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Message from the Editor-in-Chief
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John French
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3
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Message du Rédacteur en Chef
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John French
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4
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Advance Care Planning: What's All the Talk About?
Abstract: The ethics of honouring an individual's wishes for health care are clear and unequivocal in health care literature and policy. Yet health care providers are often unsure how to proceed, both...
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Sue Grant,
Doris Barwich,
Joan L. Rush,
Carolyn Tayler
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5-10
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Advance Directives in Canada: An Ethical Imperative in a Legal Morass
Abstract: Canadian health care providers acknowledge the ethical imperative to follow patients' advance directives for medical treatment. However, fear that advance directives diminish regard for the ...
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Joan L. Rush
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11-22
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New and Uncharted Territory: Integrative Medicine in the Medical Radiation Sciences
Abstract: Integrative medicine, or the varied combination of conventional biomedicine with “complementary/alternative medicine” (CAM), has emerged recently as an important aspect of cancer care. Calle...
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Daniel Hollenberg,
Bonnie Cowan,
Noel Wright
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23-30
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Working Alone in MRI? Policies to Reduce Risk when Working Alone in the MRI Environment
Abstract: Working alone in MRI is an uneasy reality for an MRI technologist. Regardless of geographical location, facility type or size, most technologists will find themselves working alone at some p...
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Lisa Marie Pyke
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31-36
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3 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)—Is it Ready for Prime Time Clinical Applications?
Abstract: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has advanced as one of the major tools for diagnostic imaging. The current benchmark in clinical imaging continues to be 1.5 T scanners. This review article ...
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Jonathan W.K. Lee,
Steven P. Shannon
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37-50
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Nephrogenic Fibrosing Dermopathy/Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis (NFD/NSF) and Gadolinium-Based Magnetic Resonance Contrast Agents (GBMCAs): A Literature Review
Abstract: Health Canada and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States have recently issued warnings pertaining to the use of gadolinium-based magnetic resonance contrast agents in pa...
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Sonja K. Robb-Belville
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51-55
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Developing Advanced Practice: Face the Issues, Find the Solutions
Abstract: Successful human resource innovation in the cancer care sector must be compatible with the key objectives of decreasing wait times, increasing access and improving the health of our citizens...
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Nicole Harnett
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56-60
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Justice and Equity in Canadian Health Policy Reform
Abstract: Health care services have the potential to impact the lives of citizens. The institutions that distribute them are therefore open to evaluation from the perspective of justice. Health care r...
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John Hubert
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61-66
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