November 2011 Blog Posts (7)

Check out Dr. Dalai's PACS Blog post on the RSNA 2011 Flash Mob - as he mentioned, it "actually went down" - here is the video also in case you missed it.

CHICAGO—N. Reed Dunnick, M.D., was named chairman of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Board of Directors today at the Society's annual meeting in Chicago.

Dr. Dunnick is the Fred Jenner Hodges Professor and chair of the Department of Radiology at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor, Mich., where he has been since 1992.

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Brainlab will launch its cloud-based image sharing and clinical planning platform at RSNA 2011.

VoyantLink allows users to access images from the cloud, as well as employ clinical planning tools. It’s more than just transferring images through the cloud, said Marc Mackey, general manager of Voyant Health, noting the company’s long history of developing treatment software for subspecialists.

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Reston, VA (Nov. 15, 2011) — The Image Gently® campaign and the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) have launched the “Go With the Guidelines” campaign to encourage community hospitals, academic hospitals and clinics to observe new North American Guidelines for Nuclear Medicine Radiopharmaceutical Dose in children. The dose recommendations, calculated on a ‘straight’ weight basis, have been tested in children’s hospitals and are compatible with high-quality imaging and further dose reduction…

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Reston, VA (November 7, 2011) — The Board of Directors of the American College of Radiology’s Radiology Leadership Institute™ (RLI) recently laid the foundation for radiology’s first professional development and leadership academy by establishing the RLI Common Body of Knowledge™ (CBK). The RLI CBK provides the framework for delivery of multi-level, in-depth instruction in critical leadership areas, including:

• Finance and Economics Ethics and Professionalism Legal and…

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The UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging is seeking a faculty member for our Abdominal Imaging and Nuclear Medicine Sections. The ideal candidate will be fellowship trained in both Abdominal Imaging and Nuclear Medicine and will be appointed at the level of Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in the In- Residence, Clinical X or HSC Clinical series, depending upon qualifications.



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"We can't x-ray him, he's too big!"...This was a statement I had from a radiology student earlier today when approached with an abdominal x-ray on a morbidly obese patient. My answer? "Too bad, figure it out". Yes, the patient was on the upper end of 400 pounds, and yes, he was extremely difficult to radiograph, however, it had to be done. All too often a student (or even a seasoned technologist for that matter) will come to wits end on a proper approach to imaging the morbidly obese, and… Continue