• Challenges for Healthcare & ICU Management in Bulgaria

    Nikolay Petrov, MD Associate Professor Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Meicine Military Medical Academy Sofia, Bulgaria [email protected] Also, President of Society of Anaesthesiologists in Bulgaria President of BULSPEN (Bulgarian Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition) Stefan Bakalov, MD Department of...

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  • World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB)

    The 13th Congress of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB) is the joint meeting of the 23rd Congress of the European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB) and the 35th joint meeting of the Austrian (ÖGUM), German (DEGUM) and Swiss (SGUM) Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine. Here, IMAGING...

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  • Upcoming Seminars in Medical Imaging From Across The Globe

    NOVEMBER 2011 27 – 02 RSNA 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting The Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Chicago, USA http://rsna2011.rsna.org/ BC   DECEMBER 2011 04 – 06 Innovations in Cardiovascular Interventions Tel Aviv, Israel http://www.icimeeting.com 07 – 12 EUROECHO...

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  • Controversies in Mammographic Screening

    Author Prof. Per Skaane Breast Imaging Centre Department of Radiology, Oslo University Hospital Ullevaal, University of Oslo Oslo, Norway [email protected] Breast cancer screening has proved to be effective in reducing mortality, and many experts consider mammographic screening to be one of the major medical...

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  • Responding to U.S. Guidelines Against Routine Screening in the 40 – 49 Age Group

    Author Dr. Jan H. Wong Division of Surgical Oncology,Brody School of Medicine East Carolina University Greenville, North Carolina [email protected] Over the last two decades, convincing evidence has emerged that mammographic screening has contributed to a significant reduction in breast cancer mortality. Mammographic screening...

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  • ESR Publishes Position Paper on Image Compression

    The European Society of Radiology (ESR) has published a position paper on the "Usability of irreversible image compression in radiological imaging". This paper is the result of a groundbreaking Expert Panel Session, held prior to the Management in Radiology (MIR) Annual Scientific Congress last year in Mallorca. Each year, a select number of experts...

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  • Does CAD Provide an Alternative to Double Reading?

    Interviewee Carla Guerriero Research Fellow in Health Economics John Cairns Health Service Research and Policy Department London School of Hygiene and Topical Medicine London, UK Fiona j. Gilbert Maureen GC Gilian Aberdeen, Biomedical Imaging Centre Lilian Sutton Building,University of Aberdeen Aberdeen, UK Mathew G....

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  • Automating Tissue-Based Breast Cancer Diagnostics

    Authors Manfred Dietel Director of the Institute of Pathology Frederick Klauschen Institute of Pathology Charite,University of Charite Berlin Berlin, Germany Its reliance on biomarker evaluation for diagnosis and treatment decisions makes breast cancer care a good example of personalised medicine. In addition...

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  • Technology Horizons: Digital Radiography

      The emergence of digital radiography has altered the face of radiography in the recent past. It has offered a new standard for digital x-ray image capture. DR technology has brought about a transition from film-based image capture to direct digital image capture that can be previewed immediately after exposure. This optimised workflow provided by...

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  • EU’S MEDRAPET Project to Hold 2012 Workshop: Places Limited

    As previously reported in this journal (News: Vol. 11, Iss. 2), the European Commission recently launched the MEDRAPET (MEDical- RAdiation Protection Education and Training) project to assess the implementation of the Medical Exposure Directive provisions related to radiation protection education and training of medical professionals in the EU Member...

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