• Interview with Prof. J. Zamorano

    Interviewee Prof. Jose L. Zamorano Director Cardiovascular Institute Hospital Clínico San Carlos Madrid, Spain Also, President European Association of Echocardiography [email protected]   With over 190 peer-reviewed publications and an impact factor of over...

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  • Medical Imaging in Croatia: Interventional Radiology

    Author Asst. Prof. Vinko Vidjak Acting Head Clinical Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology University Hospital “Merkur” Zagreb, Croatia [email protected]   Asst. Prof. Vinko Vidjak was the...

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  • Medical Imaging in Croatia: Nuclear Medicine

    Author Asst. Prof. Drazen Huic Head of Department Centre for Radiation Medicine and Protection University Hospital Rebro Zagreb, Croatia [email protected]   Asst. Prof. Drazen Huic, 46, has been working in nuclear medicine since 1991. He is a nuclear medicine specialist and presently...

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  • Louisiana State University Install GE RIS/PACS

    Louisiana State University (LSU) Health System, which includes 10 public hospitals and more than 500 clinics in the area, will deploy GE Healthcare's RIS, PACS and diagnostic reporting system, as part of a 12.5 million dollar contract to create a filmless and paperless central database and radiology image repository for sharing patient imaging. Implementation...

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  • Hypothermia Company Acquired by Philips

    Philips has agreed to acquire the assets of InnerCool Therapies Inc., a therapeutic hypothermia company, and wholly-owned subsidiary of 1 1 Cardium Therapeutics, Inc. It will be acquired in an asset purchase transaction for 11.25 million dollars, and the transfer of around 1.5 million dollars in trade payables. The transaction will reinforce Philips’...

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  • Managing Medical Imaging Appointments

    Authors Dr. Sylvia Neuenschwander G. Scamps A. Livartowski Ph. Rizand Medical Imaging Department Curie Institute Paris, France sylvia.neuenschwander@ curie.net Case Study - The Curie Institute The Curie Institute enjoys a relatively privileged situation, as a medium-sized establishment, with an efficient computer system, a large...

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  • Radiation Exposure in Computed Radiography

    How Can Patients be Protected? exposure and therefore is of international concern. Even the lowest amount of exposure to ionising radiation has some risk. According to Prasad et al. (2004), accurately determining radiation-induced cancer risk in humans is difficult due to biological variability, environment, and lifestyle related factors. Consensus...

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  • Interview With Dr. Jorg F. Debatin

    Prof. Dr. Jörg F. Debatin, 47, is medical director and CEO of the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf since 2003. Here, the author of 30 reviews, 6 books, 1,000 scientific presentations, and more than 300 invited lectures, and former radiology department leader tells us about life as hospital CEO. We also learn about the five-year restructuring...

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  • Overview of Healthcare in Poland

    Portrait of a System Under Pressure The Republic of Poland is the largest country in central and eastern Europe, in terms of both population (38.2 million) and area (312,685 km2). In 1989, Poland was the first country among the central and eastern European countries to re-establish democracy after 44 years of communist rule. After a severe economic...

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  • The Contribution of Poland to Radiology

    A Snapshot of its Pioneers and Inventors The first news about Konrad Wilhelm Roentgen's great discovery in Poland was published by Kraków-based daily "Time" as early as January 8, 1896. Soon the first experiments with x-rays were begun. In Kraków between January 8 and 15, 1896 the Jagiellonian University professor of chemistry Karol Olszewski,...

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