Mentor Award Best Paper Presentation

Percutaneous Vertebroplasty: Evaluating the short and long term results for 1000 treated fractures

Kennith F. Layton, M.D., Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

ASSR Member Mentor- Patrick H. Luetmer, M.D.

General Spine

L5 Nerve Sign. Applying the Lessons of Peripheral Neurography to the Conventional Lumbar MRI Scan

Phillip R. Chapman, M.D., Inland Imaging, Otis Orchards, WA

Interventional Spine

A Previously Unreported and Novel Approach to Sacroplasty

Douglas K. Smith, M.D., South Texas Radiology Group, San Antonio, TX

General Spine

Imaging of the Failed Back Syndrome

Phillip M. Young, M.D., Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL

Interventional Spine

Lower Cervical Nerve Root Block using CT Fluoroscopy in Patient with Large Body Habitus: Another Benefit of the Swimmer’s Position

Walter S. Bartynski, M.D., Presbyterian University Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA