Purpose: To assess structural, technical, and communicative aspects of dedicated MR examinations of the prostate (MRP) offered by radiologists in Germany. Materials and Methods: We conducted an eight-item online survey among members of the German Radiology Society (DRG). Radiological institutions were asked about their structure, i.?e., either hospital department (HD) or private practice (PP), number of board-certified radiologists, postal regions, number of MRPs in 2011, MR technology and MR sequences applied, ways to communicate results, and feedback from referring physicians on results of subsequent tests and procedures. Submissions were cleared of redundancies and anonymized. Differences in the number of positive replies to each item were statistically significant at p?0.05 for two-tailed testing in 2x2 tables. Results: The survey represented board-certified radiologists in 128 institutions (63 HDs and 65?PPs) in 67/95 German postal regions (71?%). Almost two-thirds of institutions performed 11?to 50 MRPs in 2011, more often at 1.5?T (116/128, 91?%) than at 3.0?T (36/128, 28?%), and most frequently with surface coils (1.5?T, 88/116, 76?%; 3.0?T, 34/36, 94?%; chi-square, 1.9736, 0.1?
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