In a survey of 254 hospital radiology departments conducted last year, Dallas-based U.S. Radiology Partners (USRP), a radiology management firm, found that 45 percent of hospitals are understaffed in radiology. Fifty-six percent of hospital radiology department heads surveyed by USRP indicated that staffing shortages were diminishing the quality of care their departments are able to provide. Mo...

Vasco Herédia1,2, Miguel Ramalho1,3, Sérgio Duarte4, Rafael O.P. de Campos1, Mateus Hernandez1, Nuno Jalles Tavares5 and Richard C. Semelka1 1Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, 2Department of Radiology, Hospital Espírito Santo, Évora, 3Department of Radiology, Hospital Garcia de Orta, Lisbon, 4Department of Radiology, Hospital da Luz, Lisbon, 5Cas...

078 Image Fusion with PET and MRI: A New Modality in Evaluation of Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcoma Annika Eigtved1, Helle W Hendel1, Markus Nowak1, Karl Erik Jensen2, Soeren Daugaard3, John Gregor Pedersen4, Catherine Rechnitzer5, Carsten Thomsen2, Birthe H Pedersen2, Anders Krarup-Hansen5 1PET & Cyclotron Unit, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2Dept. of Radiology, Rigshospitalet, C...

A 38-year-old Bangladeshi male presented to the Emergency Room with acute confusional state for 3 days, constitutional symptoms for 3 months and testicular mass for 2 months. Clinical examination revealed that he was febrile, confused, agitated with normal cranial nerves, normal motor system with bilateral down going planters, and there were no cerebeller sign. Systemic examination showed no ly...

monte carlo method is a very accurate method to optimize medical diagnostic radiology spectra and simulation of radiation transportation. using mcnp code, radiology and mammography attenuated x-rayspectraweresimulated.the ipem report number 78 was used as a reference to compare with the geant4 and mcnp simulations because of its popularity and wide availability. the results of geant4 in 40kev s...

background x-ray, is one of the oldest, and yet the most widely used form of medical photographing. x-ray is a valuable tool to diagnose and examine many diseases such as arthritis, spinal injuries, pneumonia, bronchitis and even cancer. running a quality control program of the radiology devices can reduce the absorbed dose in the patients. the aim of this study is to take the quality control t...

PURPOSE We aimed to quantify and compare awareness regarding radiation dose reduction within the interventional radiology and diagnostic radiology communities. METHODS Abstracts accepted to the annual meetings of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR), the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE), the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), and the...

INTRODUCTION This study compares the attitudes between preclinical and clinical medical students towards radiology, following the introduction of a new radiology curriculum for 1st year students. MATERIALS AND METHODS Revision of the 1st year medical school curriculum for the academic year of 2008/9 with the inclusion of 13 one-hour formal radiology lectures integrated with each body system w...

Affiliations 1 Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany 2 Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt 3 Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital, Alexandria, Egypt 4 Department of Radiology, University Hospital Cairo, Egypt 5 Department of Otolaryngology, Univers...