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IHE Participates in EU-Level Programmes
The European Commission has made substantial progress driving greater consistency between countries through a number of European- level initiatives and has won support for programmes covering multiple areas of interoperability. A policy recommendation on interoperability for electronic health records combined with a proposed Directive on patients'...
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Philips
Royal Philips Electronics and Electron, a Russian medical equipment manufacturer, announced that they have completed Russia's first installation and clinical validation of a domestically made Computed Tomography (CT) scanner at the Hospital of War Veterans in St. Petersburg. The two companies have received clearance by the appropriate authorities to...
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The Radiological Identity Crisis
Some worrying conclusions can be drawn from the research of Prof. Lorenzo Derchi and his team at the department of radiology in Genoa, Italy, concerning the relationship between radiologists and patients. Paramount to this is their ongoing work exploring not only what patients think of the radiologist, but whether they even recognise which of the medical...
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Managing Distress, Discomfort, and Anxiety in Imaging
It was once thought that physicians become radiologists because they didn't want to interact with their patients. In the joke "How do you hide a 100 dollar bill from a doctor?" the answer pertaining to the radiologist is "You pin it on the patient." But times have changed. Today, radiologists are at the critical interface between diagnosis and treatment,...
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Sustaining the Future of Nuclear Medicine
The Netherlands continues to be at the centre of debate regarding the continued supply of medical isotopes worldwide. Molybdenum-99, the parent generator of technetium- 99m, is a crucial tool used by nuclear medicine departments to pinpoint cancer. The substance is regularly in short supply because only five large commercial producers exist worldwide,...
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New Industry Partnership to Secure Manufacture of Radioisotopes
CEA (The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission), IRE (National Institute for Radioelements, Belgium) and IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A., Belgium), three major industrials in the sector of manufacturing radioisotopes for medical examinations in Europe, have signed an agreement to secure the supply of Technetium (Tc-99m) beyond 2015....
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Last Call for Registration for Management in Radiology!
As previously announced in this journal, Europe's most important management-focused congress for chairmen, senior managers and administrators, radiographic technologists, medical equipment industry personnel and those interested in better managing their role in diagnostic imaging facilities and departments, are welcome to attend the Management in Radiology...
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Philips Introduces Enhanced Cardiac Ultrasound
Philips has announced enhancements to the iE33 xMATRIX cardiac ultrasound system designed to provide a more complete imaging solution for adult echocardiograms. In addition to the ergonomic design of the new X5-1 transducer, which aims to improve comfort and efficiency for the clinician, the system has been developed to help advance patient care by...
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An Overview of the Czech Society of Radiology
History of the Czech Radiological Society The Czech Radiological Society of the "J. E. Purkyne" Czech Medical Association was founded on July 28, 1924 in Prague under the name of the Czechoslovak Society for Röntgenology and Radiology. At the initiation of Pilsen radiologist Dr. Antonin Čipera, and founder Dr. Rudolf Jedlicka, the first Czechoslovak...
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Interview: Radiology in the Czech Republic
Please tell us how you came to work in medical imaging. I come from a family of physicians. My father was a neurologist, my mother was a paediatrician and adolescent physician, my uncle was an ORL specialist, my aunt was a paediatrician and another aunt of mine was a gynaecologist. It was rather a given fact, then, that my future studies would be...
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