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.
Best Paper Presentations
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
Best Scientific Exhibits
General Spine
Imaging of the Failed Back Syndrome
Phillip M. Young, M.D., Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
Interventional Spine
Walter S. Bartynski, M.D., Presbyterian University Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA