief of European Radiology, gave prizes for the following articles:
Gold:
A comparison of the accuracy of ultrasound and computed tomography in common diagnoses causing acute abdominal pain
Adrienne van Randen, Wytze Laméris, H. Wouter van Es, et al. Eur Radiol 2011, Vol. 21:7, pp. 1535-1545.
Silver :
Quantification of liver iron content with CT-added value of dual-energy
Michael A Fischer, Caecilia S Reiner, Dimitri Raptis, et al. Eur Radiol 2011, Vol. 21:8, pp. 1727-1732.
Bronze:
Simultaneous assessment of liver volume and whole liver fat content: A step towards one-stop shop preoperative MRI protocol.
Gaspard d'Assignies, Claude Kauffmann, Yvan Boulanger, et al. Eur Radiol 3 Sept. 2010, published online.