April Madness

Cast your votes for "the best of the best" of JACR articles.

In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast;
In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest;

In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove;
In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

From "Locksley Hall" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Despite what Lord Tennyson tells us, in the spring, many a young person's thoughts turn to basketball, specifically college basketball play-offs, a.k.a. March Madness. Brackets selected, money wagered, surprise upsets featured in headlines. Since I couldn't possibly compete with that in the month of March, I bring you April Madness, in which JACR readers choose between bracket pairs of most read, most cited, and ScienceDirect top 25 JACR articles, until one article emerges as the group favorite.

With so many great JACR articles to pick from, it was no small feat to narrow the crowd down to a manageable eight . (Yes, only eight to start. I've no intention to blog about bracket updates all month.) Vote for your first-round choices below. Then return each day this week to see the previous day's winners and vote in the next round. The overall winner will be posted Monday.

Let's get started! In each of the brackets below, check out the articles and vote for the one you find most valuable. Check back to vote on the next round's picks. At the end of the week, we'll see which article reigns supreme!

Group A = Incidentals 

A-1. Managing Incidental Findings on Abdominal CT: White Paper of the ACR Incidental Findings Committee

A-2. Managing Incidental Thyroid Nodules Detected on Imaging: White Paper of the ACR Incidental Thyroid Findings Committee

Group B = Reducing Radiation and Inappropriate Imaging 

B-1. A Comprehensive CT Dose Reduction Program Using the ACR Dose Index Registry

B-2. Effectiveness of Clinical Decision Support in Controlling Inappropriate Imaging

Group C = Cancer Screening 

C-1. Breast Cancer Screening With Imaging: Recommendations From the Society of Breast Imaging and the ACR on the Use of Mammography, Breast MRI, Breast Ultrasound, and Other Technologies for the Detection of Clinically Occult Breast Cancer

C-2. Performance of ACR Lung-RADS in a Clinical CT Lung Screening Program ​​WINNER!

Group D =Solos (single-author articles) 

D-1. Time Management: A Realistic Approach

D-2. Moreton Lecture: Imaging in the Age of Precision Medicine